weeknotes for w/c 24/02/25

I've been absolutely shattered this week, and didn't get much done personally. barely managed to get anything crossed off my to-do list, so I'm a little disappointed.

• been wrestling with some tech at work, had some realisations
  • AWS "serverless" local developer experience is absolute shit, so I'm putting together a business case to transition from Lambdas to Docker containers deployed on ECS with Fargate. I've never really been a serverless advocate, except in the case of event-driven systems
  • discovered GitLab search is shit for code, and I don't think it even searches the content of the repo. to search through any repositories, I have to clone it locally which is incredibly irritating. I miss GitHub search, which is miles better
• finished a couple of units on the Machine Learning Engineer Pathway for Google Cloud. did a WQU course a long, long time ago, and I actually like GCP quite a bit so I think it's a worthwhile investment.
• secured tickets for Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House next Monday
• got tickets to Cloud Native Rejekts on March 30th and 31st. tickets have all sold out, but I'll hopefully see you there! also convinced one of my Swiss friends to come
  • got called a thought leader. I loved it
• had an amazing nap, fell asleep after work for ~5 hours on Tuesday
• met up with the organisers of Pride in Tech on Friday to propose a talk for the 20th. they should be announcing it next Monday. planning to give my Cult of Done talk that I delivered at HalfStack London last year
• went to the Campaign Lab annual report launch on Wednesday night, it's awesome to hear about the progress over the past year and I'm glad to have contributed to it in a small way. was lovely to meet so many talented technologists and generally cool people
• I miss when the internet felt ‘smaller’ and I had some idea of what was going on on social media
• went to urgent care on Saturday for some really back back pain, got prescribed painkillers and told to rest.
  • my setup might do some of it. my current chair offers shite lumbar support. I’m considering a Herman Miller Aeron chair at some point, but they're so expensive
• I slightly feel like I'm lurching from thing to thing. March is going to be particularly busy for me, but I'll live.
  • next week is going to be absolutely packed and I'm dreading it. Opera on Monday, codebar Festival talk on Tuesday, induction to work makerspace on Wednesday, ordering Fringe food on Friday and then the Fringe itself on Saturday.
  • codebar Festival Fringe is on next week, and it's gonna be a blast. I'm a little terrified because I'm bringing together five distinct friend groups of mine in one room