Thursday — May 21st 2026
#2026/2026-05/2026-05-21
Thursday — May 21st 2026
🏢 Work
- Update Project Planning
🧠 Deep Work Block (2pm – 4pm)
Focus: Write the API reference docs for the /charge endpoint. No Slack, no meetings.
🏢 Work
- Update Project Planning
📒 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
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