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March 4, 2026·Montreal

Wednesday March 4, 2026

Completing post-incident review for SEV-3 reporting consumer lag and running sprint retro

incident-responseteam
  • March 3, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday March 3, 2026

    Adding name to PaymentTypeSaved Kafka event producer and preparing sprint review deck

    sales-historyteam
  • March 2, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday March 2, 2026

    Testing invoice number sort in the GraphQL service locally

    sales-historytesting
  • February 26, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday February 26, 2026

    Merging invoice number sort, reviewing store credit PR, and leading SEV-3 reporting consumer lag triage

    sales-historyincident-responsecode-review
  • February 25, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday February 25, 2026

    Reviewing sales filters and autocomplete PRs from teammates

    sales-historycode-review
  • February 24, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday February 24, 2026

    Deploying invoice number sort, resolving SEV-1 sales history incident, and reflecting on AI ethics

    sales-historyincident-responsecompliance
  • February 23, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday February 23, 2026

    Updating invoice number sort branch, reviewing PRs, and proposing documentation improvements

    sales-historycode-reviewelasticsearch
  • February 18, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday February 18, 2026

    Working on sales history improvements and line item consolidation

    sales-historyelasticsearchtestingcode-review
  • February 17, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday February 17, 2026

    Continuing sales history improvements and completing self evaluation

    sales-historycode-reviewteam
  • February 16, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday February 16, 2026

    Catching up after vacation and completing self evaluation

    sales-historydebuggingteam
  • January 29, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday January 29, 2026

    Resolving severity-2 incident with sales history consumer

    sales-historydebuggingincident-response
  • January 27, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday January 27, 2026

    Successfully testing migration script and retailer settings endpoints

    line-item-consolidationtestingcode-review
  • January 26, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday January 26, 2026

    Investigating Cash Movement Report data issues and reviewing PRs

    sales-historydebuggingcode-review
  • January 22, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday January 22, 2026

    Testing migration script for line item consolidation

    line-item-consolidationsales-historytesting
  • January 21, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday January 21, 2026

    Merging Sales History changes and handling deployment rollback

    sales-historyline-item-consolidationincident-responseinfrastructure
  • January 19, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday January 19, 2026

    Picking up line item consolidation priority ticket and planning implementation

    sales-historyline-item-consolidationarchitecture
  • January 16, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday January 16, 2026

    Validating customer search indexing changes and reviewing PRs

    sales-historyelasticsearchtestingcode-review
  • January 14, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday January 14, 2026

    Setting up testing environment for customer documents handler updates

    sales-historyelasticsearchdebuggingtesting
  • January 12, 2026·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday January 12, 2026

    Fixing localization issues and reviewing consumer work

    sales-historylocalizationcode-review
  • December 19, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday December 19, 2025

    Improving localization keys for Sales History filters with guidance from Juliana

    sales-historyteam
  • December 18, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday December 18, 2025

    No entries logged for the day

    life
  • December 17, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday December 17, 2025

    Merging Sales History changes and writing holiday card

    sales-historylife
  • December 16, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday December 16, 2025

    Refactoring sales total filter and personal life updates

    sales-historylife
  • December 15, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday December 15, 2025

    Analyzing slow Cash Movement Report query and managing Sales History megabranch

    performancesales-historyinfrastructure
  • December 11, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday December 11, 2025

    Completing Cash Movement Report rollout and Sales History time range filter with retrospective

    deploymentsales-historyteam
  • December 10, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday December 10, 2025

    Completing Cash Movement Report rollout and implementing Sales History time range filter

    deploymentsales-history
  • December 9, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday December 9, 2025

    Rolling out Cash Movement Report to 75% of customers and addressing Sales History bundle size issues

    deploymentperformancesales-history
  • December 8, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday December 8, 2025

    Continuing Cash Movement Report rollout and resolving Sales History merge conflicts

    deploymentsales-history
  • December 4, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday December 4, 2025

    Finalizing Sales History filter and investigating Cash Movement Report patch

    sales-historydebugging
  • December 3, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday December 3, 2025

    Wrapping up Cash Movement Report updates and Sales History improvements

    sales-historycode-review
  • November 27, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday November 27, 2025

    Debugging Sales History data loading issues

    sales-historydebugging
  • November 26, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday November 26, 2025

    Troubleshooting Sales History data loading issues

    sales-historydebugging
  • November 25, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday November 25, 2025

    Kicking off Sales History improvements and updating Cash Movement Report docs

    sales-historylife
  • November 19, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday November 19, 2025

    Finalizing Cash Movement Report performance improvements and exploring AI for test analysis

    performancedebugging
  • November 18, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday November 18, 2025

    Optimizing Cash Movement Report performance

    performanceinfrastructure
  • November 17, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday November 17, 2025

    Preparing for Cash Movement Report rollout

    deploymentperformance
  • November 14, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday November 14, 2025

    Fixing sorting and amount display issues in cash movement report

    debuggingsales-history
  • November 13, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday November 13, 2025

    Deploying time zone bug fix and Cash Movement Report frontend

    cash-movement-reportdebuggingperformance
  • November 12, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday November 12, 2025

    Fixing time zone bug and planning performance tests

    cash-movement-reportdebugging
  • November 11, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday November 11, 2025

    Debugging BigQuery issues and reviewing Cash Movement Report project

    cash-movement-reportdebugging
  • November 4, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday November 4, 2025

    Preparing Cash Movement Report for production release

    cash-movement-report
  • October 30, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday October 30, 2025

    Merging frontend tasks, swapping mock data for real API calls, and helping Dania debug CI.

    cash-movement-reportdebugging
  • October 29, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday October 29, 2025

    Progress on unblocking the cash movement report by taking over Vikki's tasks and reviewing Kapil's work.

    cash-movement-reportdata-pipelinedebugging
  • October 28, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday October 28, 2025

    Getting up to speed on the cash movement report after a 2 week break.

    cash-movement-reportcode-reviewperformance
  • October 9, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday October 9, 2025

    Investigating errors in the cash movement deployment and assisting with cost analysis for the search index.

    cash-movement-reportdebuggingperformance
  • October 8, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday October 8, 2025

    Progress on deploying the cash movement CDC stream and addressing access issues with production datasets.

    cash-movement-reportdata-pipelineinfrastructure
  • October 7, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday October 7, 2025

    Initial success in locating offline mode UBEs in BigQuery and analyzing cost data.

    performanceinfrastructure
  • October 6, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday October 6, 2025

    Awaiting approval for Cash Movement Report changes and planning to investigate offline mode costs.

    cash-movement-reportdata-pipeline
  • October 2, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday October 2, 2025

    Implementing optimizations for the Cash Movement Report in BigQuery and continuing French studies.

    cash-movement-reportperformancecode-reviewteam
  • October 1, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday October 1, 2025

    Finalizing cash movement CDC stream configuration and investigating register_closure webhooks.

    cash-movement-reportdata-pipelinecode-review
  • September 30, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday September 30, 2025

    Progress on the Cash Movement Report and ongoing investigations into offline mode costs.

    cash-movement-reportdata-pipelineperformance
  • September 29, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday September 29, 2025

    Discoveries and setbacks while working on the Cash Movement Report and ideas for improving documentation with AI.

    cash-movement-reportdebuggingarchitecture
  • September 25, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday September 25, 2025

    Onboarding team members to Cash Movement Report and creating feature flags

    cash-movement-reportteamdebugging
  • September 24, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday September 24, 2025

    Adding test data to BigQuery and onboarding Insaf & Vikky

    cash-movement-reportinfrastructureteam
  • September 22, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday September 22, 2025

    Progress on Cash Movement Report foundational work

    cash-movement-reportdata-pipelineinfrastructure
  • September 19, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday September 19, 2025

    Following up on BigQuery access PR, updating project roadmap, and reviewing Dania's line item splitting PR.

    cash-movement-reportcode-review
  • September 18, 2025·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday September 18, 2025

    Setting up BigQuery access for the selling experience team and reviewing line item splitting PR.

    cash-movement-reportinfrastructurecode-review
  • December 17, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday December 17, 2024

    Town hall, discount stack post mortem, code reviews, and QA

    post-mortemcode-review
  • December 9, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday December 9, 2024

    Cannabinoid lot investigation, register endpoint, Manitoba compliance, and auto discount fix

    cannabinoidscomplianceauto-discounts
  • November 21, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday November 21, 2024

    Code reviews, performance testing customer count changes, and lot metadata performance release

    lot-metadataperformancecode-review
  • November 20, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday November 20, 2024

    Helped with infra deploy, deployed tickets, and discussed OpenTelemetry possibilities

    infrastructureobservability
  • November 19, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday November 19, 2024

    Code reviews, cannabinoid location behavior, epic breakdown, and removing customer count code

    cannabinoidscode-reviewperformance
  • November 13, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday November 13, 2024

    Gift card support, transaction debugging, 1/1 with Marcos, and testing

    gift-cardstransactionstesting
  • November 12, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday November 12, 2024

    Merrco gift card investigation, on-call rotation, and production incident response

    gift-cardsincident-response
  • November 8, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday November 8, 2024

    Customer count query index fix, lot metadata discussion, and ecom feedback session

    performancelot-metadata
  • November 5, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday November 5, 2024

    Deployment support, gift card investigation with ecom, and code reviews

    gift-cardsdeploymentcode-review
  • November 1, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday November 1, 2024

    Created ticket for destroying orphaned stacks

    infrastructure
  • October 31, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday October 31, 2024

    Fixing hanging stacks and investigating ecom service errors

    infrastructuredebugging
  • October 28, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday October 28, 2024

    Bug fixes, deleted users investigation, 1/1, and failpoint work

    debuggingfailpoint
  • October 24, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday October 24, 2024

    Code reviews and performance testing

    code-reviewperformance
  • October 22, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday October 22, 2024

    SMS phone configuration, Pinpoint QA role setup, and external products performance testing

    smspinpointperformance
  • October 10, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday October 10, 2024

    Lot metadata design session with deep dive into external products and API versioning

    lot-metadataarchitecture
  • October 9, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday October 9, 2024

    System review ticket prioritization, sandbox auth support, and customer support

    system-reviewcode-review
  • October 8, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday October 8, 2024

    Large code reviews, lot metadata design discussion, and deployment fix

    lot-metadatacode-reviewdeployment
  • October 7, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday October 7, 2024

    Catching up after time off, reviewing snapshot and hackathon work, planning lot metadata

    lot-metadatacode-review
  • September 20, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday September 20, 2024

    Supporting teammates on snapshots, hackathon webhooks, and Cube feedback

    mentoringhackathon
  • September 17, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday September 17, 2024

    Architecture session with Byeong and Peter, audit data analysis, and feature flag work

    architecturefeature-flagsinventory-snapshots
  • September 16, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday September 16, 2024

    Testing Tiago's compliance ticket

    testing
  • September 13, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday September 13, 2024

    DevOps priority meeting, compliance stack work, honeypot investigation, and snapshot testing

    devopscomplianceinventory-snapshots
  • September 11, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday September 11, 2024

    VSCode environment issues, audit debugging, and pipeline support

    debuggingaudit
  • September 10, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday September 10, 2024

    Sandbox support, delivery zone estimation, and architecture meeting

    delivery-zonesarchitecture
  • September 9, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday September 9, 2024

    Compliance issues meeting with Byeong, snapshot cancel demo, and delivery zone estimation

    complianceinventory-snapshotsdelivery-zones
  • September 6, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday September 6, 2024

    Completed snapshot cancel endpoint and helped Sylvie debug product data

    inventory-snapshotscode-review
  • September 5, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday September 5, 2024

    Degrading Apdex scores discussion, snapshot test fixes, and transaction code review

    inventory-snapshotssystem-reviewcode-review
  • September 4, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday September 4, 2024

    Released sync-quantities endpoint and reviewed multiple PRs

    inventory-snapshotscode-review
  • September 3, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday September 3, 2024

    Architecture discussion on surcharges, post mortem on destroyed web distribution, and sales channel discount timing

    architecturepost-mortemsales-channels
  • August 30, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday August 30, 2024

    Hotfixes for product export scaling and Ontario compliance retries

    hotfixcode-review
  • August 29, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday August 29, 2024

    OCS submission investigation for Ganjika House and inventory snapshot resync progress

    inventory-snapshotscompliance
  • August 28, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday August 28, 2024

    Released inventory snapshots endpoint and helped debug MySQL transaction test issues

    inventory-snapshotsdebugging
  • August 27, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday August 27, 2024

    Ignite talk on MySQL geospatial types, delivery zones discussion, and inventory snapshot work

    geospatialinventory-snapshotsdelivery-zones
  • August 26, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Monday August 26, 2024

    US compliance coordination, inventory snapshot monitoring, and 1/1 on growing responsibilities

    complianceinventory-snapshotscode-review
  • August 23, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday August 23, 2024

    System review on Budvue rate limiting, and inventory snapshot query fixes

    inventory-snapshotssystem-review
  • August 22, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Thursday August 22, 2024

    KML delivery zones epic breakdown, US products service meeting, and Budvue integration investigation

    delivery-zonesgeospatialarchitecture
  • August 21, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Wednesday August 21, 2024

    Leads meeting on stability vs features, architecture review of KML delivery zones, and integration debugging

    architecturedelivery-zonesinvestigations
  • August 20, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Tuesday August 20, 2024

    Custom fields meeting, inventory snapshot batch fixes, and deployment testing

    inventory-snapshotsproduct-import
  • August 16, 2024·JT Houk·Montreal

    Friday August 16, 2024

    Team retro on QA process, delivery zones scoping, and investigating missing lot inventory

    retrodelivery-zonesinventory