Work
Following on from last week's observation: again, my job holds disproportionate sway over my evaluation of the week. But how can it not? It's like 35% of my waking time and about 70% of my useful waking time.
The Good Stuff list that follows isn't long, but I think that's part of what makes it good; there just wasn't a lot of variety this week, good or bad. And that's good!
We knew what we were aiming for and we went off and worked through our respective challenges and made decent progress and that's cool. It's like… the work was more "spherical", you know? Soap bubbles are round because it's the optimal ratio of volume to surface area? This week felt good in that sort of way. Self-contained tasks with a high volume-to-surface-area — signal to noise? — ratios.
Good stuff
- Nice, clear division of labour between Backend and Frontend
- Meeting and overcoming challenges
- Going above and beyond to manage peripheral risks (eg Google Analytics reporting)
I always feel kinda dirty writing imperative Javascript funtions, and hand-rolled form validation logic seems just so anachronistic in this brave new world of frontend frameworks.
But what can I do? I argued for a server-side solution but UX is the prime concern. I'm still hopeful I can get a no-script version working and then the new JS will be progressive enhancement.
Anyway, it's not often I'm in JS land and I did enjoy it. I discovered a cute way to destructure nodeList.every into a local boolean, and I used a customEvent for the first time to link the recaptcha callback to the form UI.
It's almost like all that time I spent practicing developer shit is finally paying off.
Play
See, if I can get my sense of satisfaction from work, I don't have much in the way of hunger for anything else.
Good stuff
- doing wordle and connections with Rowan in the mornings
- getting pico-8 running on emulationstation on the desktop
- ...then on retropie on a raspi-3 on the Lenovo 1:1 monitor ('squarestation')
- randomly intense conversations with 2 separate members of staff at Lush in Glasgow city centre
- parkrun: decent time (32m) not horrendous
- getting slightly ahead on C's birthday (gifts, cards, cake)
- lots of weird dreams that weren't particularly about my mortality and wasted youth