Melbourne has been under some form of restrictions for the past 183 days, claimed by some to be the most restrictive in the world. (Personally I think this is being a bit dramatic, but it’s likely not far off the truth.) Since August 2nd, we’ve been limited to a 5km radius from our homes with very few exceptions, and only one person per day can leave the house, once, for one of four approved reasons. For the most part we were not allowed to visit one another, and there was an overnight curfew imposed on the same date.
I decided to blow things up and start again, so I’ve moved everything across from my old WordPress.com blog to here. It’s a static site powered by Hexo, so it’s pretty darn fast, and it’s hosted at Netlify.
Here’s a photo of the cat we found on the roof of the construction site next door. We’re trying to find her family, but she fits in very well with our existing menagerie.
Prompted by this article, I am drinking a gallon (3.96L) of water per day. No superpowers yet. I am drinking a lot less coffee though, which is surprising.
The new Ruby AU site launched today, and it is very pretty. Congrats to the committee on completing a long process of renewal (a process that began about three years ago, if I remember correctly) and thanks to Deming Factor for the fantastic design.
Meetups are a pretty key feature of working in a distributed company. They’re how you get to really know your colleagues, how you build a culture, and how you build and sustain relationships with people who are otherwise just text on a screen.
Rails Camps are one of my favourite things, which explains why this most recent one was my seventh in three-ish years, and the second I’ve co-organised. There’s just something about getting away from civilisation, spending some time with good humans, hacking away on a project, and playing Werewolf all night.
An accurate representation of this year
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Pre-rafting
