- Back to work last week and it was a good one: started off with helping out
with a database migration (DigitalOcean’s managed database solution is
pretty nice!) and then a new project starting with the second phase of a
project that’s just Rails. It’s good to be back in the land of Rails, a
place where I can comfortably test-drive new features in just a few hours
and really focus about the product we’re delivering rather than the minutiae
of the code,
- I somehow ended up leaving a year (to the month!) in getting back to
reading Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby, but I finished the
final chapter this week. It’s good and well recommended,
- After just short of two weeks using Rectangle, I’ve gotten used to
it now and it’s working great. I generally use four quadrants: Slack,
Drafts, Mail (although I only open this once in the morning), then often
Chrome (which I use for work) on one half of the screen. Occasionally I’ve
been using a two-thirds/one-third split with Chrome and Drafts for calls,
as Jira can’t quite fit otherwise, my terminal session always fullscreen,
- This weekend saw me tear down the greenhouse that I’ve had setup for the
last two years; it was just a plastic tent and in the sun they don’t last
forever. I ended up picking the last two aubergines and the last cucumber
of the season,
- Then frame three prints that I’ve been meaning to do for years: one a
Guinness poster which came in a rotting frame and I finally replaced, an
early-run of Cameron Moll’s Brooklyn Bridge letterpress print and
finally a print of the design proof of the BR logo which came out of
Wallace Henning’s work on the Corporate Identity Manual. It’s only
taken me about 8 years to start doing this!