Category: Life
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Picking up a brush
Aside from user-interface sketches and diagrams of computer systems, I don’t think I’ve drawn anything for 23 years – since the moment art became optional at school, and I gleefully threw in the brushes. At the time, I found art frustrating. I wanted to reproduce the ideas in my head, or the basket of fruit…
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Travelling in 2024
Valentines get-away February brought a chance to spend some time alone with Sara during an overnight Valentine’s break in the Peak District. We decided to walk from Hope, up Lose Hill, along the Great Ridge and then down to Edale. I’ve never walked the ridge from east to west before. The walk up the hill…
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2023 in review
Travelling I had a bit less travelling for work this year, but it was counter-acted by a lot of personal travel. For easter we visited Norway, we visited Alesund, Stavenger and Olden along with their fjords. Olden and the fjords it sits within – Innvikfjorden and Nordfjord were the highlight of the trip. We fell…
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Being hired at Automattic
I started working for Automattic as a senior back-end software engineer in June. It’s an amazing place to work, the culture and processes are really distinctive – which I’ll explain more about another time. For the uninitiated, Automattic are the people who make WordPress.com, tumblr, Pocket Casts and much more besides. When I was considering…
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Weeknotes: 16th-22nd March
Monday was quite a stressful day with the uptick in coronavirus seriousness. Hugo has been learning about how to use Google classrooms at school and his excitement about that was quite infectious. We decided to postpone our scheduled release which has some really exciting features like contract issuing and online offer/contract acceptance. It’s been an…
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A new addition
Earlier this month, Hugo Francis Sas was unexpectedly born a few weeks early. Sara-Kate and our little child are both healthy and strong. Parenthood didn’t get off to the best start, as I said, he arrived four weeks early which resulted in him staying at the hospital for a week until he was strong enough…
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2006 reviewed
Here’s a quick summary of what has happened to me during 2006. It seems as time passes I blog less and less, the adage of ‘the more interesting your life gets, the less time you have to blog about it’ probably proving true. It means it’s hard to remember things you’ve done too. January Started…
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Lifestyle changes
I’ve noticed my lifestyle has changed quite a bit since starting my placement, in most ways good, in some bad. I guess starting work is probably the biggest lifestyle disruption you can have, with the exceptions of marriage and kids. I now get up at a reasonable time, I get up at times that I’d…
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Belated new years resolutions
While I’m doing lists. This year I intend to: be healthier – early starts at work and getting the car haven’t been the best things for me. Go to bed at normal times Do some excercise – I’ve already been Thai Boxing, once. It’s a start. Get things done Make a significant contribution to open…
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2005 reviewed
Here’s a quick run down of things that have happened in my world during 2005, it’s nice to look back and think. To summarise: Passed my driving test, fell back in love with linux, finished uni for a year, moved back home, got a car, started my work placement, went on holiday, got a laptop.…
Dean Sas 