The most valuable commodity a small team has is time and attention space.

On the upside, it is slightly easier to work independently and avoid the cavalcade of meetings that sometimes comes with bigger teams. On the downside, your team eventually works on fewer things.

As a lead, I have been thinking about how to make the best use of this attention in order to both, work on things we like to work on, and get things done which may be needed, but perhaps are not as interesting.

We sometimes use claude or gemini, but mostly in ideation and planning, and of course the copilot auto-complete. The general consensus within our team is mostly in favour of this research, as the team, include me, can confirm the findings with personal experience.

But perhaps, AI’s place in the workplace is already incontrovertible.

I have a WIP matrix in mind that I want to try. Please don’t pay too much attention to the individual tickets here; they are subjective, and moreover, just examples.

I will talk about how the experiments go in the future.

Interesting reads

1. https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/
   An interesting story of when some polish trains stopped working suspiciously after a repair even though everything looked fine.

2. https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3maqpvianlc2a
   Chad Fowler writes how the fundamental problem with code-maintainability remains the same even with all the upheaval with how everyone writes code with recent advancements in AI.

3. https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
   This article on linked-in verification closes a slightly serious bunch of articles this week.

   I think the problem is more of policy that stops/restricts these verification companies’ shady businesses and privacy . With age-verification being pushed by governments in many of the western countries, it is going to be increasingly difficult to avoid falling into the clutches of one of these data brokers.

A project I am working on

This week, I want to share a project that I have been working on recently.
It is a markdown editor that lets you update your documents online. The goal was a better UX for people like me, who host the blog posts as markdown in a repo. But perhaps, it can be interesting for writing docs in projects as well.

usaa.ma/markedit at main

A deployable markdown editor that connects with your self hosted files and lets you edit in a beautiful interface

A photo I took

The snow continues. Probably last of the season. Until next week 👋🏽