A week in Austin that turned into something different than planned, my first time leading a steering committee, and discovering that grackles run that town. Shipped I spent most of the week in Austin for work. What had been originally scheduled as end-to-end testing of our new software turned into training and on-site team building when the lab wasn’t quite ready for full testing yet. So I spent my time improving our tooling, meeting folks in the organization who are based in Austin, and getting a feel for how the place operates. The deployment will be rescheduled, but I took the opportunity to lay the groundwork to make the Austin office my “home base.” There are plenty of personal reasons to spend time in Austin too, so I’m looking forward to a regular cadence of trips where I can mix work and pleasure. My new home base, when I'm not at home. The new software my team is launching sits on top of a platform written entirely in-house — a collection of services that can be connected…
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