Week Notes 21#43

A fairly busy week ahead of Rich and Soph staying, and API Days London for my second week at the DSA:

• Finally had a look at my money, and it's been interesting seeing what a number of upcoming big expenses actually mean
• Finished Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
• Was able to attend some of API Days London, which had some good sessions - some interesting things to think about and look into further
  • I ended up losing my notes from most of Thursday, which was not great.. Fortunately sessions are recorded and I'd planned to rewatch some of them
  • Felt very much called out by comments about poorly designed distributed monolithsand the way I've helped build them in the past
• New Android 12 upgrade is taking a bit of time to get used to
• Became a maintainer of the Jenkins Job DSL plugin
  • Probably should've stepped up while I was still very actively using it, but am hoping that this will help others get continued use out of it
  • Nice to get my PR from last year's Hacktoberfest for credentials on folders released
  • Messed up the API viewer so needed to rush a follow-up release
  • Been a bit distracting with that happening around work
• Some of the stuff that I was working on in my last year at C1 is now imminently going live, which is awesome
• Got the final measurements for the windows, which should be all ready to go - just as soon as the materials are ready
• Got a couple of blog posts out that I'd been wanting to for a while, and a few blogumentations that weren't planned!
• Bought The Design of Web APIs, but haven't gotten around
• Finally getting around to talking to my potential therapist, who's now busy, so back to the drawing board
• Decided I'm getting an XPS 13 in Black Friday - found the configuration I want, and hoping that it'll be sufficiently reduced that it'll be worth waiting until then
• Another week of Morph being fairly stressed
• Had a lovely weekend hosting Rich and Soph
  • Had a few things to do ahead of them coming, so fairly busy prepping
  • Was really nice having them as our first non-family visitors
  • Really lovely to catch up with them
  • Did the Lego jigsaw
  • Reminisced about the good - and not so good - old days
  • Had some very adult conversations about jobs, finances, what we want out of our lives
  • Had some good food, good chats, good wine, spirits and port, and a couple of late nights chatting
• Rediscovered some very nice photos from the last few years - for our digital photo frame - and have a new phone background, that I'm going to be getting printed for my desk
• Found it very frustrating not being able to join work meetings on Teams due to Microsoft actively blocking Firefox
• Was nice having an extra hour's sleep this morning given the clocks changing
• Mum's antibody test came back very positive and full of antibodies!
• Morph scared off a black cat trying to sneak into the garden
• Was a human adult and didn't get an unnecessary takeaway for Wednesday lunch
• Didn't get any trick or treaters, luckily
• Ordered my Hacktoberfest t-shirt
• Booper for the garage has stopped working, which is not great

Watched:

• Atypical
• Space Force