moved standup to 9am for "alignment." half the team is parents. half is west coast. alignment became yawns. suggested async updates. manager said culture. culture is tired people pretending alert. pull request comments arrived like weather. some helpful rain. some hail. i rebased at eleven pm because ci waits for no one. standup tomorrow will hear blocked on review while meaning please approve so i can sleep. the codebase grows and my houseplants shrink. unrelated tragedies. ai tool suggested a refactor i already tried and failed. nodded at the screen like a polite meeting. documentation lagged reality again. shipped a fix smaller than the problem and larger than my patience. engineering is triage with git blame. pull request comments arrived like weather. some helpful rain. some hail. i rebased at eleven pm because ci waits for no one. standup tomorrow will hear blocked on review while meaning please approve so i can sleep. the codebase grows and my houseplants shrink. unrelated tragedies.
Standup at 9 Means Nothing Before Coffee
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Standup at 9 Means Nothing Before Coffee
They moved standup to 9 a.m. for alignment. Half the team is parents. Half is West Coast. Alignment became yawns.
I suggested async updates. My manager said culture.
Culture is tired people pretending alert.
Developer life is calendars authored by people who do not write code before caffeine. Standups should serve the work, not the theater of visibility.
I drink my coffee after the meeting now. Small rebellion.
The story continues in the body after the words stop. Shoulders lower, or they do not. Tomorrow arrives with its own list. I am still here, which is not nothing.
I do not need a moral. I need an honest next step. Sometimes that is rest. Sometimes it is showing up again before you feel ready.
The story continues in the body after the words stop. Shoulders lower, or they do not. Tomorrow arrives with its own list. I am still here, which is not nothing.
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