Krzysztof’s Design Notebook

Founding member, project manager, bald guy

Week of 23 January 2023

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Completed Oreintation Lab 1, configured git and GitHub access for use with Anubis because my computer recently had a stroke and I don’t trust it to hold anything even remotely resembling anything that could be somewhat important.

Also started a secondary VIP repo for my work and notebook, I’m a little bit paranoid since my PC had the aforementioned stroke.

Week of 30 January 2023

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Playing a little bit of catch-up-ahead, because my availability may get spotty over the next few weeks, turns out that getting married takes up a lot of time before it actually happens!

Completed Orientation Labs 2 & 3, went fairly smoothly, although I did have to do what is called a PRO-proGrAMmER-MOVE and did google a lot for syntax and basic terms reasons, because I never remeber things when I need them (obviously).

Also have been appointed Project Manager, as the other more different bald person on the team, I think there’s a pattern emerging here…

Another interesting side effect of my computer’s near death experience is that my minus key is very dead. I found out when I had to fix code, because none of the keystrokes on the - key registered (I hope insert key will not be required moving forward in my life, because it’s now rebinded to -). And the speakers stopped working. And the screen has a purple smudge in the middle, because red and blue subpixels dont turn off properly.

Week of 6 February 2023

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Completed Orientation Lab 4, all seemingly straightforward, however (disclosure), I did not test/compile the code, because Anubis was having none of it at the time I was doing the lab, and I did not have time to come back to it this week.

Completed bi-weekly PM rounds to make sure all team members have everything they need to complete their tasks for the week.

Updated my design notebook, and that was it for the week. Getting married really does take up a lot of one’s time - will do my best to catch up after next two weeks pass.

Week of 12 Februrary 2023

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The week of getting married, busy with everything outside of school, only had time to complete one round of PMs. Had a quick meeting with Vito, then Rielle to help get everyone on the same page when it comes to documentation. Made some minor formatting changes to my Design Notebook.

Week of 20 February 2023

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The week after I got married, completely slammed with starting midterm season and overdue school work. Creating this entry more than a week later than the date above.

Week of 27 February 2023

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Completed lab 5 reading portion, inicluding the blogpost, and my rounds of PMs. A few people had difficulty when navigating github, especially when it comes to all the naming (forks, branches, upstream, origin, and all the other lingo software people use). Had the first team leadership meeting, and attended my first general team meeting, because my class I usually have at 5 got moved( but only this time I’m afraid).

Week of 10 April 2023

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A first entry in a while, but the previous ones would have been repetitive. I completed my rounds of PMs, made sure everyone finished their onboarding labs, helped divide team mebers into subteams working on specific modules and components, kept track of what everyone needs. Rinse and repeat for every week since last update.

This week I gave a presentation on every pet-peeve I’ve ever had with bad presentations over the years, hoping it will help some people avoid the very common mistakes I have seen. The recording of the presenation is above, slides can be shared upon request.

Also made minor formatting changes to my DN, making sure it’s viable to serve as an example of standard formatting for the team.