#weeknote

[techforevil-er]

21-31.01.2023

What if I didn't spend hours crafting those, and just chucked out some stuff from memory? It'd look like this.

Work

UKGovCamp happened. Pubcamp was of course the most fun part of it. :) I made some sticker design and two will be actually made, woop!

I wrapped up coaching with two of the volunteers. -> I need to write a longer, separate blogpost.

After some issues with attendance and effectiveness of our regular governance meetings (plus new ones being introduced to patch some gaps anyway...) I am trying to move my team to a more async mode of working.

I was a guest facilitator at a retro for another team, pretended to be a UR while pre-testing a protoype we will showing users at the start of Feb

said goodbye to two team members, one moving teams and another leaving CS zone completely :'(

did and analysed a survey from my fellow DMs about learning and skills, to be presented back next Tuesday

Food

Jam Delish - one of the current London 핫플, I went on a whim after a recommendation on work Slack. I only had two starters + plantain (+a flaming cocktail...핫 indeed :) ) as I went alone but I will be back and try more. The 'wings' were possibly my least favourite, the texture just wasn't it...

Other

went to see M3GAN - very fun campy horror, as expected

finished I'm Glad My Mum Died (finally... not an easy read if you can relate, despite short chapters and uncomplicated, conversational prose)

finished my elephant teapot handbuild (glazing in few weeks) and cast making

made a couple of lasercut flowers... tbc on 3rd until i have enough for earrings

[alxfsl]

Sketchy Notes 2024: Digital Sketchbook #2 'Grandma memories: the black dress' I haven't been publishing my weeknotes yet because I am changing and restructuring my blog, but as I do it in my limited spare time (yes, the PhD is to blame), it still need some work. Today, however, it's a special day for me, and I really wanted to share it. A sketchy note to my grandma, who taught me the love for craft and learning, and would have turned 100 today:

https:://alxfsl.com/sketchy-notes/crafty-memories-and-birthday-wishes Software: Affinity Photo Device: Surface Laptop

[dtpennington]

Blackout Friday. Weeknotes Nov 21, 2022

https://link.medium.com/2VymoYQchvb

[timpera]

Weeknotes 2024 S46

Mardi 19 novembre 2024

C'est encore une semaine plutôt tranquille qui vient de s'écouler.

En vrac : j'ai complètement raté mon interro de droit fiscal jeudi, j'ai mangé 4 fois chez Burger King en 4 jours (diabète speed run any%) et j'ai nettoyé ma chambre en profondeur (à la vapeur !!) pour la première fois depuis 1 an.

En parlant de 1 an, c'était notre premier anniversaire avec Léa vendredi. On est allés au restaurant et j'ai mangé les meilleures pâtes de ma vie. 🍝

J'ai hâte d'être en vacances.

[thejaymo]

Have Some Ambition | Weeknotes

Here we all are, moving to a new table in the casino, hoping it’ll somehow feel different this time.

We built small thoughts in little boxes, Stacked them high on shifting sands. The tide swept in, and still we gathered, Chasing echoes, clutching hands.

[oluonline]

friday is the new sunday when it comes to my weeknotes

[andypiper]

Maintaining a rhythm

A short post to summarise the end of the week. #Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload

A bit short and unstructured today, but posting to keep things moving along. End-of-weeknotes, if you will. Fabrik (which I only wrote about a couple of weeks ago!) is changing their London offering and closing the physical space, so I’ve been trying to track what’s going on with that, but not able to get to any of the meetings about it all. I’m sad about it. We recorded episode 476 of Games at…

[bdarfler]

I have had a weeknotes practice for a few years, starting in my upward 1:1 doc, and more recently expanding to public slack posts. It is always worth the time for my own reflection, for future reference, and for radiating intent.

[thegoodevil]

🎄What a journey!

Only 12 months have passed since the last holidays and new years break. An exciting year has passed and we can't wait until 2024 to show you all the games we worked on in 2023. But until then, we take some time to recharge and feast on nuts and chocolate, like Squirrel.

If you celebrate Christmas and feel the need for a last minute present, get a gift card for the Nintendo eShop. Always useful, low impact on the environment and our little badger "Rascal" might visit soon. Until then, Happy holidays and a nuttastic start into 2024 from all of the Evils! ✨ (We will be back in office on January 8th).

[hughlh]

Fed is best | Weeknotes 5/6/23

I’ve been really swamped at my day job for the last few months, and, surprise, my routines have suffered. But a huge project I was working on just ended, and things should revert to something like normal. But the end result is my writing practice has suffered. I have still sent my newsletter each week, even if I have sent it late twice. People were kind enough to not remark on that.  In the…

[lloyddavis]

Weeknote 23/49

Ah me, it’s week 49. # I usually write *something* at the end of the week, but rarely (if ever) manage to publish it. For me, writing is thinking more than it is anything else and giving my thoughts on the week an extra polish in order to share them is usually too much effort. But I’m remembering the benefits of sharing this rough stuff in public and every now and then the internal battle turns…

[techforevil-er]

08.01-20.01

i drafted this ages ago but was too lazy to post so just throwing the draft into the world

Work

Pretty busy two weeks work-wise.

The team continues to struggle a bit with the new standup but after the retro most have started reviewing the board more frequently and ensuring things are updated/moved etc. There’s been quite a lot of movement in the ‘thank you’ doc I’ve set up so I think eventually we can get away from the need to go through every card or every person and focus on things that are the most significant or could use help. I think there’s also more work for me to do on cards getting created and split out and facilitating conversations around them on a daily basis, I’ll think more about that next week. 

I’m also collecting some more info on work completed, mostly categories for now (we’re meant to be doing 20% of maintenance but in reality it seems to be around 60-70%...) but working up to cycle and lead time. I’ve been avoiding it because I have a reckon that

a) it won’t show very healthy things, and

b) it will highlight things we don’t have a way of optimising/will to push them anyway,

…but let’s try. 🤷‍♀️ With any luck it may help escalate the issues around structure and remit we’ve been talking about to Leads and SMT anyway. 

On the bright side, the new healthcheck based on a values exercise seems to be working in that the responses are much less generic and it’s easy to pull out actions. I may write up the process of doing this as a separate blogpost here or on LinkedIn. 

We kicked off a deep dive into one of the content formats on GOV.UK. So far the designers have been looking at how it was used before and relationship with things like the campaigns platform and other exemptions. Personally, the need for it seems very unclear and I hope connecting with a team that just completed their discovery on content formats overall will help us think more of just retiring it or merging with a different type and making it more flexible. 

Work-related events

Product Unconference - I mostly wanted to listen. It was nice to have a chat with a couple of people I’ve not seen since the pre-pandemic times and catch up. Hopefully more of that at the govcamp! The ‘working without a DM’ session highlighted how dysfunctional most teams are… I am very thankful for my current working situation and my great PM, but I’ve definitely felt a lot of the pain from the other side before haha. Altho people talking about their DMs being significantly more optimistic when reporting to higher ups was quite a shock, out of the things spoken about this was something I’ve never encountered. :)) 

DM away day for our programme - With two guest speakers and some group work this was a packed day that I think was quite effective in re-energising most attendees… It was definitely useful to have the time to talk about community things and agree actions for the next couple of months, and between setting up a survey to collect learning/skills/observation needs and writing up a thing about how I do health checks (including examples from a couple of other people) I definitely have new found energy to do things. \m/ But also, an ever-increasing antipathy towards the word ‘playbook’....

 

Making

My pottery class restarted!! \o/ With two out of 8 classes done I have an easter bowl ready for bisque and underglazes and half a teapot complete. The pace is pretty slow and all the techniques explained as quite a few people are brand new to pottery so my expectation of it building directly on the Beginners class is not fully realised. I’m in two minds about it because it’s nice and relaxing, but on the other hand a lot of the time is spent on things like I feel like I’ve got covered, especially considering I’ve done several drop-ins. 

Speaking of drop-ins, my nerikomi plant pot is also just waiting for glazing and firing. I had a mishap with some paper stuck in it so fingers crossed and prayers for it not exploding. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 I also went to a different class, to explore making plaster moulds and using slip. I will make a separate review after part 2 in a couple of weeks but overall I was amazed by how easy it was. If I can find some place to work with casts and slip more (my studio’s current drop-ins don’t really have it available), I definitely will. 

With this, my drop-ins are all used up and I think I will not be buying more before March considering all my other crafting commitments. 😅

On Friday evening I went to the first out of five classes about laser cut jewellery. It's much easier than expected, with most difficulties being Windows and trackpad related haha. I've got to see if there's adecent vector drawign app for iPad.

Eating

I’m trying to eat less meat this year. Giving it up entirely is unrealistic (I went to Berenjak and oh my god the chicken was so good) but exploring more veggie options is so far very fun - even if it’s just ordering tofu version of drunken noodles from Rosa’s. ;) 

Last 2 weeks highlights: 

Unity Diner - 2nd try, still so so good! I realised I’ve only had chicken approximates but one of my friends ordered the ‘lobster’ mac’n’cheese which was similarly uncanny in texture, and another the ‘tofish’ and both were very happy with their choices. I’ll probably go back very soon. 

What the Pitta - entirely incidental trip after I got annoyed with either of the Prets by the office not stocking the new NODuja range or Jambon-buerre (sssh!). The wrap was very tasty, massive, and ready pretty much immediately so this is a perfect place for lunch. 

Holy Cow! - a Friday night delivery order, inc their take on black daal.  Honestly not too impressed, will go for veggie options from usual Indian takeouts in the future. :(

Looking

New Black Vanguard (tbqh the Bitter Nostalgia room with collabs by Hyangmok Baik and Adébayo Bolaji was my favourite thing in Saatchi that day tho)

Tár

[alxfsl]

Sketchy Notes 2024: Digital Sketchbook #1 'Interviews'

Software: Affinity Photo Device: Surface Laptop

[cygnoir]

2024 Week 37 Notes: R&R

Look at this absolutely good girl: my canine sister, Willa.

Concentrating on

Rest, relaxation, and quality time with loved ones! We’re visiting family in Pennsylvania this week and attending a wedding in Kentucky on Friday.

When packing, I restricted myself to three notebooks and three pens because I tend to overpack and then immediately regret as I am schlepping around a stationery store in my backpack.

Cultivating

✍🏻 Drafting two (very different) stories. I’m looking forward to time off work to let my creative writing brain percolate.

🥘 Food I made that was yummy:

Pork chops in garlic mushroom sauce, with mashed potatoes and salad on the side. I am not a huge fan of pork chops, but I got them in our CSA box, so I looked for a recipe that incorporated other things I am a huge fan of, like garlic and mushrooms.

🇮🇹 When my brain is full of Italian, I switch over to music lessons in Duolingo. It’s fun!

Consuming

🖋️ Only three pens means only three inks: De Atramentis Charles Dickens, Sailor Manyo Hinoki, and Robert Oster Sydney Lavender.

🎧 I heard “White Gloves” by Khruangbin for the first time in a while and forgot how much I enjoy their music.

🎙 Recently FunkyPlaid and I tried to watch the show “Kaos” and lasted about ten minutes. I had listened to the Pop Culture Happy Hour episode on the show and thought I might enjoy it.

🎲 No time for games this week. I’m looking forward to some Puzzmo!

📺 We started watching “My Brilliant Friend”, the adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet, which I read last year and loved.

📚 What I’m reading and quoting:

“The Mountain in the Sea” by Ray Nayler: “How we see the world matters — but knowing how the world sees us also matters.”

Some links

I love Tracy Durnell’s latest weeknotes post. I’m not even mad at how it makes me feel like I’ve done absolutely nothing in comparison. 😂

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars (Albert Burneko)

Firefly Atlas: I’m eager to see fireflies while I’m here, so I’m doing some research.

One more thing

I was a bit anxious to travel during a COVID surge, so in addition to getting the new vaccine as soon as I could, I invested in a Flo Mask Pro to wear in airports, planes, and any other crowded spaces. I’m so glad I did; it was very comfortable to wear all day, once I got used to how it felt. My glasses didn’t fog up at all, which is a minor miracle. I did get some looks (you know the kind) but that was a small price to pay for a greater chance of avoiding Covid and/or Long Covid. I only saw a handful of other people masked.

[timpera]

Weeknotes 2024 S45

Mercredi 13 novembre 2024

J'écris ce récap avec quelques jours de retard (ça risque de devenir un problème récurrent). Les semaines se suivent et se ressemblent et l'hiver s'installe tranquillement.

Les vacances sont finies et j'ai passé à peu près toute la semaine à réviser (à la dernière minute, évidemment) pour mon partiel blanc de droit bancaire, qui avait lieu ce vendredi.

Ça ne s'est pas très bien passé (enfin je pense ?), mais c'est passé !

J'ai ensuite eu droit à un weekend prolongé surprise : j'avais complétement oublié que le 11 novembre était férié. Je ne sais pas si j'en ai vraiment profité, puisque je l'ai passé à dormir et à travailler pour Citygo (mon emploi salarié).

Oh, et je me suis fait couper les cheveux au pire coiffeur de la Sainte-Saint-Denis, mais je trouve qu'il m'a plutôt réussi :)

[thejaymo]

THAT Debate | Weeknotes

It's been a week of major storms here, both literal and metaphorical. But Summer is still clinging on, and so am I.