May 6, 2024

#171 - Talk Preparation to Journey Reflection

Preparing for an upcoming keynote, reflecting on the journey so far, and coding in between!

View this email in your browser #171 | 6 May 2024 Talk Preparation to Journey Reflection I'm currently en route to Detroit to deliver the opening keynote for RailsConf! My talk is titled... It's an updated edition of a talk I gave at The Rails SaaS Conference in October 2022. I'm excited to give this new-and-improved version — thank you so much Saron, Andy, and Rob for all of your time and feedback — and working on it was such a great way to go down memory lane and remember some key highlights from the journey so far: The June 16th 2020 tweet that gave us our first big spike. The June 17th 2020 tweet that added more fuel to the fire! The impact the two tweets had on user numbers. The very first Plus page! When a TikTok video about us went viral... ...and led to us briefly topping the US App Store Books charts!   Since last time...   I didn't have as much time as I hoped I would for coding last week! Still, I did make some progress towards my goals, one of them being adding the ability to filter down the readalongs page by book title: I also spent some time working on new tooling for our Volunteer Librarians that'll help them keep track of changes on different editions and leave notes for their fellow volunteers.   Next two weeks After my talk on Tuesday morning, I'll go back to focusing on optimising database queries, helping people more easily discover live readalongs and buddy reads suited to them, and deploying new librarian tooling.   What I'm reading I'm currently part way through Noreen Masud's A Flat Place as part of my Women's Prize Nonfiction Shortlist read! Have a great week, Nadia P.S. Know somebody who's an avid reader or would enjoy following along with this journey? Please do forward this email to them! Thank you. :-)   Haven't tried The StoryGraph yet? Check it out today! Love the app? Consider upgrading to our Plus plan! Want to volunteer? Apply to be a Librarian! Use Mastodon? Check out our server! Were you forwarded this email? If you liked what you read, you can subscribe for future updates and catch up on past ones. Copyright © 2024 The One-Woman Dev Team Diaries, All rights reserved. Subscribe for a behind-the-scenes look at my StoryGraph founder journey and beyond. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.