I don’t do resolutions, but I have changed how I approach something at work for this year, and so I guess that counts, right? I now have regular blocks of time in my calendar marked out as “Busy. Any meetings added in this time will be declined.”. This was after I realised I had multiple days in a week where in 7 hours I was doing a dozen or more meetings and was feeling totally burnt ou...

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The most important thing that has happened in weeks occurred! I found my cat-themed washi tape! This means the work todo lists in my Hobonichi Techo are now much prettier, and if it’s ever getting too long I can insert some paws or fish to break it up into chunks. Much better; good light-hearted stress relief. Euro 2020 has started in 2021 and England have played their first game...

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This has felt like a long week. I realised that I am having a day off work roughly every 7 weeks with a thundering headache, inability to focus and incredibly short temper – my wife is placing her bets on some kind of Zoom Fatigue, which sounds not totally implausible – Anadin Extra only takes the edge off it and it takes a day or two before I’m back to normal again. The...

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I have started working from home one day a week to help make up the hours I lose by taking my son to school in the mornings. This week, on my day at home, I wanted to have a remote talk with some people in the office. “Easy”, we all thought, “we’ll just use Google Hangouts”. Wrong. Laggy, constant dropouts, confusing UI. In the end I hung up in frustration and we IMd to exchange S...

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So, despite my sterling attempt to delude myself last year it’s been years since I’ve been a developer rather than a manager, and it was about the time of this change in my role that this blog started to die out. All I have now are opinions and guidance, which the internet is far too full of for me to want to add to (plus I am stil...

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Yesterday, with the return of my family from holiday, I forgot to make changes to any of my projects in GitHub, and broke my commit streak at 57 days. Initially I’d aimed for making changes on 30 consecutive days, just to try and get some momentum up in making progress on a couple of fairly low-key projects that hadn’t been going anywhere, and ...

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I just realised that we no longer have a functional bug database at work, meaning we have gone down by a point in

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Whilst I’m thinking about all these different topics that I’m interested in, can anyone help? I’m in the market for a new desktop note-taking tool. It must start up in <3 seconds and save each note as a standalone text file, using some form of text-based notation (like wiki, textile or markdown). If that didn’t eliminate en...

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get out of the office for lunch walk up the hill to work, provided it is not snowing do something creative first thing at work rather than answering email leave work promptly! I think that will do for the first couple of months of 2011 🙂

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In a comment on peterme.com over a year ago, I said I’d like to see a personal dashboard being displayed through one of those digital wifi photo frames attached to the inside of my front door, so I can see the appointments my wife and I have got that day on my way out, plus other reminders based on previo...

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