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- 1854cf64-99a7-4513-b2db-a54c8647523d
2026-05-18
DONE Work journal
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- e2757a5b-ea11-e5f7-b731-4336cb8d21c7
- Note taken on
In my one-on-one with Stephen we talked about the kinda-sorta engineering
reorg that's in the works right now, which is centered around three main
objectives of the company right now.
Basically, brand pod and the conversation funnel are a huge part of it, and it
makes sense that we're working in a kanban-style for now. He said he's working
with Dave Kong to figure out how we'll keep engineering expectations up while
we move fast.
- Note taken on
I should get in the habit of recording journal notes here so that it's easier
to capture non-task specific thoughts during the weekly updates.
The sorts of things I'm looking to update are risks to work and generally how
I'm feeling about work. For example, today I'm just trying to get caught up on
where I left off Friday. I am a little nervous about branching off the feature
branch for Cookbook Discovery Home public endpoints, but I can't really build
out the Parfait endpoint for upserting Collections without that branch.
Meetings
DONE One-on-one with Stephen
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- 4305317d-f03d-2a24-d2c5-a9eba6b56b31
DONE Brand Pod meeting
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- 8436e427-e9c2-7ef6-e17e-6440b8d358f3
Tasks
DONE Submit Q2 goals & update one-on-one doc
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- 7b02605f-03f7-417b-6f07-8237be227030
- Note taken on
Added my three goals for Q2, now I just need to review them with Stephen Johnston
DONE Prep for one-on-one
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- aacdb78d-463a-fd79-90a5-aef7b30b2878
1. Leverage
- Cookbook Discovery Kick-off kicked off the week; followed by catch-ups on the
project throughout the week
- Supporting discovery, added basic search to cookbooks along with a PR adding
"cookbook" to the Collection types available for Discovery Home, as well as
added public endpoints for Discovery Home (non-customer targeted)
2. Alignment
- Sprint 110 release engineer duties (Tuesday) + release cut (Friday)
- Opened PRs for a few parking lot tickets last week to keep Sprint moving
forward
- Wrapped up noslash spike (BE-7208), coordinated with clients and removed
remaining noslash code
- Reviewed & merged anonymous conversation API PR (BE-7680)
- Attended Order Release Post-Mortem
- Finished drafting goals for Q2
3. Risks
- Release engineering consumed a full day Tuesday
- Too much multi-threaded context-switching on Friday
- Feeling push from Brand Pod to work in a more kanban-y way … it's working to
juggle it now, but would love to come up with ways to add a little bit of
formalization to it
4. Outcomes
- Ship the public cookbook collection discovery endpoint
- Check in on Q2 goal setting
DONE Review in flight PRs and address issues
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- 67aa18b6-a09d-c8ac-624f-4f24d4f2fd89
DONE Open a PR for adding a parfait upsert endpoint for discovery home collections BE-7768
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- 76b778e9-4bff-d9ce-5db7-5d3882a8ed6b
DONE Add collection migration script and admin warning for Cookbooks
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- b87481b3-b06d-831b-d7ba-f8f73e95852f
DONE Continue to be on-call! BE-7452
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- 2c07863d-9920-c129-e235-8fd078e2132b