Automation

The Problem: Scattered Notes Across Jira I had to prepare 4 presentations, and naturally, all the related information was scattered across Jira as individual issues. Stories, tasks, subtasks - all with different statuses, assignments, and nested under epics I could barely remember. The obvious solution: export everything to Markdown, build a local knowledge base, and write my presentations from there. But here’s the thing - Jira doesn’t have a built-in export to Markdown. You get CSV, JSON via API, or the browser’s “print to PDF” (which is useless). No CSV means no Excel, no easy formatting. ...

The Random Idea So I was working with Claude on something completely unrelated, and somehow we ended up talking about voice cloning with Kokoro TTS. And then I had this thought: “What if I could turn my blog posts into videos?” Not for any good reason. Just… what if? Claude: This is how most of our sessions start. “What if…” followed by 3 hours of building something we didn’t plan to build. ...

The Portfolio Paradox “Which graphic designer has the best portfolio? The one who doesn’t have work.” My old graphic designer colleague said this, and holy shit, it’s true for all of us in tech. When do I have time to work on my personal blog? When I’m not shipping releases, fixing production bugs, or juggling 20 side projects. Wait, did I say 20? Yeah. Twenty. Maybe more. I lost count. ...

I realized that using a project management framework is not an option for me. Usually, I adapt how my current company works, but this may not be a good choice if you already have a so-called working system. I like the idea of what I call scrumban. It is a mixture of Scrum and Kanban. In this framework, I have: a backlog a prioritized list of the current sprint activities daily standups the in-progress queues should only contain 2-4 active items that I’m working on if something important lands on my desk, I can add the todo to my current tasks. if I have done everything in the “sprint”, I can pick anything from my backlog And eventually, I have an opportunity to reevaluate my working habits. When I showed my Obsidian Kanban board to my spouse, she said: “This is great! But it would be better if I could also add some tasks to you.” You know, like cleaning, going to the grocery, fixing this, anything like these. ...