Blog posts
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🏕️ Devcamp 2019 thoughts
After months of planning, deliberating over talks and hoping it would all come together, Campaign Monitor’s Devcamp for 2019 is over. A great 3 days of sessions and hangs was had and I’m so glad we go...
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Things I Spend Money On 2019
It’s often said that a lot of your money goes out regular expenses. Especially if you set it to auto-renew a subscription, you never even realise that you’re spending (and missing out on) the money in...
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🌟 Achievement Unlocked: January 2019
Just before writing this, I was: Reading some interesting roundups of apps and interviews over at The Sweet Setup. This past month, I achieved: Went to a SoFar Sounds gig for the first time! 🌺 Saw F...
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The surprising effectiveness of launch checklists
This week, our team launched a new user experience flow to a percentage of new signups. No big deal, except that it touched some critical billing flows. We’re pretty risk averse to touching those. So...
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🌟 Achievement Unlocked: December 2018
Just before writing this, I was: Waking up! This past month, I achieved: 🎵 Saw Jeff Rosenstock live 🎄 Survived three work Christmas parties in 4 days 🤓 Started learning Typescript 📕 Read “Has The...
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📚 Books of 2018
My reading journey in 2018 This year I rediscovered the magic of the local library in encouraging steady, sustainable reading. The past few years I would go into (mostly independent) booksellers on a...
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🌟 Achievement Unlocked: November 2018
And thus another month is over - November was huge! Just before writing this, I was: Sleeping in 😴 This past month, I achieved: Going to WebDirections Summit and learning a fucktonne of stuff. The o...
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🌟 Achievement Unlocked: October 2018
Just before writing this, I was: Finishing off my migration to Travis CI from CircleCI. This past month, I achieved: 🧘 Doing yoga on a Thursday night for the first time - turns out that the Thursda...
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🌟 Achievement Unlocked: September 2018
Just before writing this, I was: Listening to an episode of HTTP 203. I am not usually a big fan of this podcast, and haven’t been regularly listening to it, but it’s been quite good tonight listening...
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DDD 2018: A reflection
This past weekend I was able to attend DDD Sydney, an awesome non-profit inclusive developer conference. I had a great time catching up with some friends, make some new friends, and learn some new tec...