The Standup

The Standup

By Keith Thompson & Jamie WrightBusinessTechnologyMarketing
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The Standup episodes

  • S2E11 - Chuck a Tarball
    Jamie - Completed
    • Chronic
      • Started working on GraphQL implementation around the current user
      • Decided that we will require a sign up/registration on launch
      • Talk
        • I completed my talk around Chronic which is called “How to Build an WebSocket API in Elixir” and gave it in Grand Rapids, Michigan
        • I am working on a new bot framework called Juvet for another talk I am giving on this new bot framework
          • Jamie - Next Sprint
          • Chronic
            • Finish replacing current REST API with GraphQL
            • Implement workflows
            • Talk
              • Giving the How to Build an WebSocket API in Elixir at KCDC
              • Give the Introducing Juvet talk at MiddevCon
                • Keith - Completed
                • Chronic
                  • Bailed on trying to use Habitat for deployment. Not ideal for stateful applications with hot code reloading.
                  • Configured CircleCI for CI and soon continuous deployment
                  • Went down the rabbit hole that is deploying OTP applications
                  • Continued codifying our infrastructure since I didn’t do that when I first deployed our staging server.
                    • Keith - Next Sprint
                    • Chronic
                      • Finish configuration management, deploying OTP releases, and continuous deployment.
                      • Actually work on the application.
                      • Move into new house
                        • 33 min
                      • S2E10 - Build Your Own Box Fort
                        Jamie - Completed
                        • Chronic
                          • Start/Pause/Resume implemented on web side
                          • Alert system implemented using redux
                          • Tatsu
                            • Flipper Cloud Implemented
                            • Basement office
                              • Drywall and framing is done
                                • Jamie - Next Sprint
                                • Chronic
                                  • Clean up web side (add tests)
                                  • Share base components/actions/reducers
                                  • Implement GraphQL
                                  • Tatsu
                                    • Add more users to beta
                                    • Talk
                                      • Build beginnings of Juvet
                                      • Basement
                                        • Paint and move in!
                                          • Keith - Completed
                                          • Chronic
                                            • Finalized Workflow backend. Not worked into API just yet.
                                            • ChefConf
                                              • Met a ton of people. The Chef community is awesome.
                                                • Keith - Next Sprint
                                                • Chronic
                                                  • Integrate Workflow into API.
                                                  • Potentially use Habitat to set up continuous deployment for Chronic.
                                                    • 31 min
                                                  • S2E9 - A Really Young Snowbird
                                                    Keith - Completed
                                                    • Only streamed once. Decided that it’s not valuable enough to do right now.
                                                    • Completed the initial implementation of a Workflow. Need to add tests around templates and work it into the web-socket API still.
                                                      • Keith - Next Sprint
                                                      • Going to be at ChefConf in Chicago for a week.
                                                      • Finalize Workflow PR
                                                        • Jamie - Completed
                                                        • Tatsu
                                                          • UI for asynchronous standups completed
                                                          • Flipper Cloud almost implemented
                                                          • Chronic
                                                            • Started start/stop of web timer
                                                            • Getting back up to speed sucks
                                                            • Finished Deep Work
                                                            • Went to Stir Trek
                                                              • Jamie - Next Sprint
                                                              • Tatsu
                                                                • Add more people to asynchronous standup beta
                                                                • Small bugs/features
                                                                • Chronic
                                                                  • Finish start/stop timer on web
                                                                    • Links
                                                                    • Bear Focus Timer
                                                                      • 32 min
                                                                    • S2E8 - Straight Geocities for a Moment
                                                                      Jamie - Last Sprint
                                                                      • Basement finally getting work done
                                                                      • Chronic
                                                                        • Paired on workflow architecture and implementation
                                                                        • Tatsu
                                                                          • UI for asynchronous standups (complete not deployed)
                                                                          • Working on some edge cases
                                                                          • New Company
                                                                            • Logo created
                                                                            • Talk
                                                                              • Finished API
                                                                              • Reading Deep Work
                                                                                • Jamie - Next Sprint
                                                                                • Tatsu
                                                                                  • UI for asynchronous standups deployed and additional people using it
                                                                                  • Flipper changed to use Flipper Cloud
                                                                                  • Talk
                                                                                    • Website created
                                                                                    • Schedule local workshop
                                                                                    • Branding / mobile app update
                                                                                    • Chronic
                                                                                      • Start/stop timer on the web
                                                                                        • Keith - Last Sprint
                                                                                        • Didn’t stream as much as I had planned, been learning more elixir off-air
                                                                                        • Sat down with Jamie and hashed out our architecture plans for a “Workflow”
                                                                                        • Learning more and more Chef
                                                                                          • Keith - Next Sprint
                                                                                          • Finish initial Workflow implementation
                                                                                          • Stream at least twice a week for each week between recordings
                                                                                            • NOTES
                                                                                            • Books
                                                                                              • Deep Work
                                                                                              • Mindset
                                                                                              • How to Win Friends and Influence People
                                                                                              • Drive
                                                                                              • Keith's Elixir API Wrapper
                                                                                                • 32 min
                                                                                              • S2E7 - First Chat of 2018

                                                                                                Keith - Last 4 or 5 Weeks

                                                                                                • Lots of work stuff
                                                                                                • Started working on the "Workflow" portion of Chronic doing a little a day by live streaming (on Twitch). Going a little slow because he's a little rusty with Elixir.
                                                                                                • S2E6 became the first official "lost episode".

                                                                                                  • Keith - Next 2 Weeks

                                                                                                  • Get re-acquainted with Elixir to be productive again when working on Chronic.
                                                                                                  • Get the first iteration of Chronic workflows into review.
                                                                                                  • Pivot CoderJourney videos and hopefully release the first new "What is X and How Does It Work?" video.

                                                                                                    • Jamie - Last 4 or 5 Weeks

                                                                                                    • Launched beta of asynchronous standups for Tatsu
                                                                                                    • New Company
                                                                                                      • ** Name Agreed On
                                                                                                      ** LLC Created
                                                                                                      ** Logo will be presented this coming week
                                                                                                    • Workshop
                                                                                                      • ** No one signed up :(
                                                                                                      ** What can be done to get people to sign up?
                                                                                                      ** Will be conducting this workshop in Nashville
                                                                                                    • Worked from iPad while his computer was being repaired
                                                                                                      • ** Used Blink
                                                                                                    • Love for Dropbox Paper is growing.

                                                                                                      • Jamie - Next 2 Weeks

                                                                                                      • Finish UI for asynchronous standups in Tatsu
                                                                                                      • Finish Gotcha API
                                                                                                      • Launch New Company
                                                                                                      • Start/Stop time for Chronic web UI.
                                                                                                        • 30 min
                                                                                                      • S2E5 - Maybe Chef Doesn't Suck

                                                                                                        Keith - Past

                                                                                                        • Absorbed working on Python 3 course (has since launched)
                                                                                                        • Took time off for family
                                                                                                        • Chronic
                                                                                                        • Deployed a chef server
                                                                                                        • Started working on cookbooks to manage elixir servers

                                                                                                          • Keith - Future

                                                                                                          • Finish configuration management of Elixir servers.
                                                                                                          • Start getting back to the mobile application.
                                                                                                          • Workflow
                                                                                                          • Review styled-component PR

                                                                                                            • Jamie

                                                                                                            • Landed huge new client project
                                                                                                            • Working on Workshop for IndyCode
                                                                                                            • Office renovations
                                                                                                            • Chronic
                                                                                                              • Finished initial layout for Chronic-web using styled-components
                                                                                                              • Started researching and learning Alexa Skill stuff
                                                                                                              • Taking Treehouse course
                                                                                                                • 22 min
                                                                                                              • S2E4 - Like a Bear

                                                                                                                Keith

                                                                                                                • Created a staging server for Chronic and figured out hot-code deploys
                                                                                                                • Started working on a "Resources" page for CoderJourney
                                                                                                                • Accepted the diminished productivity that comes with Winter and has started having "winter hours" allowing for more sleep
                                                                                                                • Now does yoga.

                                                                                                                  • Jamie

                                                                                                                  • Experienced his first migraine
                                                                                                                  • Got accepted to give a workshop at Indy.Code()
                                                                                                                  • Started working with Styled Components in React (not understanding the hype)
                                                                                                                  • Lots of work on new, secret project
                                                                                                                    • 25 min
                                                                                                                  • S2E3 - The Grinch is a Hero

                                                                                                                    Keith

                                                                                                                    • Finished Chronic mobile-app initial PR
                                                                                                                    • Spent a lot of time working on his Linux Academy Python course

                                                                                                                      • Jamie

                                                                                                                      • Created some designs for Chronic web and mobile
                                                                                                                      • Got the Tatsu bot interactions for async standup ready for beta testing
                                                                                                                      • Started digging into React for the Chronic web app

                                                                                                                        • Shoutout to Ryan Lanciaux for providing React guidance.

                                                                                                                        29 min
                                                                                                                      • S2E2 - WebSockets are Confusing

                                                                                                                        Keith (Non-Chronic)

                                                                                                                        • Struggles with Python packaging
                                                                                                                        • Bought a lot of PragProg books
                                                                                                                        • Still haven't released a video announcing the move to Linux Academy

                                                                                                                          • Keith (Chronic)

                                                                                                                          • More progress on the mobile app using React-Native
                                                                                                                          • Pulled in Phoenix.js to make working with channels easier
                                                                                                                          • Still enjoying Redux

                                                                                                                            • Jamie (Chronic)

                                                                                                                            • Finished Timer Events and Websock API
                                                                                                                            • Planning out next steps and product roadmap
                                                                                                                              • 25 min
                                                                                                                            • S2E1 - The Rise of Chronic

                                                                                                                              Keith:

                                                                                                                              • Never shipped Submissions or Lectern (and lectern is dead)
                                                                                                                              • CoderJourney has changed because he is now a Course Author for Linux Academy
                                                                                                                              • Working on Chronic
                                                                                                                              • Digging into more and more ops related topics
                                                                                                                              • Back to working with Python (for his first course)

                                                                                                                                • Jamie:

                                                                                                                                • Working on Chronic with Keith.
                                                                                                                                • Tatsu direct message standups are finished and ready to go into beta.
                                                                                                                                • Callback is still a work in progress (switching back to React)
                                                                                                                                • Breaktime is a new application
                                                                                                                                • Working a lot with Elixir / Phoenix
                                                                                                                                  • 31 min

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