The One-Woman Dev Team Diaries #198
Weekly themes, Performance Power Hour, and when life is life-ing and work takes a backseat. ❤️🩹
Weekly Theme
Now that I’m in my Performance, UI, and UX Focus Period, I’ve been thinking about how best to split my time across these domains.
A couple of months ago, I experimented with a weekly focus, and the other week, a long-time user and supporter — who was also the person who gave me the idea for the What I’m reading segment — reached out to tell me that he’s a fan of a weekly theme.
So I’ve decided to run with that for as long as it makes sense.
Last week was all about performance.
This week is all about UI and UX.
I’ve started soliciting feedback on how I’m planning to approach the upcoming Favorites feature as part of the profile page redesign:
Performance Power Hour
There’s a long list of performance issues that Rob and I need to prioritise, and day-to-day it’s tricky to carve out time to really sink our teeth into the discussions.
So I’ve blocked off an hour each week in our calendars, dedicated solely to performance. It’s a space to review what needs attention next, decide on our approach, and maybe even co-work or pair up to make progress during the session.
We had our first Performance Power Hour (😆) on Friday and it was so productive!
We both can’t wait to get on top of these issues. I’m sure our users can’t wait either. 😅
Merci Beaucoup…
pour tous les e-mails en français que j’ai reçus en réponse à l’édition #197. 🙏🏾
Life Be Life-ing
For the last issue, in the spirit of “a whole behind-the-scenes look at my life as a one-woman dev team”, I was considering a segment about my ongoing saga of trying to replace a chest of drawers and my bed: a process that’s dragged on for weeks, eaten up hours, forced me into sleeping on the couch, and cut into my dev time…
And then something else happened. Something that put it all into raw perspective.
A few days ago, I found out that a friend was suddenly hospitalised with a life-threatening condition.
In the face of that news, everything else felt insignificant.
I cleared my calendar and headed to the hospital.
I’ve been there every day since, and I plan to keep going until he’s out.
Work will get done when it gets done. ❤️🩹
What I'm reading
I’ll hopefully be finishing The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes today, the first Hunger Games prequel. I’ve got mixed feelings about it and I am very curious to see how it ends.
Have a great week,
Nadia