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Ok, so I promised Spenser to go look into that problem of error being returned when you invite someone.

But it turned out that I don't seem to have access to that internal tool. Ok, and I postponed it till a meeting.

At the standup I complained about this, and Janet promised to help.

Next was a meeting with Janet. To get access to that tool, Janet sent me an invitation from the tool. I receive an invitation in my mail, and click the link, and enter the password, twice (so that, you know...), and it redirects me to login, and my password does not work. After a couple of attempts I click "forgot password", and it sends me an email. The email link ("reset password") opens a page that first asks me my "old password". No, neither of the passwords I've been using in this company worked. We tried again, and it did not work either.

So I'll need to ping our IT guys. But Janet decided to investigate the issue. So she went to Spenser's page, and found that he did invite himself, and there are two Spensers, but it did not work through the whole process for him.

Ok, then we decided to ask Spenser to invite someone else, and went over to datadog. I mean, Janet did. Since in that tool she found the long user id for Spenser, and now we could check out what he did and what he received. We had spent an hour getting through; my attempts to stop it, since I can browse logs myself, did not work. We skipped another meeting.

But then yet another meeting started... to which I went, but Janet did not. That meeting was "casual social", and we chatted (I mostly just listened) about this and that, and life, and Scala, and I got an impression that Scala is really a great job security tool. People are afraid of it. The word "monad" was replaced by the word "IO", and so this is like Scala programmers secret knowledge. And that's how Scala programmers, all of them, are paid "a lot", compared to others. Like, Jeremey said, if an experienced Scala programmer comes over and agrees to $150k/year, this guy is under suspicion. There are no such Scala programmers that get $150k/year.

Ok, anyway. After that I also worked on that dashboard (it's okay now), and then got back to the doc generator. Basically, the problems I have there are the problems I seeded when I slapped together a prototype. Don't build a prototype. Build something solid from the very beginning. Or else figuring out where does this content come from, a resource? A user file? Etc. 

Working on it.