<commit_before>title = "Sequences"
description = """\
A combined sequence bringing in all the previous ones. 
\
"""

[[entries]]
  occurred_at = 2022-11-08T18:08:05Z
  slug = "027"
  title = "Rain and random encounters"

  description = """\
People have an outdated assumption that it rains a lot in San Francisco. Maybe it used to, but it hasn't been common for years. It's mid-November, and I'd call this maybe our third "serious" rain day of the year where we're actually getting more than a few millimeters of precipitation (although I'm sure I'm off by a couple days).

I made my way downtown, and getting off at Montgomery, randomly ran into Mark, an old API buddy. We talked API DSLs, OpenAPI, and tooling for generating workflows and libraries for a good half hour -- maybe my first IRL API discussion in years.

I stopped by Salesforce Park afterwards to shoot some rare photos of its grounds empty and in the rain. but made the error of bringing only a prime 50 mm, which turned out to exactly the wrong lens for the job. I didn't do it justice in the above, but it's a remarkably great park.
"""

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    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/rzprz81f6po5q15/2W4A1846.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "027"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/nd710qtnp32s1dl/2W4A1844.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "027b"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/t9nweflqwv34obx/2W4A1845.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "027c"

[[entries]]
  occurred_at = 2022-11-07T17:09:04Z
  slug = "026"
  title = "Coastal weather"

  description = """\
Charleston again, continuing from [024](/sequences/024). A few of us arrived a day before our on-site officially started, and intended to spend the day sightseeing in downtown.

We did, sort of. We took the water taxi in, walked around for half an hour, but just like the night before, the sky opened up. Taking refuge in a nearby coffee shop, we hoped to wait the problem out, but in Charleston, the weather can stay irritating longer than you can stay patient. We timed out after about an hour and went to lunch instead, and even by the time we finished that, the rain wasn't done. I called the water tax to see if we could still take it for the return trip and their response was, "technically yes, but you might not want to" (it's a small, flat, very exposed type of boat). We took an Uber instead.

A side effect of the plethora of rain is that it left me with few photos of Charleston overall -- our on-site started the next day and we spent most of it in meeting rooms. I'm looking forward to making my way back to Charleston somewhere down the line to correct that.
"""

  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/deu2h3x1bljm7om/2W4A1810.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "026"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeie1pjuhpvs1da/2W4A1805.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "026b"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/20bz5v32cn36h5e/2W4A1808-the-rise.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "026c"

[[entries]]
  occurred_at = 2022-11-06T18:34:50Z
  slug = "025"
  title = "Inaugural Sessions"

  description = """\
The first ever Stripe [Sessions](https://stripe.com/sessions) in 2017, which I don't think I think I was supposed to be attending, but for which I was given a spot at the last second.

As I was looking at these, I was wishing that I'd written more down about the period since I didn't remember much anymore, only to realize that I'd been good about writing journal entries around then, and had a long one from that day. Most of it's unpublishable, but here's an excerpt about employee orientation:

> They gave us the usual spiel about how we should never get more specific than saying that we process "billions of dollars for hundreds of thousands of businesses", and said that we shouldn't say anything about the technology behind Sigma (to add mystique and imply that it's built on a powerful, secret platform proprietary to Stripe).

It was the launch day for [Stripe's Sigma](https://stripe.com/sigma), which would be announced as part of a Jobs-esque event keynote.

Stripe's [_Increment_ magazine](https://increment.com/on-call/) had just launched a few months earlier, and you can see a few of the issues of _On-call (#1)_ laid out. I'd thought _Increment_ was a mangificient idea, but my instinct nowadays is more akin to finding a shredder as I realize that the issue was written _about_ on-call in an organizational sense, but with very little input from the people who _actually were on-call_. This was reflective of Stripe's top-down attitude towards engineering resources, which were interchangeable cogs whose worth went as far as the specific functions they performed. An engineer's on-call wasn't a service to be respected -- it was a duty, and a duty with a 5-minute SLA.

These photos are five years olds, but I've had Stripe on the mind because [they've been in the news recently](https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees).
"""

  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/ped17xkt1fa9dx5/L1000733.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "025"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/48p6844q0ij8vzh/L1000720.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "025b"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/toebqzyqu9s5gns/L1000724.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "025c"

[[entries]]
  occurred_at = 2022-11-06T18:05:24Z
  slug = "024"
  title = "Charleston"

  description = """\
Technically, these days I work for a company headquartered in South Carolina. Charleston specifically.<commit_msg>Improve wording<commit_after>title = "Sequences"
description = """\
A combined sequence bringing in all the previous ones. 
\
"""

[[entries]]
  occurred_at = 2022-11-08T18:08:05Z
  slug = "027"
  title = "Rain and random encounters"

  description = """\
People have an outdated assumption that it rains a lot in San Francisco. Maybe it used to, but it hasn't been common for years. It's mid-November, and I'd call this maybe our third "serious" rain day of the year where we're actually getting more than a few millimeters of precipitation (although I'm sure I'm off by a couple days).

I made my way downtown, and getting off at Montgomery, randomly ran into Mark, an old API buddy. We talked API DSLs, OpenAPI, and tooling for generating workflows and libraries for a good half hour -- maybe my first IRL API discussion in years.

I stopped by Salesforce Park afterwards to shoot some rare photos of its grounds empty and in the rain. but made the error of bringing only a prime 50 mm, which turned out to exactly the wrong lens for the job. I didn't do it justice in the above, but it's a remarkably great park.
"""

  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/rzprz81f6po5q15/2W4A1846.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "027"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/nd710qtnp32s1dl/2W4A1844.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "027b"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/t9nweflqwv34obx/2W4A1845.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "027c"

[[entries]]
  occurred_at = 2022-11-07T17:09:04Z
  slug = "026"
  title = "Coastal weather"

  description = """\
Charleston again, continuing from [024](/sequences/024). A few of us arrived a day before our on-site officially started, and intended to spend the day sightseeing in downtown.

We did, sort of. We took the water taxi in, walked around for half an hour, but just like the night before, the sky opened up. Taking refuge in a nearby coffee shop, we hoped to wait the problem out, but in Charleston, the weather can stay irritating longer than you can stay patient. We timed out after about an hour and went to lunch instead, and even by the time we finished that, the rain wasn't done. I called the water tax to see if we could still take it for the return trip and their response was, "technically yes, but you might not want to" (it's a small, flat, very exposed type of boat). We took an Uber instead.

A side effect of the plethora of rain is that it left me with few photos of Charleston overall -- our on-site started the next day and we spent most of it in meeting rooms. I'm looking forward to making my way back to Charleston somewhere down the line to correct that.
"""

  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/deu2h3x1bljm7om/2W4A1810.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "026"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeie1pjuhpvs1da/2W4A1805.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "026b"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/20bz5v32cn36h5e/2W4A1808-the-rise.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "026c"

[[entries]]
  occurred_at = 2022-11-06T18:34:50Z
  slug = "025"
  title = "Inaugural Sessions"

  description = """\
The first ever Stripe [Sessions](https://stripe.com/sessions) in 2017, which I don't think I think I was supposed to be attending, but for which I was given a spot at the last second.

As I was looking at these, I was wishing that I'd written more down about the period since I didn't remember much anymore, only to realize that I'd been good about writing journal entries around then, and had a long one from that day. Most of it's unpublishable, but here's an excerpt about employee orientation:

> They gave us the usual spiel about how we should never get more specific than saying that we process "billions of dollars for hundreds of thousands of businesses", and said that we shouldn't say anything about the technology behind Sigma (to add mystique and imply that it's built on a powerful, secret platform proprietary to Stripe).

It was the launch day for [Stripe's Sigma](https://stripe.com/sigma), which would be announced as part of a Jobs-esque event keynote.

Stripe's [_Increment_ magazine](https://increment.com/on-call/) had just launched a few months earlier, and you can see a few of the issues of _On-call (#1)_ laid out. I'd thought _Increment_ was a mangificient idea, but my instinct nowadays is more akin to finding the nearest shredder. The whole issue was written _about_ on-call in an organizational sense, but with very little input from the people who _actually were on-call_. This was reflective of Stripe's top-down attitude towards engineering resources, which were interchangeable cogs whose worth went as far as the specific functions they performed. An engineer's on-call wasn't a service to be respected by the org -- it was a mandated duty, and one with a 5-minute SLA.

These photos are five years olds, but I've had Stripe on the mind because [they've been in the news recently](https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees).
"""

  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/ped17xkt1fa9dx5/L1000733.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "025"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/48p6844q0ij8vzh/L1000720.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "025b"
  [[entries.photographs]]
    original_image_url = "https://www.dropbox.com/s/toebqzyqu9s5gns/L1000724.JPG?dl=1"
    slug = "025c"

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  occurred_at = 2022-11-06T18:05:24Z
  slug = "024"
  title = "Charleston"

  description = """\
Technically, these days I work for a company headquartered in South Carolina. Charleston specifically.
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