Week 405: Cool Nick

LeadDev week. As is tradition, I left feeling so incredibly tired. You could pour me into a bucket and tip me into the bog. Just flush me, let me travel through the sewage system and hang out with the fat bergs. I gave a workshop on Engineering Strategy again. Gave myself a little thrill by discovering that my timers were all out by one minute in the 10 minutes before I was due to go on stage. There were about 100 people in the workshop which is a good turn-out but also gives me a sort of vertigo. I’ve put all my envelope privacy patterns over here at https://alicebartlett.co.uk/envelopes. In some ways it is tempting to try to categorise them but when I look at other people’s attempts at these I feel very unmoved, so other than noting the origin of the post mark I’ll leave it at that. My dad has given me an envelope from a letter he got in 1990 from the USSR to add to my collection. He refuses to let me call it “fan mail” but it is, factually, a letter, from a person expressing…