Monday, July 17, 2023

I’ve attempted to setup Zettel Notes on my phone to have low friction note taking on the move. I honestly can’t remember if the draft flag in Hugo just works or if it’s something I have to configure. I believe it’s the former.

Day Drinking

Yesterday was spent day drinking in Ouseburn with mates. Unfortunately there was some kind of festival on which made for lots of crowd dodging. We were able to find a few quieter spots after an hour or two.

On-boarding Contractors

The day job is going to be annoying this week. Lead developer’s final day is tomorrow. A new automated test writing contractor is starting today, which we were informed about at ten minutes to five on Friday. Not only does this mean lots of introduction and on-boarding work, but needs lots of thought and discussion about what they should and shouldn’t have access to, and how to achieve said access.

It’s also going to be a new challenge attempting to communicate with someone from Ukraine whose English is good but not fluent, given I’m based in the North East of England and my English is good but not fluent. 😅

Pipes

A big part of the knowledge handover at work if for the Azure Pipelines used for our build / test / deploy nonsense. I’m really struggling with it all. It’s a hard thing to get my head around, not helped by Microsoft doing what they usually do: name things badly and soft deprecate entire feature sets in favour of new different but similarly named features.

Currently trying to figure out the differences between Classic Pipelines, Release pipelines, and YAML pipelines as well as Resource Groups, Deployment Groups, Environments. And of course Artefacts are not to be confused with artefacts.