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There’s a side of mental health that I haven’t openly talked about. That side is money. Not an easy thing to talk about. When I went off work I was on full paid leave for the maximum amount of days, I then went on to statutory. Statutory didn’t even cover my rent so I blew through all my savings while I was off work.

This is an unpublished post that I’ve only just got round to posting. I’m writing this 3 days before everyone finds out that I’ll be part of the Thursday keynote. Let me back track a bit.

This week has been tough. Fucking tough. I’d like to think I was transparent about things. I aim to be. But it’s tough. I skirt the line of being offensive/hyper critical/moaning old bastard. I have to be careful of what I say out of some kind of fucking moral code (sorry for the swearing mum).

This morning I decided to document all the issues I had with Spotify over the passed 4 hours. Here is a list: Persistent notifications - It’s gone from 3 to 1 without me doing anything! Flashing UI - Randomly flashes distracting me from work. Doesn’t remember position when viewing all albums. Playing a track in all albums view doesn’t appear on the specific album view - it appears like albums on artists pages aren’t linked. Shows wrong track playing in the bottom left corner. Giving the window focus took me to the top of the artists page for no reason. Worst thing is I pay for this as well. When did we come to accept bad software?

Last night my drush docset for Dash was accepted into the User Contributed section. This means you can now get the following drush commands offline through Dash: Drush Core Features Coder Search Api Module Builder Migrate Registry Rebuild If you want to use this with Zeal then you can download the docset from here:

Earlier on today I tweeted that I’d like a community option when submitting a talk to DrupalCon Europe I'd love to see an option for "Community" sessions at @DrupalConEur "Coding and Development" will have to do.

My colleague and friend Gem Hill has published her first podcast on Scrum and Agile. It’s an interesting insight into the Scrum/Agile process outside of a developers perspective. She raises some good points on the value of acceptance criteria and being flexible in it’s implementation.

Every morning I have the same routine, open email check for anything urgent, delete all mail from Jira (I get a lot) and then look at the agile board for highest priority issues.

There I said it. I’m angry I want to punch the wall till my fists bleed. I’m stressed and it’s starting to show, the cracks are appearing, I can feel my brain tearing itself apart.

Everything I know now and what I didn’t know then. # Medication is a scary subject. No one really likes to talk about it and who blames them? Talking about medication puts you out there, it’s easy to find out what those medications are prescribed for.