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To delegate effectively to a new team, you have to explain the following:

1. Context and goal
2. Expected results
3. What to do
4. How to do it

As the team grows and they learn how to do the work, it become sufficient and appropriate to explain only the first three bullet points. As the team further progresses, you can communicate the first 2 bullet points and the team will figure out what to do and how to do it. Finally, with high performing teams/individuals, you can provide context and the goal, and the team defines the rest.

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Jira Issue Create Bookmarklet

This bookmarklet lets you pop the Jira "Create Issue" dialog with values pre-populated. You have to be on a Jira page for this to work.

Create a new Bookmark in Chrome:

Bookmark name: “whatever”

URL:

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# Example Jira GraphQL API to fetch a Cloud ID, query for issues with JQL, and get issues with links, i.e. child issues
#
# Run this in https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/atlassian-graphql-api/graphql/explorer/
#
# In the GraphQL explorer UI, at the bottom, add these Request Headers:
# {
#   "X-ExperimentalApi" : "JiraIssueSearch"
# }
#
query fetchCloudId {

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// Given an element, select a range of text given a start and end character position offset relative
// to the element's innerText, not counting any HTML markup in the element.

// Partial credit: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16662393/insert-html-into-text-node-with-javascript
function injectMarkerIntoTextNode(node, startIndex) {
	// startIndex is beginning location of the text to inject a span
  let parentNode = node.parentNode;
  
  var s = node.nodeValue;
  var beforePart = s.substring(0, startIndex);

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How to set the default title of a new note in Obsidian

I wanted to set the default title of new notes created via Cmd+N to be formatted like "2023-05-18 New", "2023-05-18 New 2", ...

I also wanted all new notes created via Cmd+N to go in the new folder.

1. Create a folder called e.g. new

2. In "Files & Links" settings, set "Folder to create new notes in" to new

3. Create a folder called e.g. templates and add a file called e.g. Default with this content:

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// Adds a "Page Results" button to a Blazer query and buttons to export (copy or download) results as JSON or CSV.
//
// To use this, open a Blazer query on the "Edit" page, open Chrome Dev Tools, paste all this code and hit Enter.
//
// When paging, the Blazer query must contain an expression like this that can be used to cursor through results:
//
// WHERE product.order_id >= 0 ORDER BY product.order_id LIMIT 100
// or:
// WHERE agreements.id >= '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' ORDER BY agreements.id LIMIT 100
//

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Growth versus Productivity

When you're growing, you're not producing as much. When you're producing a lot, you're probably not learning as much. Invest in growth to expand the breadth and depth of what you can produce.

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My expectations for Slack response times

I'm an engineering manager. For engineers, context switching to check Slack is extremely expensive. I aim to minimize that expense!

I have very low expectations for quick response times on Slack. On the contrary, it puts my mind at ease when folks don't always respond immediately on Slack. Take time to craft a meaningful response. Stay focused on your own tasks or meetings, and respond only after you have a moment.

Slack is an asynchronous medium. I generally expect folks will respond to Slack messages at some point during the day, when they can.

99.999% of my Slack messages are not urgent, even when I use @ mentions.

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Character sheet

We filled out character sheets at Elastic as a team building exercise. I wrote this in 2022. I figured I'd work in the open and share it with the world.

What is your name? Preferred name?

Richard Kuzsma. Last name is pronounced "Kooz-mah".

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Unit test Exalate sync scripts with Groovy and Spock

Exalate lets you synchronize GitHub and Jira issues by writing sync scripts in Groovy. You can use Groovy to unit test sync scripts to give you quality assurances before applying changes to your production instance.

This article explains how to use Groovy and the Spock testing framework to test the sync scripts. The tests work by creating a GroovyShell with mocked variables for the Exalate environment. The GroovyShell then loads the sync script and runs it with Jira and GitHub data from the supplied test case.

This project uses the Spock framework for unit testing.

Create a project to hold your groovy sync scripts and test code.