- A busy couple of months or so, which so easily ends up breaking the habit of
writing something regularly,
- It’s mostly been work, my current project — which involves building lots of
different bits of software and some hardware integration — has been fairly
intense recently, but I’ve also been learning to drive (which I picked up
again after a 10 year hiatus),
- This has all lead to my previously delightfully minimalist one computer, one
monitor and tidy desk setup to have another monitor, another computer and
various bits of hardware spread everywhere (two receipt printers, three
laptops with my own counted and an industrial Windows tablet). It’s been
the most interesting and challenging thing I’ve ever worked on,
- I’ve had more opportunities to write TypeScript, and most recently C# which
is not something I’ve done since University. I’m a fan; especially when tied
with Visual Studio,
- The most noticeable thing is strongly typed languages when it comes to
refactoring. The initial process of getting going might well be slower, but
the middle of a project and onwards is so much easier,
- I’ve also ended up reading a bunch of technical books lately:
Domain Driven Design Distilled (I’d recommend it),
Building Event-Driven Microservices (I’m about half way through, and
using DDD to think about breaking up services through events seems to fit so
nicely), and C# In Depth (although this was a bit too …in depth so
far),
- I’m extremely far behind in all of my open source notifications, partly
through having much less time at thoughtbot whilst we try out a short Friday
experiment, so if you’re waiting on something, sorry about that,
- Finally, I got around to upgrading my Mac to Big Sur (a year after it was
released) and thought sod-it and immediately jumped onto the Monterey beta
with the RC. It’s been great so far, so 🤞