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Weeknotes

  • Weeknotes 2024-12-20

    Make a mess clean a mess

    I tell my kids this all the time. This week I made the mess. Long story short, with Power Pages and Power Platform I was given the choice of “blue door” and “blue door” and I investigated, thought I experimented and when it came to click and squint…. I picked the wrong “blue”. 

    When doing so, it brought in a flood of things into the “solution” we didn’t want.

    Clean up was just as slow. Do you want to remove the purple thing or the purple thing. Luckily, I was able to find a way ( through a series of 4 clicks… over and over… ) which which was which.

    The Team Onion

    Read The Team Onion this week in search of more comms ideas for the day job. I bought it right before postal strike, I was the silly one who picked “regular mail”.

    I thought I would never read it, but today, I finally got the book!

    It’s one of these things that deceptively simple, but breaking down has some very interesting applications.

    Time to throw it against the company wall, and see if it sticks.

  • Weeknotes 2024-12-13

    Weeknotes 2024-12-13

    Rocky week. I’ve been suffering from Vertigo all week, for some strange reason. Sooo dizzy from it all! 🤢

    All my memories of the week have splashed out overboard from my brain so we’ve lost a few good souls on this weeks cruise.

    • I keep bugging work on Internal Communications. I feel like I’m screaming into the void at this moment.
    • Going to give the old Twenty Twenty Five theme a college try.
      • There’s a few things that don’t quite translate.
      • I’ve lost a bit of functionality and customizations. Where’s the custom css?
      • Do I really need to make a whole block plugin to prefix my name with a single character? That doesn’t seem right.
      • I feel like tinkering when I can.
    • Really thinking about ActivityPub, just no time…
      • Replacing Scrobble with something federated
      • Mixing MusicBrains with something federated
    • Trying to find tinker time, it’s just not top of the list… which is long… and now a bit rocky and flailing in the wind.

    Have a good week folks. I’m going to keep taking drugs and holding onto anything sturdy.

    Photo by ZENG YILI on Unsplash

  • Weeknotes 2024-12-06

    So long and that’s for all the follicles. That’s a wrap to Movember.

    This week I came across GitLab’s Handbook! How have I not seen this or read this before!? It’s amazing from an org comms perspective.

    I’m starting to see if I can make changes to the day job to veer this way. It’s gonna be tough, but I think worth it. Here’s some of the hurtles:

    • The team doesn’t default to share.
    • Git will probably not fly with most of the company – unlike at GitLab were if you don’t at least understand basic git, you have bigger problems.
      • Day job has SharePoint, but SharePoint? Can SharePoint work??? 🤷
        • Hint: I tinkered, and it might be possible.
        • We’ve got Microsoft 365 and I’m trying to champion the toolset. I’m a use-it-if-you-got-it, use-it-more-if-you’re-paying-for-it kinda guy.
    • We are all-remote, and prefer synchronous work
    • No one seems to write anything that comes across my desk at least.
    • Did I mention the team doesn’t default to share?

  • Weeknotes 2024-11-29

    Movember is coming to an end. Thank you to everyone whose donated.

    Let’s see…. this week 🤔… this week 🤔…

    • I used my todo list
    • Get new phone. I’m feel like the only person who won’t go big, sticking with the iPhone SE ( now 3rd gen )
    • New cell provider. It’s time. The old one was way to much. And I’m Canadian, so that’s way way way way too much.
    • Keep reading. Agile Conversations
    • Keep designing my life. Still hung on Odyssey plan. More an issue with making time at this point I think? My therapist might disagree.

  • Weeknotes 2024-11-22

    I’ll admit – I’m struggling a bit. Which is expected with the B-Day coming up. I spin into a well every year questioning everything, wondering where I’ve been and where I’m going.

    Was I the navigator I hoped for?
    Nope

    Will I be next week?
    Probably not

    Am I ok with that?
    Meh 🤷

    Can I do anything about it?
    These weeknotes, listen to good music, love my kids, keep working on Designing my Life, movembering, general fun, playing with various fediverse sites

    Here’s an interesting idea
    Replace Scrobbling with something connected to ActivityPub. It can ingest Scrobble and then let you do more.