Lifenotes #11: July 2021

✨ Highlights

• We found a litter of hedgehogs living in our garden, so now we feed and check on them every day 🦔 💛
• Our garden has started to fruit, we got potatoes, lots of raspberries and even our corn is starting to grow.
• Seeing friends is always a nice treat 💛
• Got promoted, I'm a senior now 🎉
• Went back to Capoeira, it's been really nice to exercise and see my capo friends again 🤸🏼‍♀️

🎮 Played/Read/Watched

• Why senior engineers get nothing done by Swizec Teller: This article hit close to home, turns out I already do a lot of what is suggested, but I need to be better at documenting every answer.
• In JS functions, the last return wins by Jake Archibald
• Performance reviews by Lara Hogan
• Questions I'm asking in interviews by Julia Evans
• the component gallery: design systems
• The perils of rehydration by Josh Comeau
• Good meetings by Sarah Drasner
• Clueless: I hadn't watched it before, and my only question after is: is Paul Rudd human?
• Learning to succeed on large software projects by Denise Yu
• How do you identify great engineers when hiring? by Yenny Cheung
• Always be quitting by Julio Merino
• A promise broken by L'atelier: this is beautifully done but a somber read.
• Time to say goodbye - Enzyme.js by Piotr Staniów
• How to learn stuff quickly by Josh Comeau
• Simple things are complicated: making a show password option by Andy Sellick
• How I think about career development by Cian Synnott
• The Dig: nice film, I didn't know much about the Sutton Hoo dig so it was nice to learn about it.
• Finished The West Wing! Really enjoyed it 😄
• We don't do that here by Aja Hammerly

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