06:55 — One of the cats are scratching at the foot of the bed (box spring, perhaps). I heat up leftovers from last night, make two “shots” of coffee with my AeroPress, and eat breakfast while listening to an episode of Overtired. (Keep up the great work, Christina and Brett! Haiku Decisis is really epic, and I share it with my fellow Community Guardians at WordPress.com.)
09:45 — In Slack, a colleague sees that PopClip is on sale for $1.99 for a short period of time, and I mention Brett’s PopClip Extensions. A couple of us geek about Alfred.
10:09 — I swoon seeing a few more Likes from yesterday’s post, and spot Jeremey DuVall mentioning my Things workflow, which is currently posted internally. I aim to post something slightly more generic this week.
10:18 — Time to clear 32 email notifications from P2s. Gmail keyboard shortcuts are your friend! Some require some reading, so I add that to my “A8Cx – To Read” note in Simplenote1.
10:46 — Eight browser tabs open, some which will turn into tasks in Things.
10:49 — Meh, I don’t want to listen to “Found out about you” by Gin Blossoms. With Alfred, I advance to the next Rdio track by pressing “ne” — which displays the Next Track action from the Rdio Workflow for Alfred 2 by David Ferguson — then Enter.
11:00 — Time to crank through some unresolved posts! Count is at 48.
11:25 — Yikes, one of these threads requires us to create a few Trac tickets for fixes regarding an internal tool we use to process DMCA notices. That’s a project, not task. Into Things it goes.
12:15 — New unresolved posts count: 39. Some threads were “easy” to mark as resolved because they haven’t gotten any other comments, and it didn’t seem like we had to do anything else. Fortunately, people who follow or commented on the thread should see a WordPress.com notification in their admin bar. I’ll have a lot of fans this week. 😉
12:43 — Unresolved posts count: 36. I should get lunch before I lose track of time. I also realized I haven’t taken a break for water. This happens often, but the water bottle we received during the last Grand Meetup helps. I’ll clear the baker’s dozen of P2 notifications once more.
12:47 — I left this fitting animated GIF as a reply for a comment thread.
12:53 — Time for lunch. Feels like Subway.
14:00 — Amy isn’t feeling well, so I took off to take care of an errand for her, then we hung out for a bit.
15:05 — Processing my email and going through Slack back scroll, I smile to see that Steve is in love with Alfred for OS X.
15:30 — Unresolved posts count: 37. Created another internal support page on how to handle a specific type of email notification (edge case).
16:23 — Unresolved posts count: 30. Taking a break to see how Amy is doing.
16:52 — Back in the saddle.
17:35 — Unresolved posts count: 25. Updated another internal support to document new metrics for our automated scanning of spam (or ham) blogs.
18:35 — Unresolved posts count: 12.
18:42 — Calling it a night by publishing this post. See you tomorrow! 🙂
This week, I’m documenting each day along with many other Automatticians. If you’d like to follow along, we’re using the #a8cday tag. If you’re intrigued, we’re hiring!
- The naming scheme was an idea from Michael Schechter, who borrowed it from Merlin Mann. ↩
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Thanks for the shoutout! How are you documenting the times?
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With the clock in the menu bar, and my keyboard. 🙂
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I love the bit at 12:47 🙂
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