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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.
not these ones tbh. i was too excited and forgot to be taking photos or video of the actual cars or driving 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 to book it it was was no longer available. i was able to exchange the voucher for another Experience, and looking down the list it was like:
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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 fuck
i had an angry couple of days on wednesday and thursday. i don’t know why. i’m sorry everyone, you didn’t deserve it.
good news: my work private health insurance covers shooting me in the face with lasers to the tune of twelve and a half grand. bad news: they have some specific laser shooty face people who are not the people who have been shooting me in the face with lasers for the last five years. i will miss you
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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 going on before getting burnt out, and the CDN support engineers were clueless.
on tuesday i got everyone together around the breakout area table in the office, trying out stupid things like editing the CDN config live to add more logging and point it to a temporary app i wrote and deployed in five minutes to log full request details we weren’t getting from the CDN logs themselves. by the end of the day things were pointing to the WAF as the culprit. the next day we narrowed it down with the help of a WAF support engineer to the WAF’s CDN loop detection (crucially not the CDN’s CDN loop detection, which we’d already configured our way around).
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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 my to myself eighteen months ago
- she’d probably go “oh okay so, uh, ‘Kara’, i see, that’s a thing we did, okay. wanna make out”
- i had a desk assigned to me, and it was by a window, and it was in a building that isn’t my flat, and i got to go there and not be in the same 46m² forever
- i saw like. twenty people. in an office that has capacity for like fifteen hundred.
- i had a burger, a real burger made out of cow, from a fast food restaurant, with cheesy fries
- it was so normal!
- this is genuinely the best thing i’ve been able to do for my mental health during the entire panettone
- i’m going back like. twice a week now, fuck it
2. trying not to burn out
- even though i quit therapy a while ago it turns out i have a tiny simulated version of my therapist in my head now that says things like “be kind to yourself” and “what makes you say that” and “you don’t have to feel like this”
- so last week when i wrote “holy shit i’m burning out” it turns out that wasn’t a self deprecating joke, and i actually need to do something about it?
- which i noticed immediately after writing that post, and requested access to the office, and a bunch of fridays off
- doing normal things, which i have not done in some time, is helping reset my brain
- also taking time off and not giving myself pressure to achieve things(? what), good for my energy turns out?
- and i’m going camping in two weeks now and not having any internet and cooking fish on charcoal
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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 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