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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.

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of presenting at DrupalCamp London and I’ve been blown away by the feedback that I’ve received form people. The slides from my session can be found here:

The title of the latest book I’m reading struck a cord with me. It’s called “The Surface Detail” by Iain M. Banks. Without too many spoilers it’s about virtual hells. Something which those who live with depression should be well aware of.