Lifenotes #14: October & November 2021
The one with all the in person conferences 🥳
✨ Highlights
- DDD East Midlands was such good fun! And a great foray into IRL conferences again 🎉
- Went into the Monzo office for the first time 🚀
- Started attending BSL classes again, after a forced covid hiatus.
- Went to React Advanced with my new workmates, it was great ✨
- Family came to visit for a few days 💛
- State of the browser was awesome. Got to meet some web twitter friends IRL and hang out ☺️
- I succumbed to the hype (and the despondency over my 2018 MBP keyboard) and got a new mac! I ended up going for the 16” M1 Max, and this thing is so silent and fast 🤩
- Caught up with a friend after a long time 💛
- Went to a Brownies STEM event and it was so much fun! 🎉
- First Homebrew back in person! 💛👩🏼💻
🎮 Played/Read/Watched
- Locus by Ethan Marcotte
- Why flow matters more than passion by Sarah Drasner
- What is a Staff (or Staff-Plus or Principal) Engineer by Mike McQuaid
- Who is the bad art friend? by Robert Kolker
- Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps by Rich Harris
- What the heck, z-index?? by Josh Comeau
- Foundation: started watching it, it’s okay
- Ted Lasso: watched the end of series 2, can’t wait for series 3!
- Neurodivergent burnout: the cost of closing the gap by Abi Moorcock
- Everything You Need to Know About GraphQL in 3 Components by Eve Porcello
- Dave Chappelle’s Betrayal by Saeed Jones
- What you discover when you really listen, by Hrishikesh Hirway
- We need to talk about money by Otegha Uwagba
- GBBO! 🧁
- Oceans eight: an entertaining watch
- Dune: it was our first trip to the cinema in like, 2 years, and the film was great
- O homem do futuro: watched with my mum and sis when they were over, quite a silly romcom, but I like the actors
- Being the DRI of your career by Cate
- Writing In Public, Inside Your Company by Brie at KoolAid Factory
- How organizations are like slime molds by Alex Komoroske
- Time is a Social Construct by Daniel Cousineau
- How to take criticism by The School of Life
- Crouching tiger, hidden dragon I hadn’t seen this before, and it was really good, plus Michelle Yeoh is awesome
- Derry Girls Series 2: I love this show so much, and it’s so funny too
- Is my ADHD real? - Factually! podcast
- How We Built a Team with a High Net Promoter Score by Jamie Tanna
📸 Pics
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