• Things I've Enjoyed This Week, Issue 3

    14 July 2025

    Yeah, I’m restarting this series. Why not?

  • Relief, or, putting a project back on the shelf

    11 May 2025

    In late-February I was headhunted to move from the Monolith Platform team where I’d been for four months working on a big Sorbet upgrade and sunsetting an ancient Rails app that was no longer serving a purpose, to the Ruby Architecture team. Amazing! I had put the team on a pedestal since 2021 when they started a quarterly Rails upgrade rotation that I wanted to do but because of organizational politics I never could. Now, I was finally in the team - and permanently! Finally able to learn from the wealth of knowledge accrued by people I looked up to as long-standing Ruby and Rails Core team members. Exciterrifying!

  • Registering for a degree

    15 July 2023

    For the second time in my life I have registered for a degree. It’s either a good idea or a stupid one. We’ll see.

  • Things I've Enjoyed This Week (ish), Issue 2

    31 August 2022

    Technically this series is now fortnightly, but there is at least a follow-up which means I haven’t abandoned it entirely. I think I surprised even myself.

  • Things I've Enjoyed This Week, Issue 1

    17 August 2022

    This blog “series” needs a snappier title, but welcome! Here’s a snapshot of what’s going on in my life, and/or things I’ve enjoyed this week. Hopefully every Wednesday, but let’s see if I can make it a single week, then whole month – small steps!

  • 2020-2021 Birthday Year in Review

    3 April 2021

    It’s too clichéd to do these year in review things at the beginning of a new calendar year, as everyone does them then. So as usual I’m going to be different and try doing them around birthdays instead.