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Daypage Journal
Wednesday, 5/8/2019
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| Tuesday, 5/7/2019 | 3:47 | |
| \_ Tasks [5/12] | | 3:47 |
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Tasks [8/10]
DONE Set tasks for the day
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DONE Gymnastics with the boys
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DONE Ellsworth chores
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DONE Write in daily journal
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DONE Prep for Sourceress interview
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A little about myself
+ Been working full-time as a REMOTE developer for 8+ years
+ Started out in newspapers, actively contributing to open source
+ Used django because it started as a newsroom tool, quick CMS, custom content
types, fast turn around building templates
+ Spent 4+ years supporting a custom CMS and building websites and plugins with django-CMS
+ Built a number of custom donation forms for non-profits that included some
crazy payment processors (PayPal Pro ... sigh)
+ More than anything, I like challenging myself to learn new things
+ Built out a React front-end for a data import tool at my last job, had
responsibliity to build backend and frontend and that was fun
+ Not totally sold on the React model, a little heavy for most things, like
Preact and projects like that that use the same data model but with fewer
toolchain requirements
+ Started out with a fully distributed company, spent the last 2.5 years with
remote-friendly startups
+ Takes time to build culture, not everyone is built for it, and not every
company understands what the tradeoffs are
+ Written communication has to be superb in remote engineering teams
+ I find email is good for whole team communication, Zulip/Slack better for
one-on-one or small teams
+ Salary expectations around 120k, but I'm flexible at this point
+ Originally from Chicago, but spent last deacde in Maine
+ Four kids, ages 1 to 8 on a small farm by the ocean
+ We raise goats, sheep, chickens, ducks and turkeys
Questions
+ Do folks collaborate often on issues, or are tickets inidvidual projects?
(pair programming ever?)
+ How does an issue become a ticket, and who controls when work starts?
+ Repo style and release schedule?
+ How are projects/sprints evaluated and iterated? Actionable retros?
DONE Pickup van in Blue Hill
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DONE Interview with Sourceress
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DONE Second interview with ReCharge engineers
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Journal
Had a good time going up to Ellsworth and Blue Hill with Emma this morning.
Silas and Asa seemed to have a good time. Nabby had a little belly time at the
gym, but didn't seem to have any interest in getting her knees under herself.