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Weeknotes

Weekly(?) reflections on my work and beyond over the past week.

• Weeknote 23: Thunderstorm Published: 22 March 2025

  Swapping the website from black to blue, also feedback forms

• Weeknote 22: People yelling Published: 14 March 2025

  On taking a break and team processes

• Weeknote 21: Clear blue sky Published: 2 March 2025

  Feature flag configs, link hover states and starting too many things

• Weeknote 20: Flagging Published: 22 February 2025

  The week where I remember how to set cookies

• Weeknote 19: Pub disco Published: 16 February 2025

  Feature management is hard, prototyping is hard, it's all hard

• Weeknote 18: Posh new mug Published: 8 February 2025

  I just can't stop writing about github actions

• Weeknote 17: Reverse dry January Published: 1 February 2025

  Still lost in GitHub's docs

• Weeknote 16: Tiny Oprah Published: 24 January 2025

  Mostly making code style tests happy

• Weeknote 15: Second breakfast Published: 18 January 2025

  Owen struggles to edit a markdown file

• Weeknote 14: Paddington (the bear) Published: 12 January 2025

  Owen's Christmas slideshow (and some stuff about release automation)

• Weeknote 13: A massive greyhound Published: 15 December 2024

  Owen complains about Octokit and then the structure of the civil service

• Weeknote 12: Boxes for the move Published: 1 December 2024

  Big changes, events, soup dumplings and being hungover

• Weeknote 11: Fish and chips Published: 22 November 2024

  How I nearly finished some work and our GitHub fell over

• Weeknote 10: Bass in a basement Published: 15 November 2024

  Featuring a soup recipe

• Weeknote 9: Springtime for my calendar Published: 9 November 2024

  My week as a content designer

• Weeknote 8: Cartoon food Published: 1 November 2024

  Keeping things chill and listening to a bunch of music

• Weeknote 7: Smashed fruit Published: 26 October 2024

  Some thoughts about running projects, hyperlinks and stepped on fruit

• Weeknote 6: Cookies Published: 18 October 2024

  Includes a very small essay on being consumed by a CSS problem

• Weeknote 5: Hot pot Published: 11 October 2024

  I was ill but I worked anyway and it cost me

• Weeknote 4: Getting rid of my coffee grinders Published: 4 October 2024

  Working with assistive tech is a roller coaster

• Weeknote 3: Long legs Published: 27 September 2024

  A weeknote that mentions 2 separate developers on paternity leave

• Weeknote 2: The Details component could be yr life Published: 20 September 2024

  On investigation, feedback and being tired

• Weeknote 1: Sobering thoughts Published: 13 September 2024

  Accessibility thinking, coffee drinking

• Weeknote Zero Published: 8 September 2024

  The blog post where I say I'll start writing weeknotes