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Intro

Quick month, much injury (twisted ankle during bouldering, twisted finger during krav maga)

Engineering leadership

Visited ELCZ + ProductTank Praha: Build synergies over processes and metrics between PM and EM
Much appreciated networking in old Avast offices :3

Psyres LSD day

Visited Psyres and Czeched substance at Cross Club where they presented state of psychedelics ad harm reduction in Czech Republic.

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Runescape 20 years

Book I enjoy very much where there are anecdotes and lore shared about RuneScape development:

For some inexplicable reason, the hardware died at just over half capacity. We had around 1,200 or 1,300 players,The server was only about 60% full but it crashed. We reset it and started again. Every time we hit around 1,300 users, the server died and we couldn’t work out why. We ended up capping that one at 1,200 people and bought a second server. Years later, they found the root of the problem. Staff at the hosting facility found melted plastic all over the blade server motherboards. When the server was originally assembled, whoever built it forgot to take the plastic cover off the CPU heat sink, so it wasn’t properly connected. That’s why it was overheating and crashing. We spent hours trying to find the problem on our end. We ruled out a hardware fault because we eventually had three of these servers and they all had the same problem. We figured that it had to be a software problem. It turns out that every single one of these servers had been assembled in the same way.
“10% of our players were just logging in to chat,” Mod Fetzki (Christoph Vietzke, Head of RuneScape, Jagex, 2005–2012) says. “They wouldn’t even load the game. They’d just sit in the lobby and chat.”
With the move to RuneScape 2, new hires to the Content Development teams were often given their own area of map to develop. In part, this was because Jagex didn’t have version control until much later down the line. As a result, everyone was making additions and changes to one version of RuneScape. Having developers spread out across the map prevented people from stepping on each other’s toes.
The Sandwich Lady was based on a ‘slightly aggressive’ woman who came to Jagex’s St John’s Innovation Centre office23 and often interrupted work. “She would come around shouting ‘Sandwiches!’ as she pushed her trolley through the office,” Mod Ash remembers. “We couldn’t do a trolley in the game for graphical reasons, so we gave her a tray instead. “Sandwiches, I made these for you’ was iconic as a reference to that old lady and her trolley back in St John’s.”

Dynamics

YCombinator MBA Series

slight progress in YC MBA, most of it pull requests :D Writing the material takes twice as long as watching the video but at least i remember some of it.

Tweets

I applied to 100 jobs using a resume with the name, "Kismma D. Nhuhts" and I got 29 interviews.

This is what I've learned about resumes: pic.twitter.com/MWuacsClFP
— Jerry Lee (@JerryJHLee) April 11, 2024

Articles

Things Happen

2 years at Ematiq!
Visited Avast after 2 years
Thinking about tracking how usefull is to read all the articles..

Reading

✅ Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - A very interesting book about negotiating
⌛ The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager - 13 percent
⌛ Meditations - 20 % ready
⌛ Runescape: The First 20 Years–An Illustrated History - 30 %
⌛ Star Trek: Destiny #1: Gods of Night - 1 %

Vietnamese - mushrooms with bamboo and chicken recipe

Started with Duolingo but will switch to Anki. Duolingo is weird and i do not belive smbd can learn lang from this.
I wanna get the recipe for mushrooms with bamboo and chicken. ChatGPT adviced me to get close to vietnamese people - learn their language at least a bit first.

My beloved foods:

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