Category: Journal

Yesterday I submitted a second draft of a distributed topic publisher that uses redis as its backend to throttle messages to one per specified time. So that was cool. Hopefully it survives code review. Today I’m going to have a very meeting-heavy day. I’ll be kicking off a “Talking Shop Series” talk. If people like…

Am I cramming for a public speaking presentation tomorrow? Yes. Yes I am.

Decided not to move my desk just yet. Liza will be doing work-related travel, so there’s no point. We will finish painting this room… eventually. I don’t really have much to say today. More or the same.

Plans for today include: – Update the form validation on the listing creation form on Fiber Club– Prepare slides and presentation materials for Tuesday’s work meeting– Move my desk so that we can finish painting my office.– Send a recommendation for a coworker on LinkedIn and follow up with some networking tasks.– Finish watching the…

OooOooOooo it’s Friday 13th. So sp00ky. much scary. Very frightening.

I’m going to present a technical diagram for an image fetching pipeline to my coworkers today. I’m looking forward to it, actually. And I’m going to continue working on an abstraction layer for a delayed messaging queue. It’s almost done. Just need to make the darn tests pass for Pulsar topics. The way we have…

Busy day. Packed morning full of meetings, then flying to Vegas for a friend’s wedding.

Yesterday I shadowed released months of work on the Fiber Club portal. It’s intentionally hidden and some features are disabled because a) there’s a few things we’re unhappy about UX-wise and want to fix, and b) at this point we only want a select few people to access the site and it’s cheaper and easier…

Damn, it’s hot today. The kitchen sink is fixed. We had to replace the entire faucet. Sigh… oh well.

I tried to fix the water supply line under my kitchen sink, but I think I need a special tool, or perhaps I need to dismantle the entire faucet. I might as well call a plumber at this point if I need to buy a special tool. I think I’ll install a water filtration system…