A month of actual coding, shift to Mastodon, 100 daily pushups, 2 days out in London, new coaching opportunities, random EM connections and plenty TV time.
Make
- Migrated Make Life Work from WordPress to 11ty on Netlify as a cost reduction and technical knowledge exercise
- Tidied up the navigation and footer links on this website
- Rewind to FHF43 on House Finesse plus another guest mix from Sarah Jae
- One final tweet on my 16th anniversary following the Musk takeover chaos
- Setup our own Mastodon instance with @Adrian at managingengineers.net
- Created Mastodon accounts for Make Life Work, Derby County, House Finesse and One Phat DJ
- Started plans for a new mixed format for Make Life Work podcast (based on listener feedback)
- Renewed unstyled.com for the 19th year
- Added Barry White, disco classics, Jungle Brothers, Junior Jack, Dimitri From Paris and Freestylers to The Archive Collection
- Created Trakt to Google Sheet and Micro feed to Mastodon IFTTT recipes
- Downgraded from Trello Standard (due to unused features) and cancelled Dropbox Pro with all files now in iCloud
Life
- Completed November’s 100 daily push up challenge for Cancer Research, raising over £200 in the process and now able to complete 50 in one rep
- Enjoyed BBC’s Children In Need special matinee of Disney’s Frozen musical in London
- Educational trip to London’s Imperial War Museum for a family birthday
- Visited sixth form options for The Boy’s media studies including Leamington Spa college
- Failed to sell the Smart car to Webuyanycar with them asking us for £50 (to settle the finance agreement)
- Gave blood for the first time in over 3 years, apparently my O Neg is in high demand, but for fifth time overall
- Struggled through a long Winter flu, wiping me out of work for 2 days and pushup challenge for 3
Work
- Authentic Listening training with people around the company, finding an accountability partner in Fleur
- Kicked off EM Development initiative, to identify and provide structure for EM’s career growth
- Started the Coaching Professional Level 5 apprenticeship with a cohort of fellow EM’s
- Lightning Talks from Lewis on growing an Instagram following and myself on why Mastodon
- Contributed my first .NET PR towards the new Engineering Competency Framework project
- Helped Simon and Manni introduce PETALS to their engineering teams as the framework gains further interest
- Spoke to Dionne at TfL about mentoring more diversity into tech
- Spoke to Sophie at What3Words through the Supermanagers Slack coffee roulette
Read
Watched
- The Devil’s Hour on Prime
- The Elon Musk Show on BBC
- Stuck on BBC
- The Horne Section TV Show on All4
- SAS: Rogue Heroes on BBC
- Welcome to Wrexham on DisneyPlus
- Tokyo Vice (Ep 1 & 2) on BBC
- The Goes Wrong Show on Prime