Category: Misc
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Reading 2024
I think I read thirty nine books from twenty five different authors, though Good Reads thinks I read 41 books and has listed 39. Twelve of the books were rereads of books I’ve read in previous years, mostly the Song of Ice and Fire series and The Stormlight Archive, as I planned last year. Reading…
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Staying at Automattic
It’s been a rollercoaster couple of weeks at Automattic. Lawsuits have been filed. Colleagues have been lost . The misalignment between Automattic and WP Engine burst into the open a few weeks ago, and has escalated from there. At the root of it, is a breaking of the reciprocity norm – the moral expectation that…
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Reading 2023
I read 14,936 pages across twenty six books from fourteen authors. Four of the books were rereads of books I’ve read in previous years. I finished reading the Wheel of Time series that I started last year. I enjoyed the series as a whole. It was a bit of a slog in places though and…
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Xmas projects
Amidst the festivities, games and socialising that the christmas season brings, I had four projects lined up to take care of during the christmas break. I’ve completed two, with a third nearly done and some progress made on the fourth. The first project was the one I completed last. I’ve set up the vesa mount…
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Reading 2022
I’m inspired this year by one of my colleagues to do a little more than just a list of their books and a brief thought. I read 23,154 pages across fifty books from twenty-nine authors. 13 of the books were rereads of books I’ve read in previous years. I really enjoyed reading the Kingkiller Chronicles…
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Reading 2021
Shiang: Empire of Salt book II by Conn Iggulden, second part of the trilogy I started reading at the end of last year. The Sword Saint: Empire of Salt book III by Conn Iggulden Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. This felt big. Henry VIII is kind of a big deal in British history, his marriages…
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Reading 2020
Used to spend my commute reading, which obviously didn’t happen after March. I read a bit less fiction this year and hardly any re-reads. First Law: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. really well written, classic fantasy. Loved this and the direct sequel. The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. Interesting sci-fi, loved the human computer. follow…
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Weeknotes: 11th May to 17th May
What would you have liked to do more of? More focus time. It felt like too much of my week was playing work Tetris. To do this I’m going to try the trick of blocking out some time in my calendar and using skypes red light. More time on the enes project, the time I…
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Weeknotes: 4th May to 10th May
What would you have liked to do more of? Move on to implementing a couple of bug fixes I planned. What did you learn? I knew of Wardley maps but my knowledge came from looking at some in some blog posts. Reading the book has shown me not only the maps but the other ideas around them,…
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Weeknotes: 27th April to 3rd May
Decided to try writing weeknotes again, this time following a bit more of a structured approach inspired by Andy Callow. What would you have liked to do more of? Contributing to the opportunity overview for one of the potential projects I’m involved in starting up. I think I can make some really valuable contributions to writing…
Dean Sas 