1. WOW I HAVEN’T BLOGGED IN A WHILE
- hahaha funny ironic meta blogging joke
2. okay so i’m the Tech Lead of the FT.com Platforms Team now, what’s up with that
- my(!) team solves common developer problems so every other team can spend time doing not that
- we own a lot of stuff, like seventy repositories out of the three hundred ish in the Customer Products group
- we’re a fairly new team, there were predecessor teams but basically none of the knowledge about what we own has survived
- we’ve got a lot of catching up to do! we started rewriting our documentation last year and we have a hitlist of what knowledge we’re missing
- but also we’ve jumped in the deep end with a beeg rewrite of the FT.com developer tooling
- the line i use in presentations is “they’re used literally every day by literally every developer in Customer Products, and they’re broken”
- they’re actually public, that’s odd
- this week is the second “mob programming” week we’ve done on this project
- we cancelled all our meetings
- we set some goals
- we worked on VS Code Live Share (for a couple of hours at a time! pairing is exhausting, remote pairing is gggggggggggg)
- we’ve written more than a thousand fucking lines of code with three developers in one week, what the heck
- find out next time on dragonball z
3. i am burning out holy shit
- holy shit, i’m burning out
- may day bank holiday soon
- going camping soon
- need some time off wow
4. i saw some friends, irl
- okay so that was like two weeks ago fine okay
- i went to Flat Iron Square with chee and Rowan and Jake and KJ
- i got very drunk and we went and made music in a park
- also i finally signed 2 Deed 2 Poll. now to send it to literally everybody that might have ever heard my name in the last two years
5. okay so speaking of music
- i’ve gotten big into Eurorack in the last year
- i put together a little, USB powered case a while ago and i’ve been slowly filling it with modules
- recently i outgrew it, and also little portable case obviously needs to be for generative ambient, so i started planning a bigger desktop case in like November
- i finished it last week!!!
- i mean wow look at that thing. i made an Object
6. i got mildly good at chess
- i’ve got a 700~ Rapid rating babes
- e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc5 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 6. exd5 Nxd5 7. Nxf7 Kxf7 8. Qf3+ Kg8 9. Bxd5+ Qxd5 10. Qxd5+ Be6 11. Qxe6# is the only correct game of chess. every other game is a shitty imitation of that
- im actually kind of bad if you don’t cooperate with my Fried Liver Attack or Stafford Gambit okay