• I had this week off work and have been holidaying & catching up on some life admin things.
• I managed to catch The Boy and the Heron before its run ended in Canberra this week. I have been a fan of Miyazaki's work since I saw Spirite...

• It was a quiet week this week :) I spent the first half of it cleaning out and re-painting my home office. The walls were an odd yellow colour — which no longer matched the colour of the rest of the house. Thankfully, the walls were in pret...

• First week back at work started off hot! Back to back meetings and onboarding new folks is one way to jump-start the old memory :D Thankfully I had written up some decent notes so I could ramp up pretty quickly!
• This weekend was a weird one...

I was pairing with a colleague this afternoon at work on trying to test an action in Hanami 2 where we explicitly needed to read the body of the request.

The action looked something like this:

class MyAction < Action
    before_action ...

• This post marks a year of updating this site on a regular (pretty much weekly) basis! As the year has gone on, I have been thinking about how to title these posts. For the past year, it has been week number followed by some theme from the w...

• Busy week this week ahead of our work's offsite next week, trying to get a bunch crammed in before a week of interruptions, oh and it's performance review time 🌀
• I made a joke just before I started painting and doing up my office, t...

• Abby and I spent this week in Melbourne — we both had work things that both happened to land this week. It was the first tome we stayed in the CBD since we lived there and I don't think either of us miss the madness of it all.
• My work t...

My Home Screen for February'24

(Ignore the unreads — I will reply to them at some point!)

• Obsidian is a staple, notes used to be my go to, but I've found so much more utility with Obsidian.
• A couple of shortcuts for posting to th...

• Lots of catchup this week, post company offsite! It was also my last official week as a team lead! I'm very much looking forward to being able to focus on the technical success of the team and partnering with some other folks to fill th...

• It was a warm one this week! Perhaps summer giving its last hurrah before we dive in to the chill of a Canberra Autumn!
• Work has been quite stressful these last few weeks — I'm leading the upgrade of a service that is central to our pla...

• What a mixed week! This week was bookended with 2 pretty wild events.
• On Monday night, I flew in to Melbourne in preparation to go see Blink-182 on Tuesday evening.
• On Tuesday, we managed to do a run through of a major database upgrade in a...

• Summer seems to be back again this week! We've had a streak of a couple ~30° days this week. While I normally welcome the heat, I was kinda hoping to get stuck in to some work in the new place, which is (at the moment) lacking any cooli...

• I spent some of the long weekend over at the new place pulling out more fixtures. We're just down to the bathroom and kitchen now which I should be able to do next weekend before we get some people in to rip out and dispose of the walls...

My Home Screen for March '24 Shrinking down the music widget and bringing in a couple more apps — specifically Mail. I tried opening it with a swipe down & search, but I have been using it more and more this last month, so it gets ...

• I spent some of the weekend taking out some of the kitchen and bathroom installations in the new place. Most of it was simple enough, with just a handful of stubborn screws, and there are just a handful of pieces that are attached to someth...

• Short week this week on account of Easter. It's been super crazy at work these last few weeks, so the 4 days off is incredibly welcome.
• Renovations are continuing at the new place, all of the plaster has come off the walls and almost al...

• A quiet one this week!
• Another four day work week (which felt like home), was incredibly rewarding.
• I've been working my way through more of the Playstation's free games catalogue. This time trying out Tales of Arise. Earlier in th...

• Late one this week on account of a busy weekend!
• I was in Sydney on Wednesday this week to attend the first ever Ruby in Common! Ruby conf is one of my favourite times of year, and I missed out on attending this year — but this made up for ...

• The weather has been ace in Canberra this week, and especially this weekend! Even though it's been cold in the morning and evenings, we're getting those awesome Autumn days that get to around 19-20 degrees by lunch time, and cool ri...