{"id":2039,"date":"2022-03-25T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T22:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2022-03-25T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T22:06:33","slug":"five-for-friday-march-25-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-march-25-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; March 25, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another week where I&#8217;m really not happy with the state of the world. Between the war in Ukraine, ridiculous questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson, weirdness in general, I&#8217;ve needed the Internet to distract me more than ever. Here are a few of the things I&#8217;ve distracted myself with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/45300567-the-maidens\">Maidens by Alex Michaelides <\/a>this week because I loved the author&#8217;s previous book, The Silent Patient so much. Either I had too high of hopes, or it just wasn&#8217;t as good. Still though, I enjoyed it, and it kept my mind off of the world.<\/li><li>Eran Kinsbruner has a new book out &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Front-End-Web-Developers-Guide-Testing\/dp\/1803238313\">A Front-End Web Developer\u2019s Guide to Testing<\/a> &#8211; because as we know, developers are far more suited to writing automated tests than a separate test team.<\/li><li>I hate unproductive meetings. Like really, really hate. So I liked this article on how <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.ieeeusa.org\/articles\/meeting-attendees-play-a-crucial-role-in-meeting-success\/\">attendees play a crucial role in meetings.<\/a><\/li><li>I gave up on the term Work-Life Balance in favor of work life <em>blend<\/em>. This article <a href=\"https:\/\/ashleyjanssen.com\/work-life-balance-is-a-myth-aim-for-this-instead\/\">hits on some good points<\/a> no matter what you call it.<\/li><li><span style=\"color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\">Finally, this <a href=\"https:\/\/conspiracychart.com\/\">interactive conspiracy chart<\/a> is both interesting and amazing.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this week. I&#8217;m taking a bit of time off from work next week, but if all goes well, I&#8217;ll still have a post next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week where I&#8217;m really not happy with the state of the world. Between the war in Ukraine, ridiculous questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson, weirdness in general, I&#8217;ve needed the Internet to distract me more than ever. 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