Author: Matt Jukes

  • Week 12: Days of Christmas 

    Week 12: Days of Christmas 

    Doing this a day early as hopefully by this time tomorrow I will be trying to work out whether I should have an extra pint (which will lead to who knows how many more) or head home and be sensible for it is the Season 🎄 This week consisted of a lot of writing/editing/thinking/rinse/repeat. I…

  • Newsletter home hunting

    Newsletter home hunting

    So TinyLetter has announced its forthcoming demise and while I have been pretty sure it was going to happen it is nonetheless a sad day.  The simplicity of it as a platform is a big reason that I started – and maintained – my jobs newsletter. It is light on features compared to other products…

  • Week Eleven: Context Switching

    Week Eleven: Context Switching

    If Week Ten was hard for non-work reasons this one has been pretty tiring due to the day job(s). It hasn’t been bad but there was a step up in intensity and context switching as I got involved in a number of additional bits of work and had to get up to speed pretty quickly…

  • Week Ten: The Funeral

    Week Ten: The Funeral

    This was a difficult week for reasons unrelated to the work. Yesterday morning was my grandmother’s funeral which I found harder than I expected – in fact the thought of it had contributed to my feeling distracted and fragile all week and my traditional November man-flu (hey at least it wasn’t Covid this time) didn’t…

  • Take out the tabs day

    Take out the tabs day

    Too many Chrome profiles with too many open tabs has got my laptop crawling through treacle so I thought I would capture some of those tabs for posterity. I don’t do this often anymore because – well – everybody does but maybe someone will find something useful –> Finding the “So What?” – How to…