Life
Met some new people, hung out with people again. Including lunch at Etsy, which was lovely. Also caught up with one of my friends on VC, which was awesome.
Made it to 5 in my 10 men in tech I don’t hate project! Feels like a milestone. I want to venture outside of Berlin now.
Set to leave Berlin March 3rd, and then after Amsterdam I’ll be heading to Malta for a week.
Work
Fixed the crash bug on iOS, which only occurred when compiler optimisations were on! Ended up being an off-by-1 error caused by rounding creating a theoretically unreachable value and accessing an array out of bounds. This is why coding in C is horrible (but – such fast performance).
Finished the UI on Android, added saving settings, and got cracking on the image processor. Writing tests!
The UI for GitHub appears to have broken, so I have had to retreat to the command line (why do we computer).
Finished prepping my mdevcon talk, got some good feedback. I’m pretty excited about it! Next: the workshop.
Announced our first Technically Speaking webinar Feb 12th. So excited!
Places
As usual went to my fave haunts: breakfast at the Croissanterie, Roamers, Chipps, and sushi at Tabibito.
Dinner Reisschale, pizza at Il Ritrovo, drinks and (terrible) tapas at Bateau Ivre, sandwich at Barcomi, hot chocolate at Myxa Cafe, breakfast at Zimt and Mehl, asian tapas at Transit, checked out the Neue Heimat market.
Went to the alley that houses three things that commemorate resistance against the Nazis, which is a view on the terrible history here that made me feel less disconsolate at the end of the day. First stop was the memorial Gedenkstätte Stille Helden, them the Anne Frank Zentrum, which was really moving [tweets]. I read the diary when I was a kid, but I learned there that she was actually working it into a book. Finally, the Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt which was pretty amazing. Firstly, it’s accessible (belatedly made me realise how most museums are not). Secondly, the stories! Otto was visually impaired himself and actually went off to rescue one of his employees who had been taken away. Wow.
Media
Watching Girls Season 2, which I’m pretty sure I don’t like. I think I just find every character kind of horrible in some way.
I still hate the Black Swan but I will finish it. Soon. I hope.
Novels: Me and My Sisters, The Secrets Sisters Keep (a pair, quite liked these), Rebuilding Coventry (by Sue Townsend, bit bizarre), Suddenly Single (part way through, not sure where it is going).
Published
- Rest Day – Buffer Day – Focus Day
- Some Things I’ve Learned About Performance on iOS
- Audio of How To Undermine Women Whilst Being “Nice”
A new edition of Technically Speaking is out.
On The Internet
- So much insight from the fabulous
@sarahmei – Pairing with Junior Developers – http://buff.ly/165xPr3 -
- I really like this by
@femgineer – Handling the Anxiety that Accompanies Ambition – http://buff.ly/1Do8mU5 - I’m So Sick and Tired of Men Marginalizing Women in Tech by
@benparr – http://buff.ly/166Kt9t /via@triketora -
- Sportsball hedgie! http://buff.ly/1z5cP9Z
- Note the “I have another Twitter account for following women”. Do I laugh or do I cry? https://medium.com/thelist/newsweek-allies-and-critique-8ffe11a1b5f2 … /by
@ellenchisa - Interesting – The Myth Of The Bell Curve: Look For The Hyper-Performers – http://buff.ly/1wLM2i5 /via
@DocOnDev -
- This is useful – Cofounder management – http://buff.ly/1AadDB0 /by
@harris /via@sfslim -
- This. This. This. https://twitter.com/jgoldfein/status/562424610432360449 …
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- “Why do women leave STEM? At the end of the day, we look at history and realize just how unfair the world is…” http://buff.ly/1tJgChA
- Are You Really Crazybusy, or Are You Just a Stressed-Out, Fear-Based A-hole? – http://buff.ly/1Lvtlds /via
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@stormy wrote a bit about our conversation on mobile – For good design add constraints to your web page – http://buff.ly/1Dt9plW - The continuing RTs of this little rant are making me so happy <3 thanks y’all https://twitter.com/catehstn/status/562703297354940417 …
- So true – “if she had been on board, you would have never shipped “I Can Be A Computer Engineer” with that dialogue” http://buff.ly/1z9ViNX
- oh this kitten, so cute – http://buff.ly/1u78fN1
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- This is huge – Twitter CEO: ‘We suck at dealing with abuse’ – http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/twitter-ceo-sent-memo-taking-personal-responsibility-for-the …
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- Backed a Kickstarter project for the first time because this book by
@eerichmond sounds amazing – http://buff.ly/1D1i804 /via@dianakimball - .
@alan_eustace is leaving google – seriously terrible news for women there – http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/03/alan-eustace-google/ … 🙁 - So many quotable things here – The Real Reason Women Freeze Their Eggs – http://buff.ly/1Kh45pR
- Sad to see something I worked on shut down. http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/22/google-maps-coordinate-closing/ …
- Love this – Mansplain is Australian word of the year – http://buff.ly/1KxZ6z7 /via
@ErinLouise - Sexism is making women sick – http://buff.ly/1I3tK7L /via
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- Love this review of innovating women – it’s not really limited to tech – http://buff.ly/16u2dvt
- This is great – Ethics in Publishing
@ModelViewMedia – http://buff.ly/1zc6XMl /by@shanley - I really like this by
@kwugirl – How to Be a Better Junior Developer – http://buff.ly/1DnCui5 -
- Super cute video of adorable baby animals – http://buff.ly/16DbEYY