I had the pleasure of having my colleague DaShaun Carter join me for Spring Office Hours this week. He covers the concept of Office Hours in his post on Off-Stage Advocacy. We revisited the challenge of keeping software patched and up to date, a topic that we’ve covered many times before. But this time something clicked for me. I realised why some teams were finding it difficult to implement the patterns. It wasn’t a technical challenge at all. They were struggling to relate what we were showing them and their daily responsibilities. This felt like something I could help with and spent some time pulling together my own flavour of the demo. It’s not quite there yet, but I’m surprisingly excited to be talking about software upgrades and patching.
Working on the demos for Spring made me realise how little technical work I’ve done over the last couple of months. It took me a while to build up some muscle memory again. Also, AI coding tools are absolutely terrible at fixing character escaping that is nested 3-4 layers deep.
Oscar and I have enjoyed some beautiful journeys to school this week, despite the rain. I’m really pleased that I made the effort to bring the camera instead of the phone.
This week saw me make my first trip to the office. It was really nice to catch up with colleagues in person, but I don’t miss the commute at all. The journey did give me a chance to finish listening to the audiobook of The Martian. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’ve seen the film but, as with all films, I don’t remember much about it. I went to go and see if the film was available to stream and was surprised at how different my mental imagery of the Hab was from that depicted in the film.
We made marmalade over the weekend. We’ve attempted it many times before but never managed to get it to set. It seems impossible to get it to the required 105ºC without boiling over. This time I tried reducing the heat to keep it just below the point at which it boiled over and waiting far longer than expected. It hit the magic 105ºC and we now have 10 jars of perfectly set marmalade. They won’t last long.
I’ve been thinking about:
- Learning some typography basics - Typography in 10 minutes
- What an AI Curriculum might look like? - Finding the Goldilocks Zone for AI in Curriculum
- What is the web we want? – A tiny website by Henry
before we called it homework, it was fun light and dark a good morning low tide standing guard reading corner coffee table book
