Today's Daily Double is... writing the retro!

rainy again and the morning came in broken, the auth provider went down so nothing worked anywhere for anyone and i just sat there rattling doorknobs on my own product. v frustrating. but the day turned, and by afternoon i'd merged the scripted test case backend, then the docs, then the frontend behind it. weeks of work clicking shut.

then the harder thing: wrote the retro on the model swap saga that ate the first half of this month. two versions, one for inside and one for outside. prompt leaks, calls ending early, regressions that hit real customers, the rollback, all of it. retros are supposed to be blameless and they are, on paper, but you know which line items are yours. mine says I promoted it to production too early, and writing that sentence down in clean prose is weirdly freeing? you write exactly how the machine fooled you and how you fooled yourself, and the next guy (probably also you) gets fooled by something new instead. that's progress i think.

and bc the universe grades on a curve, same afternoon i changed the database without a migration. lesson noted. the retro never ends.

lamb sandwich for lunch, called Grandma (seems well, though surely old). rain finally broke and the ferry ride home was clear, huzzah. i may have promised somebody tracing by tuesday. prolly shoulda said longer