There’s a portrait painted on the things

[infryq]

Yesterday I met with Indicators and we discussed the release candidate and the imminent availability of the private API. I went to the big group meeting and presented the demo, making a last-minute change to the signals selections, by request, that unfortunately broke an assumption being made by the viz team and fucked up the interface. That got fixed in the afternoon and posted to #general, but I guess nobody looked or nobody noticed stuff was still wrong until after 9pm, by which time I was asleep. We’ll talk about that in the retro on Friday. Spent the rest of my afternoon shepherding the changes to the text labels, writing the API changelog, fixing some database mishaps, and making progress on the hackathon proposal. I had viz generate the tagged release, posted the staged version for final feedback, then went to dinner. Nothing but good words by 8:30, so I shipped it off to marketing. Alas. Anyway this is why we have an extra day built into the release schedule, for exactly this kind of fire alarm.

Crossword, then it was already late so I just went to bed. Dreamt of a variety of logistical problem scenarios, go figure.

I’ve been listening to podcasts in between things to encourage my brain to take actual breaks, and really enjoying season two of Articles of Interest by 99pi, all about the history and social context of luxury fashion items.