#Backlog Advent Calendar

[betweenheroesandvillains]

“this port wine pairs great with rich dark chocolate” yeah and my advent calendar choc pairs great with my beer, what’s the point

[greatbigbellies]

I hope you like huge pregnant guts cause that's all I got.

Hi! Welcome to my kink blog! Before we go any further, if you’re below 18, leave! No exceptions. You know why. Please just wait until you’re of age, then you can gladly peruse.

I’m a 27 year old trans woman who really, really enjoys bellies. I have a fairly strong preference for pregnancy related stuff, which is the overwhelming majority of what you’ll find on this blog, but I enjoy pretty much any other kind (LOVE stuffing, enjoy vore and wg, and even non-enlarged tummies too)! I try to keep a decently regular queue rolling with reblogs from kink artists, models, and the like, and I thoroughly enjoy getting asks, so don’t be afraid to send some in! I can’t always tend to this blog daily because of real life, so if the queue runs out or I don’t answer an ask same day, I’ll be back soon!

DMs are open but I don’t RP privately, or explicitly, and “hi” or “hey” will get a similarly brief response. I love talking pregnancy kink stuff but please remember I’m a person, and I’m not horny 100% of the time, so it’s okay to talk about other things. Unironically, send me a screenshot of a minecraft build you’re proud of, I’d genuinely love to see it.

That all said, please enjoy the blog! I have an expansive backlog of posts that I’ve taken effort to keep correctly tagged for easy access. If you just want to see tummies, block the “not bellies” tag. I’ve done some kinky voice work too, which you can find under the “kink audio” tag.

Some larger pregnancy kink projects I’ve worked on that you might enjoy are:

The McPreggo Menu (link to the most current version because yes, it gets updated occasionally) A fast food menu with pregnancy inducing effects, with dozens of items each with unique properties. Perfect if you like your preg kink with a side of stuffing and math!

The 2023 Pregnancy Kink Advent Calendar (link to masterpost with more links) A holiday project I ran in December of last year, featuring 24 posts with writing, audio, pictures, and a video, all of fun little pregnant treats to enjoy! Looking to do another in 2024, so if you like what you see and want to contribute, please reach out!

@obscenely-overdue (link to the blog itself) An RP side blog where I put on a fake bump and pretend to be super pregnant! It's not super story driven, nor does it adhere to a strict "canon timeline", so you can just assume I'm permanently full term, for fun and profit!

[ladykailitha]

December Schedule

Hello! So it is that lovely time of year again when it starts to get colder and people start putting out Christmas decorations. And I write Christmas fics.

I wasn't sure I was going to do one, but Dragon Slayer is getting to the point where I can't share what I'm writing (it's VERY spoiler-y), so because I don't like only having three stories on WIP Wednesday, I am doing a couple of different things.

The first is cutting back to the usual four days a week posting schedule. This almost daily has been stressful for me, but I had so much backlogged, it needed to be rushed out in a gush for a bit and then back to it's normal flow.

Then next week, Of Butterflies and Backstrokes will release the rest of its story on Sunday, Monday and Friday with Caged Bird as usual on Saturday so that all my completed works will be out before Dec.

The reason for this is because I am planning two holiday events for you.

The first is the (fingers crossed) eight part Christmas long fic (name to be decided): Steve Harrington hates Christmas. Well, maybe hate is too strong a word. All his life it's been nothing but fake everything; even the smiles. Well, all except the tree. That's always real. This year, his dad's company is going the 'rent-a-tree' route and needs three of them for the office. There he meets Eddie, who with the little help of the Party and the magic of Christmas, teaches Steve what Christmas really means.

I will start posting it on December 1st. Then depending on how many chapters it takes, I'll either double up, releasing two a week or I will come up with some other schedule taking into account how many there are.

Then on the 11th, a special Twelve AUs of Christmas snippet. You'll send in a number between 1-12 and I'll write a little bit from an AU list that I want to do Christmas stories for but don't have ideas for full fics.

Plus, I have some trouble doing the whole short thing. So the goal is no more than 1500 words per AU. And if the number you ask for is completed, then I pick a different one. Then from the 12th to the 24th, I will release a Christmas snippet like an Advent calendar.

There will be no WIP Wednesday on the 25th due to it being Christmas day, but I will be back on 1st to spread some more holiday cheer.

As for the other stories Spellbound (Himbo Witch) and Dragon Slayer will alternate on Mondays, with The Au Pair Boy (Nanny) on Fridays, and Caged Bird on Saturdays as per usual.

Then when December is over with, Dragon Slayer will move the Sunday slot.

Happy Holidays everyone!!!

[mothyandthesquid]

Just a little reminder that there were two days of postal strikes last week. You can read about it in the press or the Royal Mail website if you have any doubts as to the veracity of this statement. I’m a bit overwhelmed by the number of emails asking me why yarn ordered last week hasn’t arrived yet so if I haven’t responded to yours please accept my apologies. Sadly this is an inevitable outcome of national industrial action that is completely beyond my personal control. You are not the only one inconvenienced by this I promise, and you can imagine how high my stress levels are given that most of them are Advent Calendars (all bought after the cutoff date in the listing for guaranteed arrival but that doesn’t mean folk will be understanding). I really could cry as I was so happy they all sold but now it’s turned into a bit of a nightmare. Please be patient with the Royal Mail and all the posties out there who are working incredibly hard to clear the backlog whilst losing previous pay when they can least afford it. At the delivery office today, they looked more stressed than I have ever seen them and I have seen a lot of stressed postal workers in my time. Please also plan ahead if you want any yarn for Christmas this year. Thank you for your thoughtfulness and consideration. (at Mothy and the Squid) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClhKHSqqjmE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[techforevil-er]

12/12-18/12/2022

Bleh week at work. Decent week outside with highlights of chocolate, cheese, and gaming. 💀

This week was less fun and more filled with meetings than I'd care for. Including at least two that started with 'do you have 5 minutes' and lasted for over an hour. I get that people are trying to cram stuff in before they leave on 19th and before the year end but... mercy. I'm still burnt out from 2020. 😭

I'm swinging wildly from being quite pleased about what I've done with Team 2 to being depressed about how underbaked some of the processes are, how messy the backlog is, and so on. Fortunately the new PM is helping now and my mantra of reducing WIP may actually get somewhere, and they will have a new DM joining just before the day in the office. \o/

On the bright side I made some notes from User Research for Team 1 and heard pop-up research results from the side project which has now finished. We also have an emerging solid plan for Team 1's work in the first Q and some ideas for making our programme check-ins different and more effective.

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The unexpected snow that paralysed UK transport as usual got in the way of a nice dinner with a friend. I still managed to join the

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If I ever find the strength to be a Lead or in the position to influence org-level roadmaps again (Doubt.) this is definitely something I'd like to try:

It seems so obivous now that I've seen it, I am bewildered why anyone bothered with the Gantt-y spreadsheet lines. 🤯

It might go well along Vaugh Tan's Boris framework as well, just to make sure the things NOT being done are super visible? https://vaughntan.org/unpacking-boris

This is a good vid:

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The unexpected snow that paralysed UK transport as usual got in the way of a nice dinner with a friend. I still managed to join the chocolate tasting group this month (we did bars originating from Tanzania) and use words like 'coarse', 'sour cherry', 'fruity but without a sour note at the end, a bit like apricot or banana' and hear other people describe stuff as 'the bin', 'sick', 'horrigyingly cloying'. One of the most pressured environments I've ever been in for sure. 😂 The chocolate in those sessions ranges between 70-85% so they day after in a bout of foolhardiness I went for a 100% hot choc at Knoops* and instead of something inexplicably disgusting I got a cup of hot, watery disappointment.

I failed miserably on the cheese advent calendar/cheese tasting front and mixed all my wonderful cheeses together to create (in all fairness pretty amazing) pasta cheese bakes. Farewell pre/post make model, we hardly knew ye. :'(

*I try to use Duck Duck Go more but even with string 'hot chocolate new row' and 'hot chocolate new row covent garden' this place was unfindable and I had to go with Google again. Sorry that I'm addicted to convenience I guess. -\(-__-)/-

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Puppet History made me cry.

I lost several more hours in Hades - it's way too easy to do just another run.

And of course I'm playing Witcher 3 again. I forgot just HOW MUCH empty space to run across there is in it. The writing remains gut-wrenching and I already found two new quests so overall I am having a very good time tho.

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NEXT WEEK

I feel like I've not watched a genuinely good film in ages. Maybe I'll try to change that. Maybe I'll just play games I've played before for 100 hours. 🙄

I might get started on a year-end personal retrospective and a personal plan. I've been asking the people I coach about theirs so it's only fair, right?

Booking things for the Interrail trip PROPERLY. Not just 2 days in Netherlands and then losing the will to live because of too many options and general anxiety. orz

[heartsbreaking-migrated]

not to be the sexiest self promoting bitch on the plant

but happy holidays, the resources advent calendar is here!

and by that i mean i have my entire backlog of icons i had done but not posted queued and it's running up until christmas.

go follow my rph for semi-surprise icon packs for the next week!

@argentangelhelps !!

[tigerdrop]

hiiii hi so i have finally finished uploading......Everything. every piece of art from my backlog is now viewable on my website! including the full-sized versions of the previews shown here. please clap

(also, any new pics i post should be visible directly from the front page! so in the future u wont have to reload every single pic in my image gallery just to see whats new. i got u babe)

ALSO also: i have revamped my kinktober 2020 page in preparation for the coming days. now its like a cute lil advent calendar but for gordon freemans pud instead of chocolates or whatever

[nicest-interiors]

I won’t be sitting here today as I am so behind with everything (including no advent calendars for the kids and a huge backlog of emails to reply to!) But despite the rain I need to get out of the house and get some fresh air! Xmas decs are slowly creeping in... #myrustic #livingroominspo #livingroomdecor #livingspace #bohemianliving #modernrustic #howivintage #bohemiandecor

[oneweekobsession]

alright i took my eye off the ball for just a moment and now i’m like four days behind on my advent calendar

[greatbigbellies]

2023 PREGNANCY KINK ADVENT CALENDAR (DAY 2)

Secret Surrogate: 1st Trimester.

So, my counselor advised I take up journaling, so I’m giving it a shot here. She says it’ll help me get my thoughts and experiences down so I don’t linger on them so much. She’s the expert so, here we go I guess.

I suppose I’ll just get into it, since I have something really exciting but also really stressful going on. I’m surrogating for my best friend! She and her husband (lovely guy!) have wanted kids for a while now, but unfortunately my friend has some health issues that make carrying a pregnancy very unsafe for her. We talked, and made a lot of plans, and contacted the appropriate agencies and everything is above board and got greenlit!

The fertilized egg took without an issue, and now I’m proudly 11 weeks pregnant as of this writing! I’m really excited just thinking about it, helping my friend with the family she’s wanted since we met, and of course I get the proud title of god parent after the baby is born!

That also, though, kind of brings me to my trouble and stress surrounding the situation. I work a good job, part of a huge office complex, many coworkers, most of whom I am neutral toward, if I don’t like them outright. That said… there is a penchant for gossip to spread quickly, and some of the folks vying for promotions can be… very judgy.

Why am I beating around the bush? This is a journal for crying out loud. I have a coworker who recently had a baby, she’s the sweetest woman, slightly younger then me. Unfortunately, it was pretty common knowledge that she was, and still is, single. And so, when she started showing, some pretty negative opinions of her started circulating. A lot of water cooler chat about how she was “easy” and “must have gotten around a lot”, really hurtful stuff. What was really insidious was how no one actually told her that these rumors were going around until I said something, and by then it has been months, and I assumed she already knew… I felt really bad (that was a very awkward brunch…), and if I’d known I would have told her much sooner. 

The problem was so widespread that if HR were to have reprimanded the people who engaged with it, they would have been dolling out punishments for nearly two whole departments. Frankly I think they should have, but I’m all too aware that the bureaucracy machines moves too slowly to catch them all. My coworker is on maternity leave now, seems to be doing well, I check up on her when I can. With everything that happened, I’m not sure if she truly intends to come back, or if she’s just juicing them for that leave PTO. I’d miss her if she left but wouldn’t blame her in the slightest.

But now, here I am, surrogating for my friend, and I know I’ve told a few coworkers that I’m not seeing anyone… I’m worried it’ll hit me too. I could obviously just tell them the truth but I’m not sure if they would believe me. Some of them are so eager to judge… I’m not very tall either, 5’2”, so I’m going to show and probably get pretty big. Thankfully, I have one hail mary pass.

The company has been talking about renovating the office building we work out of for years now. We’re talking big, sweeping overhauls to almost every floor. Obviously they can’t just have people NOT work and they’re trying to avoid layoffs as much as possible, so the plan for when that hits is to have everyone work form home! By some miracle, the renovations start right as I’m about to hit 20 weeks, and are so massive that they plan to take almost 5 months! So my plan is to basically dress loosely to hide… well, everything, and use my backlog of paid time off as a form of parental leave to recover after giving birth. I can frame the PTO use as a vacation, bounce back, and return to work slim, trim, and NOT pregnant, my best friend gets her baby, and no one is the wiser!

The big reason I’m bending over so far backwards for this is, one of the most vocally judgy people from the incident with my coworker also happens to be the one who works the position above mine that I really, really want. Apparently they intend to work through the holidays next year to reap the christmas bonus and then retire, and they get to name their successor. They aren’t the most kind, and I wouldn’t put it past them to cast aspersions on my character and select someone else for that job based on my perceived “bastard pregnancy”. They’re a jerk, but they’d get away with it. If I want that position, I need to keep it under wraps.

It sucks too, I like the attention pregnant people get. It’s supposed to be a special, positive thing, and it should be for me too. All my family and friends are very excited and proud, but it sucks my work life has to be so isolated from it. I’ll live, but as my pregnancy progresses, I suspect I’ll be venting a lot here.

I admittedly have some things to vent about it already. The morning sickness has been very unpleasant, and I’m experiencing a noticeable amount of bloating. You’re not supposed to need bigger clothes until later, right? My usual pants already feel tight. I’ve also been getting cravings, pretty intense ones. If things persist like this through the next 29 weeks, those poor guys down at the taco bell are going to get really sick of seeing me. But baby gets what baby wants… I just wish baby didn’t want dirt quality burritos.

Aside from that, I’m just attending regular doctor visits. Everything looks healthy, and I hope it stays that way! Fingers crossed I can hit full term and be induced before they call me back in for a meeting…

[redvsbluemicrofic]

Filthy Yorkalina Advent Calendar 2K18

It’s that time of year again!

It’s December and @lostlegendaerie and I are going through our extensive backlog of fic hanging in limbo, giving them a bit of a touch up and releasing them into the light of day! 

Most of these are going to be from an AU where York and Carolina escaped before/during the crash of the Mother of Invention and go on the run, eventually finding safety and settling down together out in the middle of fucking nowhere. 

First up is “Pulse” -- York playfully nudges Carolina’s blood kink button, and then is all surprised when it detonates.

We did say it was filthy.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16810021

[thelocalspace]

The dreaded shipping update post is coming your way this morning... Unfortunately many carriers have had to increase their pricing which means we have had to make some changes to our free shipping. We have had to increase our free shipping within B.C. on orders from $100 to $125 and for the rest of Canada from $150 to $199. Moving forward we also are unable to offer free shipping on the following items (some of these items never qualified for free shipping so it might just be a refresher): Advent Calendars, Subscription Boxes, Local Boxes, Gift Boxes and Cookie Jars. If you qualify for free shipping it’ll automatically appear at checkout. As we continue to get closer and closer to the holidays I do want to remind everyone that they should expect shipping delays - not just with us, but all businesses. We are still shipping out every day and we’re trying to ship as much as we can with CanPar since Canada Post is already getting backlogged. If your package is delayed, or the tracking isn’t updating (some of you check your tracking like three times a day 🤣), please remember we can’t see much more than you can, you should be prepared for this to happen with many orders this holiday season - not just us. Currently most orders do seem to be arriving within 3-5 days (and yes, we still get complaints 😅), but I imagine this year closer to it could be more like 7-10+ days. If it goes beyond this, then contact us, but more than likely if you email us before that our response will be “many carriers are very delayed right now”, it’s not because we’re annoyed that you’re asking but because that is literally the answer. If you are sending a Christmas package to someone, I would recommend ordering by December 5th, but earlier the better. I will also say, many of our amazing brands and makers are having issues getting supplies needed to make their items so we may sell out of some items earlier than usual without being able to restock. Just keep that in mind if you have your eye on something for someone ☺️ Last but not least: Be kind when shopping this holiday season. It’s hard and confusing for everyone. — view on Instagram https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/125127502_405214577376943_295158235241459923_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=2&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=6lE8C7fl7m4AX9gJrYw&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&oh=aea706561e153b9807a8bf816186db18&oe=5FD4F4C6

[awsexchage]

furikake-serverless を作った 〜 今夜は炊き込みご飯なので furikake は要らない 〜 https://ift.tt/2zZQmWY

これは

tl;dr

furikake-serverless チュートリアル — 必要なもの (準備しておくもの) — セットアップ 　　—– sam で利用する S3 バケットを作成する 　　—– git clone 　　—– event.json の修正 　　—– sam の template.yml の生成 　　—– デプロイ — しばらく放置しておくと

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これは

集え、初老丸達よ。初老丸達による世界に向けた技術的（又はそれに関連する）な物語を綴るカレンダーです。我こそ初老丸という方、初老丸予備軍の方も奮ってご参加下さい。ジーク・初老丸！ 初老丸 Advent Calendar 2018 - Qiita - Qiita

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初老丸 Advent Calendar 2018 第 13 日目の記事になる予定です.

tl;dr

AWS Lambda のランタイムとして Ruby がサポートされました. 待ちに待っていた方, もう待ちくたびれた方, 悲喜こもごもだと思います.

This post is courtesy of Xiang Shen Senior – AWS Solutions Architect and Alex Wood Software Development Engineer – AWS SDKs and Tools Ruby remains a popular programming language for AWS customers. In the summer of 2011, AWS introduced the ini... Announcing Ruby Support for AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services - Amazon Web Services

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さて, 早速ではありますが, Lambda 上で動かしてみたいと思っていた furikake について, Lambda 上で実行出来るようにしてみましたので, ���介させていただきます.

furikake を AWS Lambda で実行出来るようにしました. Contribute to inokappa/furikake-serverless development by creating an account on GitHub. inokappa/furikake-serverless - GitHub

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ちなみに, furikake を Lambda で動かすのは単なる興味からだけではなく, 以下のようなメリットがあると考えている為です.

実行環境 (サーバーや個人端末) が不要

CloudWatch Events と組み合わせて定期実行することにより, Backlog Wiki 上の情報を新鮮に保つことが出来る

EC2 インスタンスのバックアップスクリプト等も Lambda を利用して取得していたりますので, ドキュメントについても同じように Lambda を利用して常に最新の状態に保つことが出来るのではと考えています. (同じようなアプローチで Fargate のスケジュールタスクを利用する方法もあると思いますが, そちらは別の機会に試してみたいと思います.)

furikake-serverless チュートリアル

必要なもの (準備しておくもの)

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-cli

docker と docker-compose

S3 バケット (sam で利用します)

KMS の Key ID

Backlog API キー

direnv も利用出来るようにしておくとより良いと思います.

セットアップ

sam で利用する S3 バケットを作成する

aws s3 mb s3://your-sam-s3-bucket

git clone

git clone https://github.com/inokappa/furikake-serverless.git

event.json の修正

event.sample.json を修正して event.json を作成します.

{ "resources": { "aws": [ "alb", "clb", "directory_service", "ec2", "elasticsearch_service", "kinesis", "lambda", "rds", "security_group", "vpc", "vpc_endpoint" ] }, "backlog": { "projects": [ { "space_id": "example", "top_level_domain": "jp", "wiki_id": "1234567", "wiki_name": "Lambda 送信テスト", "header": "# Test Header\n[toc]\n## Sub Header\n", "footer": "## Test Footer\n### Sub Footer" } ] } }

resources.aws 以下のリソース名を必要に応じて, space_id 等を環境に応じて修正します. これは furikake の .furikake.yml と同じ内容になっていて, 単に YAML か JSON の違いです.

sam の template.yml の生成

KMS を利用して Backlog の API キーを暗号化しますので, make template を実行して template.yaml を生成します.

$ make template

以下のように出力されるので, KMS の Key ID を API キー, 実行間隔 (任意なので, 何も指定しない場合には Enter を押下), タイムゾーン (任意なので, 何も指定しない場合には Enter を押下) を入力します.

$ make template KMS の Key ID を入力してください: xxxxxxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx API キーを入力してください: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 実行間隔を分で入力してください (デフォルト 60 分): タイムゾーンを入力してください (デフォルト Asia/Tokyo): template.yaml created.

上記のように出力されると, 正常に template.yaml が生成されていると思います. 念の為, template.yaml の中身を確認してみます.

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09' Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31 Description: 'furikake-serverless' Resources: FurikakeServerless: Type: AWS::Serverless::Function Properties: CodeUri: ./src Handler: lambda.run Runtime: ruby2.5 Timeout: 900 Policies: - ReadOnlyAccess - KMSDecryptPolicy: KeyId: xxxxxxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx Environment: Variables: ENCRYPTED_BACKLOG_API_KEY: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Events: FurikakeSchedule: Type: Schedule Properties: Schedule: rate(60 minutes) Input: '{ "resources": { "aws": [ "alb", ... Outputs: FurikakeServerless: Description: Serverless Furikake Lambda Function ARN. Value: Fn::GetAtt: - FurikakeServerless - Arn

CloudWatch Events で 60 分毎に Lambda 関数が起動するように設定されています.

... Events: FurikakeSchedule: Type: Schedule Properties: Schedule: rate(60 minutes) ...

Schedule: の値を修正することで任意の時間で Lambda 関数が起動するようにカスタマイズが可能です.

デプロイ

make package と make deploy を実行して, Lambda 関数をデプロイします.

# packaged-template.yaml を生成して, 各種ファイルを S3 にアップロードする make package _BUCKET_NAME=your-sam-s3-bucket

make package を実行した後, packaged-template.yaml が生成されていることを確認します.

# Lambda 関数をデプロイ make deploy

以下のように出力されることを確認します.

$ make deploy Waiting for changeset to be created.. Waiting for stack create/update to complete Successfully created/updated stack - FurikakeServerless

デプロイが完了したらしばらく待ちましょう…デフォルトで 1 時間後.

しばらく放置しておくと

下図のように, 定期的に wiki が更新されていることを確認することが出来ると思います.

いい感じです.

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いよいよ Ruby が Lamda 上で動くということで, furikake を Lambda で動かせるようにしてみました. まだ色々と課題はありそうですが, furikake を作ったモチベーションの一つである, ドキュメントの鮮度を常に最新に保つ, しかもお手軽に…がこれで叶ったような気がしています. また, 他にも Lambda で動かしてみたい gem があるので, 引き続き, 試行錯誤してみようかなと思います.

元記事はこちら

「furikake-serverless を作った 〜 今夜は炊き込みご飯なので furikake は要らない 〜」

December 18, 2018 at 02:00PM

[taman777]

オレたちの Backlog 案件の反省を残す

Backlog Advent Calendar 2019 寄稿記事です。

Backlogアドベントカレンダー 2019 はこちら

https://adventar.org/calendars/4080

すでに公開されている記事は大変すばらしいです！ぜひご覧ください。

…で、12月9日私の記事はこちらです。

Backlog の状態を「完了」にするとき

Backlog で管理するとき

プロジェクトの課題一つひとつを「完了」にしていくこと

それが、醍醐味！

そして、その中に「案件」「課題」の記憶を凝縮することでログを残していきます。

なにがあったか

どういう流れでやったらうまくいったか…

今回のやり方はちょっとキツかったとか…

次回はここの部分をもう少しこうしたいとか…

うれしかったこと

この案件でこうい…