Weeknotes 79

How to communicate effectively as a developer is really great (via Chris Coyier).

Communicating effectively as an engineer means empathically increasing the resolution of your writing.

Empathy is often lacking in the workplace.

I saw Avatar: The Way of Water on Boxing Day, which was visually stunning but ultimately a bit boring. I fell asleep.

Tenderlove wrote a Year in Review 2022 for Ruby and Rails. Lots of interesting improvements have made their way into Ruby this year. I’m particularly interested to see the various developer experience improvements like error_highlight (and integration with Rails) and Ruby LSP.

My burning shame: I fitted my house with three wood-burning stoves – You might want to reconsider that wood burning stove.

Nothing much going on between Christmas and New Year as you’d expect. In the lead up to 10 days off I had many ideas about all the productive things I would do. Instead, I sat and watched telly, doomscrolled, and worried. Good times.

Bring on 2023, I suppose.