[withinboredom]

I worked on a team with two other engineers. I was in the EU, one was in Australia, and one on the west coast of the US.

We had very, very little overlap to have meetings (unless one of us wanted to wake up early or have a late night meeting, which happened a few times). We did everything async, even meetings and decisions.

The best part would be learning how to open a WIP PR, with enough detail that someone else could understand what you were going to do. You'd wake up in the morning to find a team member had contributed to your PR, either by fixing nits (we didn't have time to go back-and-forth on shenanigans or it would take weeks just to merge a single PR), or by actually implementing some idea they had. So, if you didn't like it, you'd just remove that commit from your PR.

It was fun, but it takes a lot of trust!

[jiggawatts]

I had the "timezone thing" with a colleague in the same city because he had some weird sleep disorder. Basically, he was a vampire. Asleep during the day, working all night.

It was awesome. I'd turn up to the customer site to collect their issues and requests, do some investigation, formulate the precise requirements, and send it off to him.

The next morning, magically, things would be done.