Week Notes 24#45

A busy week at work with post-incident follow-ups and an incredible downer in the US Elections.

• Got a haircut ahead of the few big meetings this week
• And somehow ended up stepping on one of my hairs, which was painful, hard to find and definitely a "huh, how could that even happen" but 🤷🏼
• The build-up for the week led to Wednesday, where I was presenting about last week's incident, which led to a spike in my heartrate
  • Went well though, and all the prep paid off, as well as being a very good opportunity for being a very highly visible opportunity to show my great communication
• Finally got around to watching Sebastian's talk and it was a great talk as well as having a couple of shout outs 🙌🏼
• Feeling run-down, especially on/after Wednesday, and feeling the stress of the incident onwards, and some general burnout
• Been very happy with Morph being in the living room, and the two little ones coexisting 🥰 he's also been coming in when we're not around (but leave it open for him) and he's been much more resilient to Cookie's sometimes
• Hit my 14th anniversary on LinkedIn 😱
• Booked a spa day for Friday 💆🏼 It's my Shut It Down Day and so we're taking a well deserved spa day off
• Ahead of Joe, my new manager, starting tomorrow, I've been updating my Manual of Me
• Had a very good Rakki Rakkas
• Also had a very good Chick n Shakes today
• The OpenUK Digital Meetup was very good - both Ana and Calum were great speakers, we had a good amount of attendees, and good post-event discussion on Slack
• Alexa's had an update that's broken the "what's the time" functionality, which is wild
• Carol came round to pick up the desk, and had a nice catch up with her and Dougie
• Dropping Anna off in West Bridgford was weird without Waze, as neither of our phones would connect
• Tried GitHub Copilot for the first time
  • As I'd seen someone noting that Open Source maintainers can get it free (and I'm one of the eligible ones)
  • it helped a little on my skippedReason blog, but didn't use it too much
• Firefox Nightly Android app has restored the long-press functionality, thankfully
• In Apex Legends, playing Launch Royale has been a somewhat fun reminder of how broken a number of things used to be, and am enjoying the "gifts from the rift"
• Got info about my annual stock grant, and very happy - it's not yet on my /salary/ page, but it will be when I've had it confirmed I'm getting it (mid December, as far as I remember). Drop me a DM on Slack if you're interested to chat ahead of then
• As Roy Tang wrote about the incredibly disappointing results in the US Election:

The USA has once again failed an IQ test. Donald Trump will be their next president. The world braces for things to come.

In dependency-management-data:

• More progress towards renovate-packagedata-diff, renamed from renovate-packagedump-diff, but still not quite happy to get it merged
• Wrote a post on skippedReason, after spending some time trying to get it working with jq / Ruby
• Toying with not deduplicating rows in renovate
• Upgraded renovate-graph to support Renovate v39 - which came out last week

Watched:

• Two Broke Girls
• Saturday Night Live (on YouTube)