Meeting Title: Brainforge Onboarding Process and Git Issues Date: 2026-03-13 Meeting participants: Brylle Girang, Kaela Gallagher
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1 00:02:12.820 ⇒ 00:02:14.749 Kaela Gallagher: Hey, B, how’s it going?
2 00:02:18.440 ⇒ 00:02:19.560 Brylle Girang: How are you doing?
3 00:02:20.360 ⇒ 00:02:22.640 Kaela Gallagher: Great, how are you?
4 00:02:23.070 ⇒ 00:02:24.670 Brylle Girang: Happy Friday!
5 00:02:24.670 ⇒ 00:02:28.080 Kaela Gallagher: Happy Friday. Any fun plans for the weekend?
6 00:02:28.580 ⇒ 00:02:38.190 Brylle Girang: No, I’m just gonna rest, and I am actually trying to vibe code my own budget trucker, so I…
7 00:02:38.190 ⇒ 00:02:38.840 Kaela Gallagher: I’ve…
8 00:02:38.840 ⇒ 00:02:42.570 Brylle Girang: Using YNAB. Have you heard… have you heard of that? You need a budget?
9 00:02:43.410 ⇒ 00:02:44.520 Kaela Gallagher: No.
10 00:02:44.780 ⇒ 00:02:49.550 Brylle Girang: Yeah, so it’s an app, it’s a web app that I am paying.
11 00:02:49.670 ⇒ 00:02:50.820 Brylle Girang: Annually.
12 00:02:51.650 ⇒ 00:02:52.370 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
13 00:02:52.710 ⇒ 00:02:58.990 Brylle Girang: I just think I want to save, like, $20, and then build my own instead.
14 00:02:58.990 ⇒ 00:03:10.250 Kaela Gallagher: You build it yourself. Oh my gosh, I love that. Okay, wow, I’m, like, really into, like, personal finances and budgeting and all that stuff, so I use an app called…
15 00:03:10.780 ⇒ 00:03:12.290 Kaela Gallagher: Empower.
16 00:03:12.750 ⇒ 00:03:16.680 Kaela Gallagher: And it tracks all my budgets and my net worth and stuff, and it’s free.
17 00:03:16.970 ⇒ 00:03:22.499 Kaela Gallagher: But… I’d be really curious to see what yours looks like, that’s really cool.
18 00:03:22.830 ⇒ 00:03:34.310 Brylle Girang: I am looking at this right now. Okay, so YNAB uses the envelope budgeting method, and this principle that you can’t assign whatever you don’t have.
19 00:03:34.750 ⇒ 00:03:47.619 Brylle Girang: And that works for me. So you can’t, like, plan one month ahead, because if you don’t have the money yet, so that’s kind of the mindset there. So it really punishes you when you’re like.
20 00:03:48.170 ⇒ 00:03:56.759 Brylle Girang: try to spend something that you haven’t assigned something on. You should check it out. I’m going to share the site.
21 00:03:56.760 ⇒ 00:03:57.700 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
22 00:03:58.700 ⇒ 00:04:02.559 Kaela Gallagher: It’s called envelope Budget Method. I’m writing that down.
23 00:04:02.930 ⇒ 00:04:04.229 Brylle Girang: Yeah, envelope.
24 00:04:04.760 ⇒ 00:04:05.640 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
25 00:04:06.110 ⇒ 00:04:07.860 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, cool!
26 00:04:08.330 ⇒ 00:04:16.109 Brylle Girang: Fair. I have been using this for 3 years, and I really wish that I knew about this when I was still a student.
27 00:04:18.050 ⇒ 00:04:19.070 Brylle Girang: Right.
28 00:04:19.079 ⇒ 00:04:24.129 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. I’ll look into that. Thanks for sharing it.
29 00:04:24.640 ⇒ 00:04:29.459 Brylle Girang: Sure, alright, let’s go to your cursor. So, I dive…
30 00:04:29.460 ⇒ 00:04:33.099 Kaela Gallagher: A little deeper into this earlier, and it turns out that.
31 00:04:33.580 ⇒ 00:04:41.179 Brylle Girang: Windows is a bit finicky when it comes to Git, and that might have been the main issue here.
32 00:04:42.040 ⇒ 00:04:45.819 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, so here’s my cursor and my Git.
33 00:04:46.370 ⇒ 00:04:55.420 Brylle Girang: Okay, gotcha. Alright, can you try, like, okay, so let’s try this one. Can you click clone repo?
34 00:04:57.170 ⇒ 00:04:59.710 Brylle Girang: And then just add the URL there.
35 00:05:01.610 ⇒ 00:05:03.919 Kaela Gallagher: Which URL?
36 00:05:04.510 ⇒ 00:05:06.320 Brylle Girang: Let me send it over.
37 00:05:13.700 ⇒ 00:05:14.780 Brylle Girang: Here you go.
38 00:05:15.420 ⇒ 00:05:16.590 Kaela Gallagher: Thank you.
39 00:05:19.780 ⇒ 00:05:26.340 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, so clone… there… Yeah. Okay, I think I just tried this.
40 00:05:26.750 ⇒ 00:05:33.420 Brylle Girang: Yeah, so this time, we’re going to change things a bit here. Save the… save the folder in your desktop.
41 00:05:34.260 ⇒ 00:05:35.589 Brylle Girang: Can you choose desktop?
42 00:05:35.810 ⇒ 00:05:38.579 Brylle Girang: There. And then, yeah, just select.
43 00:05:41.820 ⇒ 00:05:47.250 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, because last time I did try to put it in the GitHub folder, and then it gave me that error.
44 00:05:47.850 ⇒ 00:06:02.679 Brylle Girang: Yeah, I have been reading a bit, and then it turns out that… I really hope that this does work, because some are saying that the problem is because of the Git files conflicting with the files inside Windows folders.
45 00:06:03.100 ⇒ 00:06:06.050 Brylle Girang: So, since desktop is, like, the most…
46 00:06:06.540 ⇒ 00:06:11.580 Brylle Girang: how do you call it? Insensitive location? Let’s see if it works there.
47 00:06:13.770 ⇒ 00:06:22.359 Brylle Girang: While we’re waiting for that, you’re also the one, like, focusing on… On onboarding, right?
48 00:06:23.020 ⇒ 00:06:23.540 Kaela Gallagher: Yes.
49 00:06:23.760 ⇒ 00:06:26.180 Brylle Girang: You’re the lead when it comes to culture, etc.
50 00:06:26.570 ⇒ 00:06:27.600 Kaela Gallagher: Yes. So…
51 00:06:27.730 ⇒ 00:06:28.690 Brylle Girang: I am.
52 00:06:28.830 ⇒ 00:06:37.570 Brylle Girang: Trying to build… A cursor, curriculum… And…
53 00:06:37.740 ⇒ 00:06:43.450 Brylle Girang: a thought came to my mind when it comes to, like, the onboarding process, because I think we don’t have…
54 00:06:43.450 ⇒ 00:06:48.220 Kaela Gallagher: So… Sorry, one second, you cut out. You said you’re trying to build a what?
55 00:06:48.720 ⇒ 00:07:01.240 Brylle Girang: a cursor curriculum, so it’s like a detailed session about cursor. So you can see it here. It’s just, I just created this using cursor, and then there are steps here that I…
56 00:07:01.560 ⇒ 00:07:06.290 Brylle Girang: Think could… could halt new, new, new users, right?
57 00:07:06.420 ⇒ 00:07:07.150 Brylle Girang: New people.
58 00:07:07.150 ⇒ 00:07:07.740 Kaela Gallagher: Yes, yeah.
59 00:07:09.700 ⇒ 00:07:15.560 Brylle Girang: And I also added, like, videos here where I’m, like, going through the cursor setup.
60 00:07:15.790 ⇒ 00:07:16.970 Brylle Girang: Asynchronously, so…
61 00:07:16.970 ⇒ 00:07:17.730 Kaela Gallagher: Yay!
62 00:07:18.150 ⇒ 00:07:24.049 Brylle Girang: We don’t need to meet with anyone else. My question is, are you, like.
63 00:07:24.500 ⇒ 00:07:29.889 Brylle Girang: Also, in the process of, like, building an onboarding packet, or something like that.
64 00:07:30.590 ⇒ 00:07:39.269 Kaela Gallagher: Yes, I can share with you what I have right now. So, I have this… Onboarding process here.
65 00:07:39.780 ⇒ 00:07:41.190 Kaela Gallagher: And…
66 00:07:41.620 ⇒ 00:07:53.579 Kaela Gallagher: So, it has a plan for, like, what we need to do on the PeopleOps side, what the hiring manager needs to do, and then what the new hire will do.
67 00:07:53.850 ⇒ 00:08:00.510 Kaela Gallagher: So… This is kind of, like, on the backend side of things, and then this is…
68 00:08:01.330 ⇒ 00:08:05.590 Kaela Gallagher: Our candidate-facing onboard guide.
69 00:08:06.150 ⇒ 00:08:07.400 Kaela Gallagher: So…
70 00:08:07.560 ⇒ 00:08:17.610 Kaela Gallagher: It’s like, oh, this is what you should do on your first day, this is what you should do on your second, and so we could add it in here, that they should be completing that cursor training.
71 00:08:18.290 ⇒ 00:08:20.709 Brylle Girang: Yeah, that’s going to be amazing.
72 00:08:20.930 ⇒ 00:08:26.089 Brylle Girang: Or if you want, maybe, you know, we can work together, because I’m planning to…
73 00:08:26.750 ⇒ 00:08:41.229 Brylle Girang: build this into our platform. So, at first, when people come in, they are immediately, like, exposed to our Brainforge platform, so the goal is that this cursor curriculum will live somewhere around here.
74 00:08:42.159 ⇒ 00:08:50.579 Brylle Girang: Okay. Maybe let’s park that one. It’s not going to be, like, this week or next week, but I just wanted to get that off the plate as soon as possible.
75 00:08:51.080 ⇒ 00:08:53.529 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, that sounds great, and
76 00:08:55.010 ⇒ 00:09:14.440 Kaela Gallagher: I can send you that link to the onboarding guide, so feel free to, like, leave comments, or, once you have that completed, like, we can adjust it and everything. We are going to have somebody start next week, and right now, my plan was to have all of our new hires, like, connect with you in the beginning.
77 00:09:14.500 ⇒ 00:09:20.079 Kaela Gallagher: So I’ll still get time on calendar with you and that new hire for now.
78 00:09:20.220 ⇒ 00:09:25.879 Brylle Girang: Yeah, yeah, yes, please. Is that, is that, Advait? I don’t know the… Okay, perfect.
79 00:09:25.880 ⇒ 00:09:26.910 Kaela Gallagher: That’d be, yeah.
80 00:09:26.910 ⇒ 00:09:31.990 Brylle Girang: Alright, okay, so it… okay, can you just click cancel?
81 00:09:32.830 ⇒ 00:09:36.740 Kaela Gallagher: Okay. And then, let’s see, let’s try opening the project again.
82 00:09:37.210 ⇒ 00:09:37.960 Kaela Gallagher: This one?
83 00:09:38.760 ⇒ 00:09:41.800 Brylle Girang: The, the first, the first, like… there we go.
84 00:09:42.790 ⇒ 00:09:47.179 Brylle Girang: And then go to desktop, where we saved the new repo.
85 00:09:47.880 ⇒ 00:09:50.219 Brylle Girang: Alrighty, let’s go.
86 00:09:57.260 ⇒ 00:10:04.740 Brylle Girang: Okay, then in the rightmost side, you can see some icons at the top. Can you click the third icon?
87 00:10:04.940 ⇒ 00:10:08.799 Brylle Girang: a level, but there we go. Yep.
88 00:10:11.190 ⇒ 00:10:13.300 Brylle Girang: Okay, let’s wait for it.
89 00:10:22.680 ⇒ 00:10:24.619 Brylle Girang: Can you click the first icon again?
90 00:10:26.670 ⇒ 00:10:27.690 Brylle Girang: Okay.
91 00:10:28.950 ⇒ 00:10:35.110 Brylle Girang: So it looks like… can you click, vault.
92 00:10:37.480 ⇒ 00:10:39.110 Brylle Girang: It’s… there we go.
93 00:10:39.270 ⇒ 00:10:41.410 Brylle Girang: Oh, I can add annotation, sorry.
94 00:10:42.300 ⇒ 00:10:43.020 Kaela Gallagher: That’s okay.
95 00:10:45.750 ⇒ 00:10:50.110 Brylle Girang: It looks like it’s… now working?
96 00:10:50.600 ⇒ 00:10:52.690 Brylle Girang: Can you click this icon again?
97 00:11:21.660 ⇒ 00:11:28.349 Brylle Girang: Okay, I don’t know why it’s taking that long, but in the meantime, can you go to, like, GitHub Desktop, and then…
98 00:11:29.450 ⇒ 00:11:31.769 Brylle Girang: Let’s just click Remove.
99 00:11:36.940 ⇒ 00:11:40.120 Brylle Girang: Okay… King.
100 00:11:41.400 ⇒ 00:11:44.160 Brylle Girang: Can you… can you close that… that sidebar?
101 00:11:47.220 ⇒ 00:11:49.209 Brylle Girang: Oh, is that a close eye? Oh, no.
102 00:11:49.910 ⇒ 00:11:51.030 Brylle Girang: Hmm.
103 00:11:53.010 ⇒ 00:11:55.419 Brylle Girang: Okay, click this again, the repository.
104 00:11:58.500 ⇒ 00:12:00.499 Brylle Girang: And then, let’s click Add.
105 00:12:03.370 ⇒ 00:12:05.370 Brylle Girang: And then, add existing.
106 00:12:08.240 ⇒ 00:12:10.500 Brylle Girang: Yeah, choose, and then desktop.
107 00:12:12.760 ⇒ 00:12:14.800 Brylle Girang: There we go. Folder.
108 00:12:18.100 ⇒ 00:12:23.259 Brylle Girang: Add repository… Oh, no, it’s still… okay.
109 00:12:27.490 ⇒ 00:12:29.040 Brylle Girang: What’s wrong?
110 00:12:30.910 ⇒ 00:12:32.280 Brylle Girang: Just a moment.
111 00:13:29.820 ⇒ 00:13:30.620 Brylle Girang: Hmm.
112 00:14:02.110 ⇒ 00:14:04.990 Brylle Girang: Okay, let me try and ask Rico about this.
113 00:14:06.380 ⇒ 00:14:07.120 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
114 00:14:07.380 ⇒ 00:14:09.940 Brylle Girang: I think there’s something wrong with your GitHub account.
115 00:14:12.390 ⇒ 00:14:13.130 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
116 00:14:23.180 ⇒ 00:14:27.799 Kaela Gallagher: Should we… Do you want to chat later?
117 00:14:29.850 ⇒ 00:14:35.490 Brylle Girang: This might be quick, but yeah, I think I can just Slack you, if ever. Would that work?
118 00:14:36.050 ⇒ 00:14:36.690 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
119 00:14:36.950 ⇒ 00:14:38.450 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, that’s fine.
120 00:14:38.870 ⇒ 00:14:42.789 Brylle Girang: Thank you so much, Gil. I’m really sorry this is happening. Let’s fix this.
121 00:14:42.790 ⇒ 00:14:45.770 Kaela Gallagher: We’ll get it figured out! Thank you so much for your help.
122 00:14:45.910 ⇒ 00:14:47.480 Brylle Girang: Thank you, bye-bye. Later.