At least 2 people, not counting me. Long time reader, first time subscriber, thanks for the work

And also with you 🤝

Absolutely yes!

This is such a lovely tale of Tom’s journey at dxw - thanks for writing it up!

Interesting to see the growth in such a short time!

My favorite bit I’ve been doing recently is pretending that my wife is a Twitch streamer who streams “working on spreadsheets” so whenever I see her with a spreadsheet open I go “what’s up chat! 50 subscribes and I add a pivot table” etc. She loves it, as you can imagine.

Same on all counts except being on call 🙌

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You'll be able to find my latest blog posts there, and subscribe to get email updates. I'm hoping to be adding more content over there, including things like engineering management templates and guides.

Oh hi! Hope SOTB is good 🙌

A half eaten bag of Marks & Spencer Christmas range “Pigs In Blankets Combo Mix” crisps I bought this week. It is September.

WTAF I literally just got back from my summer holiday. Still ate them tho

Tube recorded announcement asking me to be careful if I’ve been drinking. At 9:20am 😅

This looks v cool Laura!

Excited to share that I’m going back to Lead Dev Berlin in December to talk about decision making in leadership, woop!

I’d like to do some research: what’s the best talk that you’ve ever seen? I’m keen to see examples of great talks, so I can learn and make this one even better than last time 🥰

You always look great, I love how well put together you dress with good taste about colours and textures x

Hehe yeah I was gonna say this is def the other way around in certain circles 😬

😍😍😍

Also enjoying Nickys in popular culture lately

Pub blackboard says “good boy corner” with piles of toys and water bowls

Pub round the corner from work. Wish I could live there

:-(

There is, they just don’t want to

Wtf no

Sometimes I have a bacon & hash brown bap from the greasy spoon Cafe Plaka (much recommended if you are in Kings X), that is real good. But it’s all the way over the other side from no-longer-pret where I already was so I could, to put it bluntly, not be fucked

Ahhhh! I was already feeling quite extravagant just having that 🤣

Also that!! And the one near us is tiny so not much choice.

I did! Did I do it wrong?

Well, I wouldn’t usually have Maccy D’s for breakfast, but they’ve closed the Pret by the office

Large tabby lounging in my kitchen. Not my cat.

Playing feather toys with not my cat

Large tabby cat trying to catch a feather toy

Not my cat, but he’s having a very nice time

🙌

Taking the Elizabeth Line from Whitechapel all the way to Reading. Exciting!