Tag: automattic
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Found GCADM5E Rembrandt park #2
On my way out for pizza with my work colleagues, a quick and easy find in the first place I looked. SL, TFTC!
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Found GCA7Q4A Elephant Parade
Big thanks to the cache owner for their note. Somehow I'd not seen the obvious route. Followed a family of ducks and soon found the cache location. FP awarded in part for the lovely cache but mostly for the attentive CO who posted a note so promptly. TFTC!
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Found GCA1JJ5 Gemaal Mercatorstraat
After failing to find nearby GCA7Q4A "Elephant Parade" owing to construction work, I was hopeful of a find here. The coordinates put me exactly on top of a likely hiding place, and with a little exploration (and some pretending to tie my shoes!) I had the cache in my hand. SL, TFTC. Listened for water pumping but couldn't hear any over the traffic noise, I'm afraid!
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Icebreakers - Heraldry and Compairs
For my team meetup, I developed a couple of icebreaker games - Heraldry and Compairs - and I'd love to share them with you, if you're interested!
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Did not find GCA7Q4A Elephant Parade
Finding the elephant and the numbers was easy. But some construction is happening at the GZ and I couldn't see a safe/permitted way to get close. 😢
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Found GCADMXH Rembrandt park #3
I've recently changed team at work, so my new team and I have gotten together - from the UK, France, Poland, India and South Africa - here in Amsterdam to meet up in person and do some work "together" for a change: normally we work entirely distributed. After our day of work we did an escape room together, then on our way to dinner I dragged them out of their way a bit to find this geocache.
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Found GC7B9CP Platform 9 3/4
This checkin to GC7B9CP Platform 9 3/4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Even on a Monday morning the muggles are lining up to hold the trolley. Not me. As an actual magician, I've no need for such frivolities. Instead, as I'm passing anyway on my way to a train …
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Found GC1TK6P Narrow Minded
QEF while out hunting for some breakfast this morning between trains on my journey from Oxford to Amsterdam for a work meetup. Lovely thematic cache container in a great spot. FP awarded. TFTC. Hey, this is my 100th post of 2024! Neat!
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Automattic Switch
Fire, my team at work, has been extinguished and I've been moved to Team Desire. I've struggled to find my feet, but I think I'm settling in now.
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Home Page, 50% Off!
By optimising a few bits of my homepage I've halved its size, which incidentally takes me up from the third to the second league of 512kb club members!
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The Stupidest CSS
Yesterday, I wrote the stupidest CSS code of my entire web development career. The code itself wasn't the stupid bit; my misinterpretation of the designer's wishes was what caused the problem!
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Out as Poly at Work
I've been "out" about my polyamory in every job I've had for the last 20+ years. I recommend it.
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Automattic Shakeup
Matt's announced a re-organisation we've been doing in Automattic. I like it, because it reaffirms our commitment to doing the most good for our users (whether they're paying us, or not, or even our competitors). But I don't understand how we persuade the world how committed we are to it.
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[Bloganuary] Dream Job
I might already be doing my dream job. It's not perfect, but it more than makes up for its imperfections by allowing me to pay my mortgage. If money was no object, I'd still do my voluntary work with Three Rings... so maybe THAT'S my dream job??
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Magician Roles
Because I work somewhere hip enough to let people tweak their job titles, mine is "Code Magician".
LinkedIn isn't as hip as Automattic, though, because they keep emailing me sector updates... for the "Magician" sector... 😅