Daily Note - 2026-05-21

2026-05-21

⇦ Yesterday ⁝ Tomorrow ⇨

Thursday — May 21st 2026

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🏢 Work

• Sent follow-up on payment processor contract
• Reviewed Sara’s PR for the 3DS crash fix — LGTM, approved
• Write first draft of beta onboarding email sequence
• Update Project Planning with new timeline from this morning’s standup
• Review Liam’s brand palette mockups (shared on Figma) 🛫 2026-05-27 ✅ 2026-05-27

🧠 Deep Work Block (2pm – 4pm)

Focus: Write the API reference docs for the /charge endpoint. No Slack, no meetings.

🏢 Work

• Sent follow-up on payment processor contract
• Reviewed Sara’s PR for the 3DS crash fix — LGTM, approved
• Write first draft of beta onboarding email sequence
• Update Project Planning with new timeline from this morning’s standup daily #2026/05/21 urgent important
• Review Liam’s brand palette mockups (shared on Figma)

📒 Journal

Today’s standup was short — good sign. The 3DS fix going in is a relief, that bug has been blocking QA for a week. Feeling cautiously optimistic about the June 15 freeze date.

Spent lunch reading more of Learning - How LLMs Work — the RLHF section is clicking now. Want to ask Claude about DPO vs RLHF in more detail tonight.

💡 Ideas

• What if we shipped a “sandbox mode” with NovaPay that generates fake successful payments for demo/testing? Developers always want this.
• Could use the AI Browser Chat plugin to summarise all open beta partner notes before tomorrow’s check-in call.

📚 Reading

• Continuing Atomic Habits — just hit the Goldilocks Rule chapter (Book Notes - Atomic Habits)
• Queue: “Staff Engineer” by Will Larson

flowchart TB
    A("Start")
    B(["B"])
    C{"C"}
    A -.-> B
    %% mermidiana:pos A=60,60 B=60,260 C=196,97

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DataView

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