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My Personal Blog


“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

As a developer you have no authority to make decisions

Development, Thoughts,
As a developer you have no authority to make decisions for the service or product that you are assigned to. If you expect to have such authority, then you will most likely be disappointed in your professional career.

The reason why you have no authority to make decision is not because you do not have the expertise required to make decisions, it is because you do not have the financial responsibility.

As an expert you are providing your opinions on how you think a service or product should best be improved from a technical perspective. The person who have the financial responsibility choose if they want to listen to your opinions or not.

I know that some people that work in Agile framework like to claim that the work is done by one team where everyone is equal, but unless everyone in the team are standing in front of the people that assign the budget, then that is not true.

There is always one person who own the financial responsibility for the product or service to generate value. That means that one person always have to balance your salary against new development because if the new development does not generate more value than your cost, then sooner or later you will get fired for lack of funding.

This fact does not mean you are not very important or that many financial owners will listen to your opinions unopposed. Just know that while you get your opinions actionable, you are never the one making the actual decision.

...and that is a good thing.
By 💫 Jimi Wikman in Thoughts ·

There is no such thing as a Jira Developer or Jira Engineer

Atlassian, Thoughts,
Dear recruiters, there is no such thing as a Jira Developer or Jira Engineer. Jira, all of them, are no-code products and there exist no code editing in them. Using those terms just display that the organization you are recruiting to are immature users of Atlassian products.

All the jobs that I have seen where these roles have been used fall into three actual roles:

Add-on Developer - They develop add-ons for Jira and other Atlassian products using Forge. Ask for a Forge Developer.

Programmers using Add-ons - This is very common, and I see a lot of requests for Groovy programming in ScriptRunner for example. Ask for a Groovy programmer with specific add-on experience.

General Developers building integrations with Jira - This is done by connecting the Jira API with another system to exchange data between the systems. Ask for a developer with API and Jira experience.

None of these change any code in Jira.

So please use proper titles for the roles, and you will get the correct profiles to your job listings. Asking for developers to a no-code product, or even go as far as to throw the Engineer suffix that does not mean anything does not help you get the right people for the job.
By 💫 Jimi Wikman in Thoughts ·

Path of Exile 2 early access

Gaming,
While I am still playing Diablo 4, Diablo 3 and The First Descendant, I plan to join the Path of Exile 2 early access as soon as I get back from Dublin. While I have a love-hate relation with Path of Exile, I will give Path of Exile a fair chance and see how I like it. One of the main reasons is that a friend of mine is also thinking to try it, and it would be fun to play together!
I am one of those players that don’t need to purchase early access as I have spent enough money on the game in the past, so I can just download the game and get into it once I get home. This should keep me occupied for a while, which is good since I feel a bit unfocused right now and could use something to focus on for a while.
Path of Exile 2 looks like it can be great fun, even if it still a massive game that require a ton of time to learn all the mechanics. It is “simpler” than Path of Exile in that there are many things that have been removed or reworked, like skill gems. The skill tree is still massive, but you can now respec much easier, which makes experimentation much easier.
So I guess we’ll see how I will like this new Path of Exile because my current feeling about the original Path of Exile game is that it is a bit repetitive, and I am no fan of having to spend days trying to research a build, or download additional programs to plan a build before I even get started. I hope that Path of Exile 2 and the new systems for respec and so on will feel better in that regard.
We’ll see what happens once I start playing, but I have a good feeling about it!
By 💫 Jimi Wikman in Hobbies ·

Time to measure everything regarding health

Health, Personal,
Last night I decided to connect all the devices I have for measuring health to my health app. It is a bit overdue, but I just got the lancets for measuring my blood sugar this week and my wife has been a bit protective regarding her blood pressure cuffs. I also connected our Scales again to get weight measurements, since I seem to have gained a lot of weight recently when switching medication.
Connecting my blood sugar test unit directly to my mobile phone was super ease and now that I have lancets I will start doing multiple readings a day, just to get some data going. Since I am new to Diabetes this will be interesting to do over a longer period of time, especially since the different brands of Metformin that I use seem to have different effects. I aim to try to measure blood sugar 3 times a day now, in the morning, after lunch and before bedtime.
Connecting the scale was also not very difficult, but I think it is time to get a new one as we have had this one for almost a decade now. It does not seem to connect to the profiles for some reason, but that is ok for now. I will measure weight every morning for consistency and while the actual weight is less important, it is a good indicator of overall health.
Lastly I will use a blood pressure cuff to measure blood pressure since it is a bit high. Fortunately it is dropping from the measurements I have done so far, so it is going in the right direction so far at least, even if it is a bit high still. Once I get back to the gym I should see better results and I have also reduced salt quite a bit recently.
It will be interesting to gather all of these metrics for a while and see what activities affect what metric over time.
Today’s values are:
Blood Pressure: 131/87
Weight: 116,5
Blood sugar: 9.7
Heart rate: 73
Sleep: 6h 53m
Sleep Quality: 72
Overall feeling: Sluggish and my neck is still blocked.
By 💫 Jimi Wikman in Health ·

Good health, but with potential to improve

Health, Personal,
Yesterday I went on a checkup for my diabetes to see how it has improved since I got the diagnosis back in May. I also received the result of my testing for prostate cancer that everyone in Stockholm can test for once they turn 50. I tested for prostate cancer and took a long time sugar test on Wednesday, which was superfast and done by one of the most skilled nurses I have ever met.
When I was diagnosed with diabetes I had 108 in long time sugar and 15.2 in glucose, which is pretty high. The test done this week show a long time sugar value of 43 and a glucose of 8.3. This means that my long time sugar are in line with what I should have (31-46), but my sugar was a bit high as I had just had breakfast. This should improve further as I get back to exercising again and as my long term stress from work subsides and is purged from my body.
My blood pressure is high though, and I have a follow-up on that in a few weeks when I will also set a plan for exercise with the diabetes nurse. With 140/100 in blood pressure I am quite high and when I was in the emergency room I had 135/93, so I need to address that. Exercise is of course one easy way to address this, but I also will stop adding salt to my food, which I am doing way too much. I am also going to stop eating licorice, which I love a bit too much.
Overall though I am in a fairly good place, but I need to get out of the chair a bit more. So I am getting back to the gym, and I am going to start swimming to see how that feels. As always I will continue with my walks, but I will increase the frequency a bit. I will make another update about that in a later blog post.

As for my test for prostate cancer, which I have been a little apprehensive about as we have it in the family, that came back normal. So all is well there, at least for now.
All in all, I am not doing to bad, but it is time to get a little bit busy again!
By 💫 Jimi Wikman in Health ·

Yesterday I got a new phone and it was amazing and painful

Thoughts,
As I wrote in my previous blog post, I am separating work from my personal life, and yesterday I received my new personal iPhone. It is a nice iPhone 16 plus that looks and feels great and as always when dealing with Apple making the move is very easy. When it comes to some of the apps I am using though… well, let us just say it is a bit annoying to deal with technology sometimes.

Syncing the data
Syncing the data took a while, but everything worked just fine. For some reason the Journal was not syncing and after checking it turned out that the Journal have sync turned off by default. It is a bit weird, but easy to fix as soon as you know it. Everything else worked just fine, as it always do when you move from one mobile phone to another in the Apple ecosystem.

Microsoft however…
My first frustration came when setting up my email in Outlook. I am so used with having my email and calendar in Outlook using my work email, so it never occurred to me that there should be any issues using my personal email this way. Unfortunately though it seems that my email has somehow become messed up as I have had it connected to a O365 business license before. Anytime I tried to connect to it, it breaks because it is now connected to both a business account and my personal account.
To add insult to injury I can now only connect my email using IMAP. While I get my email just fine, I now can’t sync my calendar and I get ads, even though I am paying for both my personal and business licenses. I spent a fair amount of time on this yesterday to try to find a solution, but I eventually gave up. Once my business license ends next year this should work itself out and until then I will use the Family Wall calendar that we use in the family and just sync it to my desktop Outlook.
My second frustration, or rather surprise, came when I started working with Google Authenticator. It seems that for some reason you can not sync the accounts automatically, but you need to do a backup and for some reason this did not work for me. I assume it is a combination of having the Google Authentication connected to my work account on the old phone and my account being a bit messed out due to the license issues.
As a result I had to manually re-add all the accounts. This was not very difficult, but time-consuming, which is ok as I could clean some things up at the same time.

Final steps
Tomorrow I get my phone number moved over to the new phone and with that the move should be complete. I will buy some protection for the phone, but other than that things should be done in terms of moving everything privately to the new phone. I am still playing around with the setup of apps, but overall things feel very good right now, and I am very much enjoying this separation.
It feels good to have a phone that is just mine.

By 💫 Jimi Wikman in Thoughts ·

Separating Work from Personal life more strictly moving forward

Health, Thoughts, Work,
After more than a decade only having my company phone and company laptop I have decided it is time to make a change. The last few years have been very stressful and not having the clear boundaries between work and private life have caused some issues. I also feel it is time I take ownership of what is and is not mine and to feel secure that I am at the mercy of my company when it comes to my data.
My first step was to buy a new laptop. I already have a stationary computer, but I enjoy watching movies, write and do some coding on a laptop. As I don't need anything really powerful I bought a Samsung Galaxy Book4 i7-1355U/16/512/IPS 15.6". It should be ready to pickup later today, or tomorrow.
Tomorrow I will also go get myself a new phone. It will be another iPhone, and I am not really picky if it will be a iPhone 15 or iPhone 16. I'll just take what is in store since they are fairly similar in terms of what I need.
I feel that this separation will allow me to better manage my time and make a clear separation between what is mine and what belongs to the company. I can now put away the work at the end of the work day and pick it back up again at the beginning of the workday. I think this is extra important when we work in hybrid or remote settings as there is no longer that sense of walking out the office door to help with the distinction between work and private life.
I am looking forward to this, and I can't wait to get my new "toys" so I can start setting them up just the way I want them to be!
By 💫 Jimi Wikman in Thoughts ·

An open letter to my amazing Sinch colleagues

Personal, Thoughts, Work,
As I am taking my farewell of Sinch after two years of working with all of you, I do so with mixed feelings. On one hand I am excited to start new adventures next year, but on the other hand I will miss working with all you amazing people at Sinch.
Over the past two years we have accomplished amazing things together. Despite it being very hard for you sometimes to adjust to the more structured and limited ways of a controlled platform, you have accepted the change with respect and enthusiasm.
In a typical Sinch way you have taken the lemons and turned them into lemonade, and you have done so with positive energy and curiosity. For every obstacle you have come up with a dozen solutions and when in doubt you have fearlessly asked questions. It has been a true honor working with such amazing people as you are.
Even in a time of endless changes you have surfed the waves and anytime anyone of us have fallen, we have helped each other up to try again. We have worked together across timezones, cultures, religions and experiences to build a better Atlassian Experience, and I am in awe over your dedication towards this end. Not just for yourself, but for everyone at Sinch.
While I will no longer be there to guide you towards the next destination, I am confident that the foundation we have set together will get you there and that the future will be glorious for all of you.
While I technically will not leave Sinch for a few months yet, I wish you all the best and I can't wait to see where your Atlassian Journey takes you next or what wonders you will create using the Atlassian platform.
I will miss you and I wish you all the best.
By 💫 Jimi Wikman in Thoughts ·

Getting serious about images

Design, Thoughts,
As a designer, graphics always has meant a lot to me and I always love to collect amazing art, but I am not very good at organizing my images. Yesterday I decided to increase my library with some new graphics from Freepik.com, which is a service I love to use. I got an annual license, which will give me the ability to download around 36,000 images over the course of a year, which feels really good.
In order to be able to handle all of those images, I really needed to get things organized. So I jumped into Miro and did some mind mapping to see what kind of structure I should start with. I then reorganized my folders accordingly, and I am now reinstalling Dropbox and work on setting up Eagle again. If you have not tried Eagle, then it is by far the best product I have ever used, but it has been acting up a bit, so I have downloaded 4.0 to see if that works better.
With the new folder structure, I feel a bit more organized, and the next step is to make sure the images are also useable since that when you download them, they are unoptimized. So I have set up a TinyPNG account to reduce the size, and then I am using Image Resizer to quickly resize the dimensions of the images. So each folder now also have two subfolders named Optimized and WebP, where I add the images I resize and optimize.
This little exercise will keep me busy for a while because I have a ton of graphics! Fortunately, this is also something that makes me extremely happy because I absolutely love to work with and look at beautiful graphics. Right now I am waiting for the 120,000+ files to resync from Dropbox and then for Eagle to pick them up so I can start working with them.
It is a pretty awesome day.
 
By 💫 Jimi Wikman in Thoughts ·

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