Weeknotes 20

Following recent events, I’ve been working from home all week.

Thankfully, I recently cobbled together a standing desk out of an old BenQ monitor perched atop Donald Knuth’s “The Art of Computer Programming” and Harold McGee’s “McGee on Food & Cooking”. Combining that with Tuple for pair-programming and Miro as a virtual whiteboard has made the switch from being co-located to being fully remote easier.

If you’re new to remote working, Alice Goldfuss’ “Work in the Time of Corona” has some good, practical advice about maintaining good mental health when working from home.

Somewhat late to the party, we finally watched—and were moved by—Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette”.

As someone who often uses git commit --fixup to tell stories through my commits before code review, git absorb could save me a lot of time (via Andrew Gallant).

I baked a loaf of bread with less salt than usual for C to try (although he’d have to eat 120g of my usual recipe to meet his daily limit). Compared to his reaction to the kale and butternut squash on his plate, I’d say it was a rousing success.

While I refuse to stockpile, I do have 41 kg of bread flour in my kitchen from a spontaneous purchase back in January.

Tom and I were discussing the workplace superpower of “saying you’ll do a thing and then doing it” and he linked me to a Twitter thread by Lucy Prebble arguing competence is culturally undervalued.

I started playing “The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening” and it is wonderful so far. Despite owning a SNES, the first Zelda game I really played was 1998’s “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” on a Nintendo 64 so this is the first top-down perspective Zelda I’ve ever played.

I put up a mirror in our bedroom today. Another day, another Ian’s secure shoelace knot.