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Thursday, April 9, 2026

JT Houk
Published April 9, 2026
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Projects

LRX-31809, the sortable column headers for Sales History (PR #15185), is finally merged. Getting design feedback on the overflow payment types behavior before closing it out was the right call, and it shipped cleaner for it. Three decimal currency support keeps coming up as a theme this week, and it surfaced again today while reviewing Leo's work on LRX-37461 (PR #1891), which fixes a sale total calculation precision mismatch with MySQL. I raised a concern there specifically around currencies like Bahraini Dinar that use three decimal places. It is the kind of edge case that looks fine until a merchant in the Gulf tries to reconcile their books.

From yesterday's QA session, I created LRX-37483 to track the bug fixes for the sale total filter and product search issues we uncovered, and started planning the implementation. I also reviewed three of Vicky's PRs to remove feature flags for line item consolidation and splitting. FF removal PRs can feel like housekeeping, but they are worth reading carefully since anything that has been sitting behind a flag for a while tends to accumulate assumptions.

Team

There has been a sudden uptick in review requests from teammates, which is a good sign that things are moving. On the onboarding front, I need to go through the incident management onboarding slides and schedule a session with Kapil to record it together.

Performance Review

The clearest area to work on is incident prevention and testing. The feedback points toward more TDD and more RFCs, both of which force you to validate your assumptions before they become production surprises. There is also a note about proactivity: spotting an issue or improvement, writing a small RFC or proof of concept, and driving it forward rather than waiting for it to land on a sprint. Validating design assumptions earlier falls into the same bucket. Good signal overall, and specific enough to act on.

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