A sunny day in Leeds

#Main Highlights

#Online

#Career / Learning

  • 🎉 I officially joined Gitpod as a Senior Community Engineer! This has been something that I’ve kept quiet about for a few months, so it was great to finally talk openly about it and to onboard officially as a Gitpodder. So far, I’m enjoying every minute of it, learning lots and can’t wait to see how Gitpod grows over time.
  • 💻 I also set up my PolyWork profile!

#Personal

  • ☀️ The UK finally had summer weather this month which helped keep my spirits high at least. Although there were geniunely times where I thought that I was going to melt from the heat!
  • 💇🏻‍♀️ I cut my hair wrong, cried about it then got the hairdressers to fix it 😂 Not my finest hour!
  • 🎂 Celebrated my younger brother, Clark’s birthday (they grow up so fast)
  • ⚽️ I briefly really got into football for the EUROs, it did not come home
  • 🌻 I tried growing sunflowers this year, and I managed to get quite far in the growth process. Unfortunately, the direct sun looks like it has burned my sunflowers. 🥲 I’m still holding out for a recovery, but we’ll see!
  • 💬 I’ve continued on with my therapy which I have found to be very beneficial 😊
  • 💪🏼 I switched things up a bit this month and for the first two weeks of July, I solely did Apple Fitness+ workouts. It was nice following an instructor through a workout for a change!
  • 🏃🏻‍♀️ My weekly runs continue… It’s weird writing that because I never thought I’d keep this habit up, but here we are!
  • 👁 I had my first LASIK consultation – no more glasses journey continues…

#Things that made me happy

Original tweet

I’ve been quite open about my experiences at work since starting my first ever tech job. This is no exception! When I say that Gitpod has given me a wonderful onboarding experience and probably the best that I’ve ever had in my career so far, I’m not joking. Gitpod already has made me feel more at home in a week than I’ve felt in my years or months elsewhere. I guess that’s when you know you’re in the right place!

Thank you to my fellow Gitpodders for making this easily the best decision I’ve ever made. Also, Geoff for the :pawlean: emoji that is all over our Slack now. 😂

Original tweet

#July in Photos

What July looked like for me 🙏🏼

#July Favourites

  • 🍚 Lions Prep and Hello Fresh has been a favourite delivery food service for us recently!
  • 📺 Never Have I Ever Season 2, Loki
  • 🎬 Black Widow, ‘Hello, Love, Goodbye‘ 🇵🇭
  • 📚 One Minute Manager
  • 🧊 WooZoo by Ohyama fan is the best fan out there. Hands down. 😂 Saved me so many times on hot days this month!
  • 🏋🏻‍♀️ I got two new sports bras (do you remember the “no new sports stuff” rule in January? No? Me neither…) They’re both from Nike because I loved seeing them on Apple Fitness Plus trainers 😂 I could talk about sports bras for days, but I will leave it at: I forgot how reliable, strong and high quality sports bras are from Nike!

#Quote of the Month

You can always count on M Haig

#Next month, my intentions are to…

  • 🌿 Take better care of myself by setting better work/life boundaries. Some of you may know that I’m a workaholic (I hate saying it, but it’s true 😬) and I find it difficult to switch off especially when I’m really into what I’m doing and love what I do. I’m very much there right now at work, so I’m going to make sure that I proritise my health!
  • 🍋 Enjoy as much of the summer left as possible – go outside more! More offline adventures! As usual, the summer months just fly past and then we’re back to my least favourite time of year: the darker months.