Week Notes 23#10

• Was fighting for top place in AdVenture Capitalist on Monday, but didn't quite get the top spot
• Finally gotten around to reading ADHD 2.0, which was recommended to me when I first announced my diagnosis
  • Managed to finish it in the day 😅 Yay for 2x speed
  • While listening to it, I then started thinking about how books-mf2 wasn't up and running (as it was still on the Heroku free tier, and therefore not running) and so would need to replatform it before I finished reading, because I wouldn't ever want to be unable to track my activities exactly
• Replatformed books-mf2 to Fly.io and rewrote it in Go
  • Gave me a good chance to play around with Chi instead of my usual gorilla/mux, as I wanted a chance to play around with a Go net/http compatible router, instead of something like Echo or Gin
• Was very interesting listening to the latest Go Time
  • Spent a lot of the time thinking about how great it all sounded and that I wish I had tooling like that, and ideating how I'd end up building it myself
• Done a bit of publicising of DMD this week, hoping to get a bit more usage of it
• Cookie's been barking at / trying to open the cat flap
• Morph's been very good at coming into the living room this week, even after Cookie chases him away
  • He's been enjoying coming in through his secret door
  • Had my lunch with him on Wednesday while Cookie was at her playdate
• Had some very cute cuddles with Cookie, a few times on my office sofa 🥰
• While Anna was on a work trip, I was solo parenting with Cookie
  • Was mostly an OK week, considering Cookie's claw was still recovering and she wasn't able to go out on long walks, and then we had a tonne of snow 🌨 that meant she couldn't go out much ...
  • ... not least because she then hurt her paw later in the week 😳 And it's still recovering, but she seems to be doing better
  • We think it was Cookie's first experience of snow, because she was perplexed by the concept of it, but at least I managed to get some good videos of how cute she was with it
  • Cookie had a play date with Nelly which was very appreciated
  • Ended up getting 0 takeaways while Anna was gone, which was not like me - I'd ended up getting all 4 Goustos, and a rack of ribs from Asda on Sunday, so there was a tonne of food to make. Managed to make it work by cooking in evenings and having leftovers for lunch, after Monday I cooked at lunch and found it a bit tight for time
• Got a little bit nerd sniped by working out how to work out if Twilio tokens are still active
• Had some very cute Friday morning cuddles with Cookie since Anna was back
• Accidentally locked Morph in the dining room on Friday, so couldn't make it to get his lunch 😅
• Played some Jackbox at work for our Friday board games session which was fun
• Caught Morph licking Cookie's head yesterday which was very cute
• Handed over Renovate and Dependency Management Data at work, which I've been planning to do for a while, and glad to have had it done. Spent a good chunk of time prepping for handovers, and feel like it helped get my thoughts in order too
  • Also good future proofing for making sure that Product Security have some experience managing it if I do end up being made redundant 😬
• "The date" for finding out if I will be made redundant has slipped from 20th March to 22nd March, which is a bit frustrating
• Been interesting thinking abaout how it's been 3 years since the start of COVID lockdowns, and interesting to read back Week Notes 20#11 and Week Notes 20#12
• Had a bit of a panic that I'd not written last week's notes, or that I'd missed a week, but turns out the dates were just confusing
• Got around to some maintenance for cucumber-reporting-plugin, after spotting an issue from a month ago of someone asking about updates, and spent a bit of time trying to work out why the upgrade to the latest version of Cucumber failed
• Made a few tweaks to renovate-graph
• Got our first Easter egg from Lidl 😋
• After a couple of months of our posters being ready to put up, we finally got around to putting them up
• Been feeling a bit ill this weekend, hoping that we're not coming down with another case of COVID, and that it's just a bad cold
• Cooked for lunch today 😱
• Had a few emails this week about various things based off my blog, and was cool to chat to a few folks about different things
• Saw Stimagz on TikTok, and they seem pretty cool, so I've ordered a set to see what they're like 👀
• Our neurodiversity community at work is thriving more than usual, which is really lovely 💜

Watched:

• Superstore
• Star Trek: Deep Space 9
• Back to Life
• The Mandalorian

Reading:

• ADHD 2.0
• unmasking Autism