A few months ago, the elements on our stove started intermittently failing. My husband, being knowledgeable in electronics and generally very good at fixing things, decided to open it up and see if he could figure out what was going wrong.

A group of people watching a video together while sitting on a Zoom call. Does this sound like a terrible idea? A few months ago, I would have said yes.

I recently took a course through Athabasca University called Leading for Legacy. One of the activities I completed as part of the course was to write the speech that I'd like to hear one of my colleagues give at my retirement party.

I think we can all agree that 2020 had more than its fair share of challenges and disappointments. So I thought I'd share one thing I did at work this year that I found to be really satisfying and rewarding. I created an internal resume for my time at D2L so far.

I had the interesting experience this week of getting back in touch with someone I hadn't talked to in 23 years.

I finally spent some time doing a "career exploration" exercise that had been on my to-do list forever.

Welcome to version 2.0 of tinafletcher.ca! Wow, it's been a while. So many things have happened...

This is a puzzle that I worked on for over a year at my office.

A thing I'm trying to get better at is accepting praise for doing something that felt easy to me.

I haven't done a lot of coding since finishing my university computer science program about 11 years ago, as I've focused primarily on testing, quality strategy, and people leadership in my career so far. In the past year or so, though, I've taken on two coding projects - one was building data analysis tools for a Code Stewardship initiative I worked on, and the other was building a basic web site from scratch and hosting it in AWS.

Last year, I conducted a 12 month experiment related to implementing Code Stewardship at my organization. It went ok; I think I made some progress, and I think I learned some useful things.

One night last week, I was leaving work. It was dark and rainy, and because the temperature was hovering around zero, it was also icy. I was waiting to cross the street to get to my parking lot.