Archive: 2024-10
Week 199: Embra
The main excitement of the week was a trip to Edinburgh for the inaugural Haggis Ruby conference on Thursday. It revives the tradition of a Ruby conference in Scotland a full decade after the last Scottish Ruby Conference.
Week 198: Cultural extravaganza
This week, I saw two plays, two concerts, and two art exhibitions (although the last two were in the same place).
Week 197: Teams player
I started a new contract. So far, I have spent almost all my time on calls, which is absolutely my least favourite part of work in the modern age. In-person meetings could be bad enough, but it’s so much harder to have a conversation over dodgy, high latency connections with people talking over each other. It’s just really hard work.
Week 196: Plumb forgot
Have you ever seen the inside of your own stomach? I got to see mine, live when I had a capsule endoscopy on Wednesday. You swallow a little capsule, about 20 mm long, with a camera and some LEDs at each end, and a couple of coils around the middle, and it sends a video feed out to a recorder box via some antennae wrapped around your trunk.
Week 195: Bristol
We saw The Book of Mormon on Tuesday, my third musical in six days. I don’t think I usually manage more than one a year at most.