post: journal entry for week starting 8th January 2024

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+---
+title: Breaking ground on the new year
+date: 2024-01-08
+categories:
+  - practicalli
+---
+
+**Thoughts for the week**
+
+Rushing work is the slowest way to make progress.
+
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+
+
+## Building teams
+
+It can be challenging joining a very busy team. Blalancing the need to minimise disruption of the existing teams work with taking the teams time to enable new people to have enough knowledge to start contributing.
+
+Identifying specific knowledge transfer topics and timeboxed meetings are an effective approach, especially when coupled with good documentation and architecture diagrams.
+
+
+## Neovide on MacOSX
+
+Finally found a working approach to running Neovide GUI for Neovim with the AstroNvim configuration.  The `launchctl` command can set an environment variable that will be used with GUI apps launched from the MacOSX spotlight (or similar desktop launchers).
+
+```shell
+launchctl setenv NVIM_APPNAME astronvim
+```
+
+Adding a neovide alias that sets `NVIM_APPNAME` in the `.profile` or `.zprofile` file did not seem to make a difference, even after a reboot of MacOSX.
+
+
+## GitHub statistics
+
+[GitHub Wrapped](https://www.githubwrapped.io/) is an online app that generates visualisation from contributions for a specific GitHub account. 
+
+![GitHub Wrapped practicalli-johnny 2023 statistics visualisation](https://github.com/practicalli/graphic-design/blob/live/github/github-wrapped-2023-practicalli-johnny.png?raw=true){loading=lazy}
+
+
+### GitHub Trends
+
+GitHub Wrapped uses GitHub Trends which can be used to create a deep dive into the GitHub API to surface metrics about code contributions. 
+
+GitHub Trends computes metrics based on your individual commits, rather than look at contributions to repositories. 
+
+Generate insights on lines written by language, repository, and time. Easily embed dynamic images into your GitHub profile to share your statistics with the world. 
+
+[Create an account with GitHub Trends](https://api.githubtrends.io/auth/signup/public) Then, paste this string into your Markdown content, substituting your username.
+
+!!! EXAMPLE "Markdown Code for GitHub trends language view"
+    ```markdown
+    [![GitHub Trends SVG](https://api.githubtrends.io/user/svg/github-username/langs)](https://githubtrends.io)
+    ```
+
+Communicate directly with [Use the GitHub Trends API](https://github.com/avgupta456/github-trends/blob/main/docs/API.md) to create customize cards.