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Yesterday I went to the team leads meeting and cleared up a bunch of hiring questions. I spent most of the day writing code to let API queries grab multiple signals at once, and monitoring progress on the data versioning release. I submitted another two job descriptions to send to Recruiting, and wrote up two hiring freeze justifications to resubmit since we neglected to ask for multiple hires for the stats developer position, plus I want to hire K for a part-time version of the external relations PM. I met with Engineering, good progress all around. We did the code push for data versioning on time, and everything looked good until Automation tried to do the direction update — turns out all the Docker tests use the default version of MariaDB (10.x) instead of the version we actually run in production (5.5.x), which only supports a subset of SQL syntax. Annoying, but directions aren’t exactly mission-critical. Then, the meta cache update essentially hung; in staging it took fifteen minutes but in prod we were sitting at an hour+. Late last night it turned out to be a file write error, which seems rill bad considering this is a cloud machine, but I’ll know more when I review B’s update. Things we haven’t done before; things we’re rapidly learning how to do better.

Late dinner, crossword, submitted the farm order, did some more reading about triacs, sleep. Dreamt of rambling B&Bs, iterative murder mystery games, shower curtain opinions, bamboo mats.

Finished my second run through of Wicked As You Wish; delightful. The only thing I can’t recommend about it is that it was only published back in March so there aren’t any sequels yet.