Projects
I started work on LRX-31809, which focuses on converting all headers to sortable headers on the monocle sales history table. To streamline the effort, I combined each individual column sort task into one comprehensive ticket, consolidating LRX-31810, LRX-31811, LRX-31812, LRX-31813, LRX-31815, and LRX-31816. This approach should make the implementation more efficient and reduce overhead.
I also approved Vicky's work on the frontend sales history API, which looks good to go. I responded to comments on my work in graphter sort fields and made the necessary updates. Tomorrow I'll review Dania's work in monocle on LRX-31807 for adding clear filters to sales history, as well as her terraform work on LRX-34912 to add monitoring for the typey-domain-consumer lagging on the sale-documents topic. Additionally, I need to complete my workday self evaluation and add a slide covering my work from the last two weeks to the sprint demos.
Sprint Review
Organizational Work
For the Vend Platform (Swiper/Typey), we shipped payment type visibility improvements for the point-of-sale system. I enhanced the PaymentTypeSaved producer event in swiper to include payment type names (PR #2477) and updated the Elasticsearch sales index in typey to populate payment_type_names (PR #628). This enables better payment reporting and cash movement analytics across the platform. I also completed 7 external PR reviews covering critical commerce functionality including store credit handling, quote rounding fixes, auto-tax calculation improvements, delivery fulfillment UI fixes, and loyalty refund calculations. These reviews helped maintain platform stability and unblocked other engineering teams. We successfully delivered the cash movement reporting epic (LRX-20791), providing merchants with better financial visibility and audit capabilities.
For my personal projects, I launched a comprehensive transcription pipeline for the Rules as Written Podcast Platform with Keystatic CMS migration (PR #74), enabling automated podcast transcript generation and content management. I built a Party Tracker MVP (PR #68), a D&D character management tool that integrates with the podcast content, and resolved SSR lambda issues to ensure proper functionality in production. I completed a major platform upgrade from Gatsby 3 to Astro 6 with Tailwind CSS integration, PWA capabilities, and an overhauled audio player experience. The platform now achieves WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility compliance and includes comprehensive testing infrastructure with Vitest unit tests, behavioral e2e assertions, and SSR testing in deploy previews.
For my personal website (jt.houk.space), I delivered a Vue 3 upgrade by migrating from VuePress 1 to VuePress 2, modernizing the entire tech stack with Vite build system and full Vue 3 ecosystem support. I built engaging user experiences including a terminal console easter egg on the landing page, custom 404 page with falling letters animation, and recommended reads carousel for improved content discovery. I enhanced newsletter functionality with cross-site subscription support, improved accessibility, and better validation, while also implementing newsletter infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform with CDKTF, deploying Keila on Cloud Run with PostgreSQL database integration.