Si Jobling

Week 39 of 2026 brings a side project going live, two PETALS posts out the door, One Phat DJ back on the decks, season 3 of Managing Engineers underway, a habit tracker catch-up, some serious mileage ahead of a 50km walk, and a job I can finally talk about

Bits and pieces this week rather than one big thing - a colour change, a new page, and a proper tidy-up of the habit tracker.

This month's Product On A Page: what if match commentary showed up in your usual podcast app instead of your club's?

On International Vlogging Day, I decided to record a single-take, unedited vlog after spotting the day in my calendar, because it reminded me of the early era of regular, raw video blogging.

This one's late.

Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote just wrapped from Apple Park, and I watched the whole thing live.

LDX3 2026 Day 2 Recap: After 2 days of LDX3 2026, I shift focus to the people side of engineering leadership and how teams are adopting AI.

End of day one at LDX3 Conference 2026, I head back to the hotel early to unwind after spending the day catching up with fellow Rightmovers, former ASOSers, and other friends, noting that networking is one of the best parts of conferences.

Football Cal's World Cup edition - 20 years on from the original, 48 teams, three countries, and Claude doing the heavy lifting on the data.

We're at a pivotal moment in the podcasting industry as Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music are finally implementing alternate (HLS) video support in their native apps.

Fatboy Slim at Alexandra Palace.

Apple Podcasts is bringing HLS video to their platform by partnering with some heavyweight hosts - here are my thoughts on how this could be a pivotal moment for the industry.

I’ve updated my 6 Nations Calendar for 2026, and the biggest change this year is where it lives.

October # Chatted with some students at Binghamton University in New York about the PETALS framework and how it has helped teams with improving psychological safety through real-world case studies (annoyingly, the recording didn’t work very well, only cap…

Following the Metaverse team's push to 5x output from their engineering teams using AI, it got me thinking about how we could actually recognise and reward the humans with 4 day weeks to balance it all out.

Summer 2025 turned out to be a bit of a mix for me; major milestones, unfortunate mishaps and a few big life moments.

This idea hit me in the gym, then got shaped in the pool.

Why are we so obsessed about getting the next thing done when we rarely reflect on what we have already done?

Like many folks in tech, my head’s usually full of noise; podcasts, playlists, Slack messages, meeting notes.

It’s been a full-on few months.

This week I had the chance to attend LDX3 (formerly known as LeadDev London), a buzzing two-day conference packed with bite-sized engineering leadership talks, practical insights, and a refreshing mix of inspiration and pragmatism.

I write this off the back of a new routine I’ve got into this week.

This week, I saw two very different sides of psychological safety play out, and both left a mark.

There’s a lot of talk about team health these days: retros, wellbeing check-ins, pulse surveys, the works.

Today, I was invited to a Protospace Roundtable discussion with fellow tech leaders from around Milton Keynes to discuss how the city can become a tech hub.

Today, I was invited to a Protospace Roundtable discussion with fellow tech leaders from around Milton Keynes to discuss how the city can become a tech hub.

Kicking off a new season of podcast episodes, reviving an old Product On A Page format I used to blog on a regularly basis.

Back in July, I was invited up to Auto Trader's headquarters in Manchester to talk to Pete on their Roadmap Product & Tech podcast about team health and how PETALS has grown over the past few years.

This year, I decided to refresh my house music podcast House Finesse with an updated format, website and sound to recognise all the different flavours we're bringing as a community now.

I was recently asked by David Dowdall to talk to him for their Evo Inspires video series, a platform for leaders in tech to share some personal stories that could inspires others.

Following the series of sports calendar projects, 6 Nations Calendar provides all the kick off times for the annual 6 Nations competition directly on your own mobile or computer.

Before I left ASOS in 2023, I recorded a discussion with Callum and Elizabeth about the experimentation approach in tech for the ASOS Tech Podcast.

Taking inspiration from Trovster's links feed, I've decided to setup my own directory of links found from around the web with my own personal stance on them in a new Bookmarks section.

This is the 9th PETALS Snapshot talking about booking PETALS time, Google Toolkit filter fixes with Mike Street and the first app user story demo. 00:33 Scores 00:48 Homepage refresh 01:20 Cal.com with NextJS fail 04:02 Mike @ Liquid Light 07:38 Google To…

In this video, I go about learning the latest in Design Systems to get some ideas and inspiration for the PETALS app.

This is PETALS Snapshot 8 when Si reflects on his first public talk, new fortnightly dev time with Brian and a session with Laura introducing PETALS to her team.

This is PETALS Snapshot 7 with a new Toolkits page, using PETALS on OKRs, app foundations and Devops Notts meetup.

This is PETALS Snapshot 6 when Si talks about the new Microsoft Form, new Snapshots page, some more fixes and some automation concepts with Slack. 00:45 Scores 01:50 DKIM Fail 02:41 New Snapshots page 03:27 Microsoft Toolkit in progress 05:33 IFTTT to Sla…

This is PETALS Snapshot 5 as we get back into the rhythm of it all. 00:43 Scores are up 01:04 Low serenity 03:40 Cookie banner now in place 04:32 App requirements with Brian 06:09 Wireframing in Freeform iOS 07:02 Mailing list themes 08:51 EOY reflections…

This is PETALS Snapshot 4, the one after a Summer break. 00:55 Scores 01:14 Low productivity 02:13 Privacy content updates 02:37 Stickers 03:33 Email automation with Zapier 04:50 Myles @ Doxy 07:56 More content & cookies 08:58 Summer is over

The one when Si talks about launching the new Google Toolkit to the mailing list and how to bring joy to your work. 00:45 Scores 01:07 Where is your happy place?

Here's a conversation starter for any one-to-one's you're having where individuals seem quite dissatisfied or unhappy in their role.

Looking back over the past 2 weeks since launching the website, working on too much at the same time but fitting in a chat with Brian Suda on how the data could be used in one-to-ones Show Notes # This is the 2nd PETALS Snapshot, looking back since launch…

I can't be the only person in the world who thinks they've finished a job to realise later it's not quite done.

This is the debut #PETALS Snapshot where I'll be using a framework I've created to regularly reflect on side projects - including the #PETALS website itself.

Some people are put on this planet to bring pure happiness.

This is Weekly 2023.15, recorded on Monday 1st May 2023.

https://youtu.be/Jh7aqbw-EHQ Weekly 2023.15 on YouTube https://open.spotify.com/episode/2cj0te64nZSnxV3XLjdIsT?

Documenting personal development plans, timeline for PETALS.team, custom domain emails in iCloud+ and The Other Place by Nathan Hystad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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