July 16, 2019

I have not worked on Buttondown very much the past two weeks, which has frankly been a bummer. I like working on Buttondown, and not being able to fit it into my days is more of a personal failure — work has been Good Busy, life has been awash in the kind of things that summer life is often awash in, and the Seattle summer days tick by. You blink and it is 7pm; you have more work to do, but also there is a grill and an unquenchable desire for hefeweizen.

There is a lag between process and results, though. Despite doing nothing in July, all of the things are good: customer support requests are down (thanks to the fruits of boring but necessary work three months ago), growth is slightly up (though it should be more!), and things are largely stable.

In some respects, my eyes are larger than my stomach. Take this, my WIP pull request for my metrics dashboard: