November 2022

A month of actual coding, shift to Mastodon, 100 daily pushups, 2 days out in London, new coaching opportunities, random EM connections and plenty TV time.

Make #

• Migrated Make Life Work from Wordpress to 11ty on Netlify as a cost reduction and technical knowledge exercise

• Tidied up the navigation and footer links on this website

• Rewind to FHF43 on House Finesse plus another guest mix from Sarah Jae

• One final tweet on my 16th anniversary following the Musk takeover chaos

• Setup our own Mastodon instance with @Adrian at managingengineers.net

• Created Mastodon accounts for Make Life Work, Derby County, House Finesse and One Phat DJ

• Started plans for a new mixed format for Make Life Work podcast (based on listener feedback)

• Renewed unstyled.com for the 19th year

• Added Barry White, disco classics, Jungle Brothers, Junior Jack, Dimitri From Paris and Freestylers to The Archive Collection

• Created Trakt to Google Sheet and Micro feed to Mastodon IFTTT recipes

• Downgraded from Trello Standard (due to unused features) and cancelled Dropbox Pro with all files now in iCloud

Life #

• Completed November's 100 daily push up challenge for Cancer Research, raising over £200 in the process and now able to complete 50 in one rep

• Enjoyed BBC's Children In Need special matinee of Disney's Frozen musical in London

• Educational trip to London's Imperial War Museum for a family birthday

• Visited sixth form options for The Boy's media studies including Leamington Spa college

• Failed to sell the Smart car to Webuyanycar with them asking us for £50 (to settle the finance agreement)

• Gave blood for the first time in over 3 years, apparently my O Neg is in high demand, but for fifth time overall

• Struggled through a long Winter flu, wiping me out of work for 2 days and pushup challenge for 3

Work #

• Authentic Listening training with people around the company, finding an accountability partner in Fleur

• Kicked off EM Development initiative, to identify and provide structure for EM's career growth

• Started the Coaching Professional Level 5 apprenticeship with a cohort of fellow EM's

• Lightning Talks from Lewis on growing an Instagram following and myself on why Mastodon

• Contributed my first .NET PR towards the new Engineering Competency Framework project

• Helped Simon and Manni introduce PETALS to their engineering teams as the framework gains further interest

• Spoke to Dionne at TfL about mentoring more diversity into tech

• Spoke to Sophie at What3Words through the Supermanagers Slack coffee roulette

Read #

• The Riddle of the Sphinx (Kwan Thrillers #5)

• Out Of Spite, Out Of Mind (Magic 2.0 #5)

Watched #

• The Devil's Hour on Prime

• The Elon Musk Show on BBC

• Stuck on BBC

• The Horne Section TV Show on All4

• SAS: Rogue Heroes on BBC

• Welcome to Wrexham on DisneyPlus

• Tokyo Vice (Ep 1 & 2) on BBC

• The Goes Wrong Show on Prime