Digital by Default

Tag: weeknotes

  • Year of the Dog: Autumnal Equinox

    qiū fēn 秋分 Forgive me Mother for I have sinned; it has been two weeks since my last conf..oops…weeknote. I need to get back in to the habit of writing these at a better cadence. My head is a bit cluttered at the moment — there is a lot going on up there and some of it isn’t…

  • Year of the Dog: White Dew

    bái lù 白露 Slightly disrupted couple of weeks due to a combination of bank holiday, events, bomb scares(!) and ill health. Still a few things to report on (warning this is a total brain dump from a man dosed up on Lemsip Max!): Sent in proposal for a piece of work I am really keen on…

  • Year of the Dog: Limit of Heat

    chù shǔ 处暑 I’ve had an interesting couple of weeks — here are some things that have happened: Lost my wallet — realised how much of my life is tied to my debit/credit cards after I cancelled them Had my wallet returned — including £180 cash — faith in human nature restored Got a new Macbook — it is pretty but mainly I am happy to…

  • Year of the Dog: Notes from Major Heat

    dà shǔ 大暑 Five things that happened 一 I introduced a GDS style ‘firebreak’ to the team for the latest sprint that has just finished. The idea of this is to give the team an opportunity to ‘scratch their itches’ on things that don’t make the top of the backlog sprint on sprint. Whether that is tech…

  • Publishing your #weeknotes to weeknot.es

    There seem to be a steady stream of people joining the #weeknotes gang and as much as possible I’ve been trying to spot and add them to this ‘publication’ — obviously nobody has to use it but I do love the URL and I like the community that has grown up around it. If I haven’t added…