July 2022 update

Ok I may have missed May and June updates, so this one will be a catch-up. I've got some good excuses though, which are:

1. My cat died. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I always thought I'd be the strong one in that type of situation, but I was absolutely broken. I still can't bring myself to write much about it.
2. I'm buying a house. We were sale agreed on one, it fell through, and now we're in final stages with another. They say it's the most stressful thing you'll ever do. I can attest to that...
3. Movements in Flipdish. I've shifted my role slightly, with a shiny new title: "Director of Product - Client Experience". Sounds fancy. With it comes a renewed focus on building a world class Product team and a fresh look at some strategic initiatives or the medium and long term.
4. I had minor surgery for a hernia. Deadlifts finally got me. Not being able to work out for weeks is affecting me though, mentally and physically.
5. I was on holiday in Corfu for a week. Such a nice break.

Ok that's the excuses out of the way. Some other general updates

Pushpop

I've been playing with Nuxt3. I've loved Vue for quite a while, and when I heard Nuxt3 reached release candidate stage, I had to take a look. I used this an excuse to build Pushpop, a cross-platform solution like Pushbullet (they don't have an iOS app and I recently moved to iOS).

So far, it's been OK. I've been using Capacitor for the mobile side of things, and explored Tauri and Electron building desktop versions. I may also build a browser extension, I'm not sure!

It's in what can only be described as a pre-alpha stage at the moment, but it mostly works. Can't promise it won't break imminently though.

Waking Up App

I've been feeling the stress/anxiety again lately. An ad for the Waking Up app from Sam Harris hit me at just the right time, with their new course Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. So far, it's really nice. Who knows, this might be a segue for me back into mindfulness meditation 🤞🏼.

First (two) podium finishes in karting

After 2 years of racing, I'm finally on the podium, twice in third. The first one was in Athboy, Co.Meath and was tainted by the fact that I may have accidentally been not so sportsmanlike and not given a fellow racer enough room around a corner. Eddy, if you're reading, this, it wasn't intentional and apologies again.

The second one was in Adventure Park in Cork and was incredibly frustrating, as I battled for the lead for most of the race, and it was only the other drivers' extremely aggressive (and illegal IMO) driving that kept me behind. In the end, we were both overtaken and I settled for third. I could have been first. Next time...

Blog design update

What do you think? I quite like it. Let me know :)

Hope all is good with you.