Weeknotes
- Weeknotes #109
- Two hours on the tarmac, Vin Diesel at 30,000ft, time limits, the tale of Jaden's iPad, and an imagined father of two.
- Weeknotes #108
- The one name policy, hinge bits, thermal cut-outs, setting sand, and an unexploded bomb.
- Weeknotes #107
- The big city, the world of Home Assistant, and slow CI builds.
- Weeknotes #106
- Dietary advice, Ray Mears, and Rakefiles.
- Weeknotes #105
- Between two birthdays, repairing plastic, 113 individual checks, and overenthusiastic bots.
- Weeknotes #104
- The Lake District, highly polished balls of mud, The Good Life, and averting Lego-based catastrophe on the motorway.
- Weeknotes #103
- Travelling to Brighton, migrating to Porkbun, and self-hosting GitHub Actions runners.
- Weeknotes #102
- Another holiday, a cousin calculator, the dangers of i-SPY, the inhumanity of siblings, and avoiding thinking about computers.
- Weeknotes #101
- A trip abroad, winding up my company, hearing aids and failing to discipline.
- Weeknotes #100
- Self-hosting Mastodon, MIME negotiation for Rails APIs take two and tooting with abandon.
- Weeknotes #99
- Pulling keycaps, a refactoring wishlist and the virtue of leaving jobs.
- Weeknotes #98
- Hosting YARD documentation on GitHub Pages, pattern matching and the IKEA nesting instinct.
- Weeknotes #97
- Not saving money on a Sonos Port, an update to re2 and telling a lie.
- Weeknotes #96
- Fewer pills, more ducks, being wrong about database transactions, scratching someone else’s car and carpet fitting.
- Weeknotes #95
- Weeding, filing, finishing video games, a spa town called home, parenting hell and a butt full of rain.
- Weeknotes #94
- Birthdays.
- Weeknotes #93
- Soldering remote control cars, emotional furniture, noodling with Tailscale, finishing The Last of Us Part II and the relationship between pasta and running.
- Weeknotes #92
- Testing negative, a leaky gutter, failing to block YouTube videos, compressing assets with Propshaft and recording video game sounds with OBS.
- Weeknotes #91
- Testing positive.
- Weeknotes #90
- MIME negotiation and the Accept header in Rails APIs, detecting client disconnects and the guilty pleasure of action films.
- Weeknotes #89
- Improved lighting, de-duplicating photos in Shortcuts, sourdough variations, rusty Clojure and too many YouTube videos.
- Weeknotes #88
- A seemingly impossible puzzle, avoiding lost updates, fridge drains and draughts.
- Weeknotes #87
- Types of ambulance, expecting the worst, someone else doing a better job, reverse engineering a nursery app and immense satisfaction.
- Weeknotes #86
- Archiving recipes, making family tech support less frustrating, the kindness of neighbours and migrating away from Sprockets and Webpacker.
- Weeknotes #85
- A stack of books, YouTube weaning, Treat Days and exactly one weather app.
- Weeknotes #84
- Correcting mistakes, end-of-year podcast episodes, the best loaves yet, house pride and why you should have some Steri-Strips in your first aid kit.
- 2021 Yearnotes
- Another year of notes.
- Weeknotes 109
- Switching to Apple Silicon, focus, securing wall plugs and needing a cuddle.
- Weeknotes 108
- Nuzzling, replacing Enzyme, Tailwind CSS and our current TV rotation.
- Weeknotes 105–107
- A future gourmand, skipping a generation, HTTP headers and a backlog of Starmix.
- Weeknotes 95–104
- Numbering, a false start to a holiday, learning CSS, moving S3 static websites and an end to DIY.
- Weeknotes 83–94
- The past twelve weeks in summary.
- Weeknotes 80–82
- Legally baht ’at, checklists, vaccinations and the Will of the Wisps.
- Weeknotes 79
- Watermarking PDFs, alarming conditionals and other Computation Clubs.
- Weeknotes 78
- Conveyancing, ice packs on my laptop and a norny.
- Weeknotes 77
- Duggee o’clock, wall repair, ten hours of Worship the Sun, terrific tedium and a hot tub made of tweed.
- Weeknotes 76
- Rushing, playing Worship the Sun and a very first haircut.
- Weeknotes 75
- Wasps, requiring Ruby 3.0, buses of all sizes, the finished Tree Delta-based importer and a surprising lullaby.
- Weeknotes 74
- The fate of the AirPod, Calky, an ancient robot in the consultation room, a SOAP integration and ASCII trees.
- Weeknotes 73
- Rabbits, livecheck, how to stop clobbering files, relative font sizing, seemingly innocuous bugs and a single AirPod.
- Weeknotes 72
- Very hot dough, all the toy cars, re2 1.3.0 and how do you solve a problem like WordPress?
- Weeknotes 71
- Getting busted by Nintendo, who is fantastic when gymnastics is what you need, a greenfield Rails application and being spooked by Facebook.
- Weeknotes 70
- Fixing Joy-Con drift, a surprise encounter with my favourite type of duck, parsing Data URLs and a wardrobe malfunction.
- Weeknotes 69
- A lot of hours writing YAML, pancake day, channelling Elon Musk and product names that maximise embarrassment in Homebase.
- Weeknotes 68
- Hoarding tools, the trap of doing jobs and a new buzzword.
- Weeknotes 67
- Bidding our flat farewell, attempting to apply for probate and a new reason to tease me.
- Weeknotes 66
- Project managing life decisions and what even is pudding?
- Weeknotes 65
- Separating out weeknotes, scaling a Rails application, plugging a memory leak and a little boat, no bigger than your hand.
- Weeknotes 64
- Playing old adventure games, extracting subdirectories from git repositories, programming robots, a photo book follow-up and more than five minutes ahead.
- Weeknotes 63
- Arctic scenes, pointless defiance, networking problems and photo books.
- Weeknotes 62
- A snowman, this time last year, reconsidering exercise, dental instruments, optionally rotating eyes and colour schemes.
- Weeknotes 61
- The annual cleansing ritual, first words, festive soldering, learning Go and a lot of Christmas specials.
- Weeknotes 59 and 60
- Decamping to the north, two significant DIY projects and things learnt while continuing the migration to Active Storage.
- Weeknotes 58
- Dealing with bad news, very specific tools for the job and migrating from Paperclip to Active Storage.
- Weeknotes 56 and 57
- Cooking as a balm in troubled times, boil in the bag routine change, mistaken Twitter identity, meditating with DUPLO, sending cookies with the Fetch API, increasing errors by nearly 500,000%, trying to collect truly anonymous usage data and not thinking about a child's jaws.
- Weeknotes 55
- Integrating Shopify BuyButton.js with Turbolinks, the M1 SoC, testing signed Stripe webhooks and cavorting.
- Weeknotes 54
- Handling numeric user input with React, cleaning up unused Homebrew dependencies, Command Line Tools woe, losing control of your eyes and comparing our son to icons in IKEA instruction manuals.
- Weeknotes 53
- An unwelcome return, low spirits and removing a special case.
- Weeknotes 52
- A year of weeknotes, inconsequential quests, kernel extensions, using Terraform to manage multiple AWS accounts at once, testing feature flags and the secret fantasy of a future self.
- Weeknotes 51
- Pizza crusts, London Computation Club wiki, what to do with an inherited codebase and collective disbelief.
- Weeknotes 50
- Baby-proofing, Richard Osman’s role in my life, carrying pliers, zeitgeist marketing, ergonomic experiments and escaping from Hades.
- Weeknotes 49
- Paracetamol suspensions, 90s music and final shaping.
- Weeknotes 48
- Mentor envy, calculating the surface area of pizza, separation, adding HTTP headers and how to use your entire body to express dissatisfaction.
- Weeknotes 47
- Settling in, potentially diseased garlic and being at a loss for notes.
- Weeknotes 46
- T'north, Netflix tips and tricks and coffee brewing theory.
- Weeknotes 45
- A birth story.
- Weeknotes 44
- A young child's unsteady walk, deep cleaning and a holiday.
- Weeknotes 43
- New experiences, starting over and Daddy Pig holding a mirror up to society.
- Weeknotes 42
- A void that cannot be filled with ergonomic equipment, tech brain and decapitating cardboard dogs.
- Weeknotes 41
- Almost all the colours of the rainbow, what we wear on our feet, reminiscing with Radiohead, René Redzepi and technical tests.
- Weeknotes 40
- Not owning a microwave, uncanny turns of phrase, Parts Unknown and the therapeutic power of Taylor Swift.
- Weeknotes 39
- Nurseries, unwinding with wooden blocks, things people say to you when you wear a baby carrier and a computation anniversary.
- Weeknotes 38
- Gold trees, some small sense of freedom, quartz glass platters and the villain in your history.
- Weeknotes 37
- How I discovered adventure games, saving your life, converting cups of sifted flour into moon masses and feeling out of sorts.
- Weeknotes 36
- Visiting other islands, comfort food TV, a market trader mystery, not understanding prescriptions and unexpected sobbing.
- Weeknotes 35
- Pixels per inch, kicking up the 4d3d3d3, the importance of ventilation and genuine Computer Science.
- Weeknotes 34
- Shia LaBeouf, bad bakes, vertical rhythm, finding a stranger in the Alps and the streetlight effect.
- Weeknotes 33
- Generating human-friendly codes, keeping my cool running a Raspberry Pi and threatening my marriage.
- Weeknotes 32
- Replacing a Pi-hole with Unbound and ISC DHCP, speeding up deployments and a reckless root vegetable investment.
- Weeknotes 31
- Unexpected socialising; your mission, should you choose to accept it; computer means and a lifelong commitment.
- Weeknotes 30
- A birthday, the island of Custard, more public keys and a new earworm.
- Weeknotes 29
- An infernal whining, an update on EOL Ruby versions, the pit of success, a GPG rabbithole and teaching babies about quantum mechanics.
- Weeknotes 28
- A new thought technology, supporting old Ruby versions, making the most of the long weekend and filling the hole left in my life by Keith Brymer Jones.
- Weeknotes 27
- Getting emotional about cups and saucers, a home haircut, the only two good types of advert, new kitchen scales and a debugging adventure.
- Weeknotes 26
- The importance of editing, unminifying JavaScript, inappropriate Zoom virtual backgrounds and a thirst for life.
- Weeknotes 25
- Bank holiday noodling, coffee paraphernalia, a use for Shortcuts and life advice from a Learn with Me Zebra walker.
- Weeknotes 24
- Repairs, a new Raspberry Pi, an unforgettable ant update, overcomplicated cooking and an unusual birthday.
- Weeknotes 23
- Reassuring TV shows, negotiating pavements, baby sign language, a home baking first and is Bear Grylls’ TV career over?
- Weeknotes 22
- Driveway picnics, “The Baby Club”, a new enemy at home and the etymology of DIY.
- Weeknotes 21
- COVID-19, asynchronous working, surprise Smash Mouth fandom, flower arranging and being judged by book titles.
- Weeknotes 20
- Working from home, low sodium bread, workplace superpowers and yet another secure shoelace knot.
- Weeknotes 19
- The Missing Hit, hot lemon and honey, Ugly Delicious and a reassuringly dumb baby monitor.
- Weeknotes 18
- The Tube, dad chat, “Shape Up”, improving sleep with first-order logic and what it means when the clown is down.
- Weeknotes 17
- A car park disaster, animated GIFs, not rewriting legacy systems and how the internet really works.
- Weeknotes 16
- Typing practice, an erosion of attention, puzzle solving and wishing we’d done everything differently.
- Weeknotes 15
- Looking for work, laughter, stinging nostrils and writing weeknotes for the future self.
- Weeknotes 14
- The anaesthetic properties of cloves, saline rinses, split keyboards and yelling at clouds.
- Weeknotes 13
- Posture, mouth guards, Guy Fieri’s “Trash Can Nachos” and hearing things in the noise.
- Weeknotes 12
- Yearning for space, failing to make a video, ruining Christmas presents, smart meters and musculoskeletal woes.
- Weeknotes 11
- Redesigning the site, swimming lessons, first cousins once removed and screwdrivering.
- Weeknotes 10
- Revisiting 2018’s yearnotes, sharing podcasts in the park, the rhythm of baby talk and why you wouldn’t be able to cut much with Apple’s scissors emoji.
- Weeknotes 9
- Learning to do nothing, a deep, mirk widd and exactly which grandparent you can shove off a bus.
- Weeknotes 8
- Being extraordinarily lazy, cobbling together a homemade banneton and this year’s obligatory bit of family busywork.
- Weeknotes 7
- Great-grand relatives, the joy of tying knots and Turkish soap operas.
- Weeknotes 6
- Christmas films, participating in democracy and things a true Englishman will never countenance.
- Weeknotes 5
- The unexpected joy of baby cinema, doing everything wrong and our daily multiplayer crossword routine.
- Weeknotes 4
- Struggling with structured data, Christmas puddings, the joy of repairing things and everything being a trade-off.
- Weeknotes 3
- Writing, solving logic puzzles and the Bake Off we deserve.
- Weeknotes 2
- Fixing dates on old videos in Photos, using a Raspberry Pi for Time Machine and the right tool for the job.
- Weeknotes 1
- Dadding, baking, TV and being a paranormal insurance investigator.
- 2018 Yearnotes
- Reflecting on the past year, both personally and professionally.