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weeknotes 17: drift limits

let's get the not particularly humble brag out of the way: i spent friday afternoon driving supercars around a track. so for christmas my parents got me a Virgin Experiences voucher to go abseil down the big red spindly sculpture thing in Olympic Park. except when i tried

weeknotes 16: loose fruit

i fixed the rss feed url, you're welcome all you rss nerds. i left my fan at the studio on friday. today was the hottest day of the year. i was surprised by the rain but at least surely it would make the heat more bearable. did it

weeknotes 13: five dermatologists

oh wow it’s actually joever, didn’t see that coming. we’ve been trying to diagnose a Weird Problem at work, the kind you’d see in breathless Medium posts or SCP containment reports. me, Ivo and Rowan had each spent a few days trying to understand what was

weeknotes #2: a real burger made out of cow

1. i went to the office, and it was normal * i went to the office, and it was normal? * i've gotten weirdly good at self-administering a lateral flow test * Kara Brightwell: skilled at scraping her own tonsils, and inserting things too far up her nostrils * imagine showing that

weeknotes #1: fried liver attack

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

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