Life

Family time this week, trying to decide when to fly to Berlin. Actually took a day off before I felt like I desperately needed one which was nice! Went shopping with my mom for my new iPad which was exciting.

Work

Last details – accessibility, KIF tests, and internationalisation. And sorting out ShareKit integration. Basically a lot of wrangling with dependencies, but checked off a bunch of things and feel like it was a productive week.

Media

Watching The Mindy Project Season 2 in the gym, which is amazing. And My Family at home. Still reading The Black Swan, and novels: The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me (took me a while to get into it but then really liked it), Love on the Rocks (read this a while ago, still good though), The Making of Us (loved this), and Polly (also read a while ago, I prefer her later books).

Product links Amazon.

Published

• Romania, Nov-Dec 2014
• Getting Started with Adobe Air (or, trying to)
• #iOSDevUK: Hamish Allan – The Pareto Principle

A new edition of Technically Speaking is out.

On The Internet

• Love this – “Shame and the public speaker: Wisdom from @BreneBrown” http://buff.ly/1z6d4T0  /by @dontgetcaught
• @hypatiadotca: Great piece on what 2014 meant to women in tech from @selenalarson: http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/11217/why-2014-was-actually-a-positive-year-for-women-in-tech/ … (w quote from me 🙂 )
• This, by @kelseyinnis, on politics in the tech industry and what we keep quiet about is amazing – http://buff.ly/13phSK8 
• Brilliant metaphor – Bad code isn’t Technical Debt, it’s an unhedged Call Option – http://buff.ly/1wc3FXQ  /via @gfodor
• Not just for hacker school – Four failure modes of Hacker Schoolers – http://buff.ly/16GqvlJ  /by @akaptur
• New fave travel app @hitlist_app – Build a list of where to travel, get alerts when cheap. http://buff.ly/16GT3vr  thanks @thedesignnomad
• I like this – How to avoid burnout – http://buff.ly/1rcZ7VF 
• I also thought that comment was absurd, or illustrative of the entire problem of SV: Seth Godin: The meritocracy trap http://buff.ly/1GWVnvf 
• I also thought that comment was absurd, or illustrative of the entire problem of SV: Seth Godin: The meritocracy trap http://buff.ly/1GWVnvf 
• Love this pinterest board for discouraging days – http://buff.ly/1rcYX0f 
• Ha, quite – 2014: the year women won? http://buff.ly/1CpzSDz 
• I like this, on improtu vacations close to home – http://buff.ly/1wgPOj5  /by @storming
• @hedgehogdays: pic.twitter.com/VMaAF2RdEc
• Good points here from @beerops – On Disconnecting – http://buff.ly/1wF0Ung 
• “Feelings are very expensive. You may as well try to conserve them. It’s what Beyonce would do.” http://buff.ly/13E5dmQ  /by @caraellison
• Interesting negotiation technique – strip-lining – http://buff.ly/1CvU9Hn 
• I’ve been thinking a bit about this since I started using RescueTime – How can we measure productivity accurately? http://buff.ly/1zfMYgd 
• Happy to have 3 of mine in here! “The Eloquent Woman’s top 10 public speaking posts for 2014” http://buff.ly/140KgDF 
• The evidence that North Korea hacked Sony is pretty flimsy – http://buff.ly/1vvApwd 
• Painting kitty! http://buff.ly/1BbwpUT 
• “If I could fix one thing about our industry… it would be… to increase awareness of… the failure modes” http://buff.ly/1zEnpKU  /v @dnf