Just finished 'Deceptive Patterns: Exposing the Tricks Tech Companies Use to Control You' by Harry Brignull - very illuminating book. Highly recommend anyone working for a tech company in a design, product or engineering capacity to give this a read

I definitely feel like a JavaScript developer trying to use TypeScript a lot of the time, so doing some Total TypeScript learning today to try and improve

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After a few weeks off between jobs, I started working at @octopus.energy yesterday - it was a really good first day exploring the office and meeting folks and I went home feeling super excited to get started! I cannot wait to get to grips with things and start making proper contributions.

Made it to CoffeeOps! Proud of myself because I completely forgot about it last time 😅 There are other people here, promise, they’re just getting coffee

Spending my evening with tea and a book. Bliss!

I grew up on these streets

Oh, go on then... Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,380,288!

Giving this book another go. Am feeling more at ease in my role than the last time I tried to read it (hooray, growth!) but I still feel like I have a lot to learn