Welcome

My name is Sam Pearson and this is my personal website. I’ve currently work at mySociety as Site Reliability Engineer.

Below are the most recent posts, older things can be found in the blog, there’s a vague taxonomy of posts on the tags page and a bit more about me and this site at the about page.

Recent Posts

  • Weeknotes, March 17th 2024

    This week was a bit of a slog. I came down with a nasty head cold which wasn’t bad enough to warrant time off in bed but had an impact on my ability to concentrate and my mood. Luckily it began to clear by Friday.

  • Weeknotes, March 10th 2024

    It’s the 10th of March and this is the tenth weeknote of the year. I’m not completely happy with the format, but it’s better than nothing and it’s starting to become a bit more of a habit now which is largely the point.

  • Weeknotes, March 3rd 2024

    A constructive week at work. Doing a thorough review of goals and priorities together with a trawl through the open issues across a number of repositories (we use GitHub issues to organised pretty much all our work) then reorganising the Project Board has been worthwhile. I did wonder for a bit whether this was time well spent, but I think it was and it’s already making my life easier and more focussed.

  • Weeknotes, February 25th 2024

    Short working week for me this week as I took Thursday and Friday off. Reasonably productive three days, including an early start on Wednesday to do some planned maintenance on some of our back-end systems.

  • Weeknotes, February 18th 2024

    The work week started with some rather aggravating problems that ended up dominating Monday but fortunately were all resolved before the end of the day. The rest of the week felt reasonably productive putting a few ideas into practice and catching up after a slightly rocky start to January.