Work, Woo 

It's the little moments in which you have to take the greatest joys.

At work, I've been working on a massive project automating a task that we've desperately needed to automate. I'm the only developer working on said project, so I've been doing a ton of work on my own recognizance. My team-of-two -- my coworker is doing integration work with other stuff -- finally rose to prominence in our company shipping meeting today.

Work, Woo 

Anticipating that one day, we would be noticed, I created a work item titled only, "what is th' buni working on?" with a link to a blog post documenting what the project is, what it does, how it does it (with diagrams), and why we need it.

Today, at Shiproom, the VP of Engineering finally asked me in the middle of my status update, "forgive me, but... what are you actually working on?"

So, I got the presenter to scroll up to the very top of the board and click on that work item.

Work, Woo 

I actually got applause at the meeting today, for the showmanship.

And it felt good.

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