A horribly hot week, peaking on Friday when I measured 39.8°C in the shade outside my window, and a foot-searing 57.3°C from the paving slabs in the sunshine. I was working at home that day, but managed to keep things just about bearable by shutting all the windows and curtains and having a big fan running.
We had some work experience students at work this week. Brad did a good job of organising things for them, including shadowing people from all the team projects for an hour or two. It’s always a reminder of how many layers of things there are to know when you have someone like that working with you … OK, We’re adding a query to a GraphQL API, which means … Let’s start with a test. This is ExUnit … oh, and it’s written in Elixir … wait, writing a test first probably seems odd – have you seen TDD before? We’re going to mock this function, which we do when … and so on. No heads exploded, and they claimed to have found it interesting, at least to our faces.
I think I’ve now got my old yellow bike back into a rideable condition. I gave up trying to adjust the front shifter (the spring doesn’t seem powerful enough to pull the back onto the small ring), but unlike last time (2009) instead of giving up and buying a fixed gear bike I found a second hand 105 mech on eBay for a fiver, which works perfectly. I’ve not ridden it yet, but assuming it’s all good that takes me up to 4½ working bikes (the mountain bike is borderline).
Despite the heat, I managed to drag myself round the Stowmarket Friday 5 (33°C!) and the Kesgrave 10k on Sunday (ten degrees cooler, but still felt really warm). Then a bunch of us finished the week with the semi-traditional Sunday evening beers and food at the Cricketers.