{"id":1902,"date":"2021-04-30T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2021-04-30T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T21:40:04","slug":"five-for-friday-april-30-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-april-30-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; April 30, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re already a third of the way through 2021. It&#8217;s still a wild world, but I&#8217;m signed up to get my first vaccine dose on Monday, so that light at the end of the tunnel is looking just a little bit brighter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s some stuff from my world this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I wrote another article for TestProject &#8211; this one on a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.testproject.io\/2021\/04\/27\/learning-automation-the-collaborative-way\/\">better (and frankly, more obvious) way to learn test automation.<\/a><\/li><li>I joined the club of people with big monitors this week when I got this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/computing\/monitors\/uhd-and-wqhd\/34-sj55w-ultra-wqhd-monitor-ls34j550wqnxza\/\">34&#8243; Samsung monitor<\/a>. I&#8217;m happy to say that my 4+ year old GTX 1060 can drive it at 3440&#215;1440 at 75hz (along with an older monitor at 1920&#215;1080. With this monitor, I&#8217;m also using my mac more as a secondary machine.<\/li><li>If anyone on my team reads this, they&#8217;ll agree that I bring up the need frame conversations to help others get the most out of a conversation. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefirstminute.chrisfenning.com\/\">First Minute by Chris Fenning<\/a> is a great book to understand framing (Framing = (Context + Intent + Key Message)). It&#8217;s a quick read, and well worth it. <\/li><li>Yet-another &#8211; but also a good <a href=\"https:\/\/amattn.com\/p\/the_big_guide_to_one_on_ones_1_1s_for_managers.html\">write up \/ guide on 1:1 meetings<\/a>.<\/li><li>Finally, a really good article on s<a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2021-04-29-scaling-monorepo-maintenance\/\">calaing mono repos at git<\/a>. A lot here to learn for those (like me) who are wary of mono repos.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re already a third of the way through 2021. It&#8217;s still a wild world, but I&#8217;m signed up to get my first vaccine dose on Monday, so that light at the end of the tunnel is looking just a little bit brighter. Here&#8217;s some stuff from my world this week. I wrote another article for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}