Wednesday, May 8

 Woke up at 6:20 without alarm. I couldn’t sleep more. Coffee, egg salad sandwich, Omega-3. Easy morning. No L-Carnitine; no workout today, so no need for L-Carnitine. Then scribbled something in the notebook, read a few pages, and I don’t know what else I had done, but it was 8:30 already.

The train around 8:40 was quite crowded. I didn’t even sit after the 96th. Then around 72nd I crashed on the chair and read the Polish novel. A little delay, and I was late for the standup at 9:30. I lost track of time: just kept reading, and then realized I was late.

The standup was lively – everyone discussing something, engaging, not like it was on Monday. The news was that the diversity team will be reviewing our ban on the number of countries for SMS login. We’ll see what they say. Of course, it rings a bell when we say we just banned a bunch of African and East Asian countries.

Then Will was asking me to make sure I came to the standups. Is it my second or third time that I’m late? He offered to move the standup later or earlier (so I could call from home before going to the office). I said I just needed to adjust to my commute, and that I didn’t expect a delay today, but I should plan for it. So, yeah, I should plan to come maybe 20 mins before the standup. 

Then pretty much all day I was planning my email receipts project. It’s getting surprisingly heavier than I expected. We have four different databases across AWS and Google Cloud, and a React Native app that I barely understand how it’s working. So, there will be some learning curve. I suspect I should learn React Native. I asked Will – he said it’s up to me if I wanna learn it. I’m not very passionate about it; but I think it’s good to understand what’s going on there on the client.

I asked Abhi about his emacs setup: I was surprised – for years I haven’t seen people that use vim or emacs so heavily like it was an IDE. Turns out he’s doing pretty much everything in emacs. Jumping between references and all that, of course, but also notes management that can link across pieces of code (called org-mode), git management including code reviews (called Magit). Even ChatGPT is just another emacs buffer there. And CoPilot is there to help too, with its config in Lisp. So cool!

Ah, and I learned that some people get pissed if I wash my mug in the kitchen sink and don’t wipe the splashes with a paper towel. Why would I do that? Should we not save the trees after all? I will think about it.

Back home by 7. Sleepy as if it was Thursday, but it’s only Wednesday. Finished "Perfect Days" in the evening. We managed to split this movie into three parts. Beautiful cinematography, but I didn't understand what the authors tried to say. Mistake splitting this beautiful movie into three parts. Bed by 11.