Lifenotes #11: July 2021

The one with the hedgehog babies 🦔 🦔

📆 4 August 2021 · 2 min read ⏱️

✨ 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 🤸🏼‍♀️

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