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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small π
Examples of 'wins' include:
- Optimizing a database query that was slowing everything down
- Saying "no" to scope creep and meaning it
- Getting through code review without major changes requested
- Figuring our your halloween costume ahead of time π»
Happy Friday!
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Recovered from illness and getting back on track now.
I went to GitHub Universe in SF and met a lot of people IRL that I only knew online! It was super fun!
That's the best!
Finally turned one of my French blog posts about CTEs into a full English article!
Itβs more of a rewrite than a translation.
Planning to post it as a series on Dev.to starting Monday!
Awesome!
Finally completed my latest Intermediate level Frontend Mentor challenge in creating space tourism website. I'm currently in the process of completing another challenge for an e-commerce product page.
Feel free to check the source code of my space tourism page.
PS: in the process of learning Astro.js as well
I submited to #hacktoberfest π
I dunno how much of a "win" it is, but I was given more managerial responsibilities. My annual performance review was last week, so we had the annual "salary and roles" meeting yesterday.
The raise is nice, but I'm not thrilled about moving further from the "real" dev side of things...because at the end of the day, it's never been about the money for me. Dev work has always been the one thing that always just made sense for me, even when nothing else in my life did.
That said, I'm still getting my "hands dirty" in just about every project that passes through the department...I'm just not doing entire projects on my own at this point. It boils down more to handling things the juniors don't necessarily have the skills to handle on their own (but still trying to teach them along the way, so next time they don't have to ask).
Good luck figuring out if this is the right path.
Eh, I know it's the right path...30+ years of experience is wasted if all I'm doing is building WordPress themes all day. Can I? Sure, I spent 20 years doing that solo before I went back to agency work...is it the best use of my time? Not really.
And somebody's gotta herd the cats, so...might as well be me. It's weird to work in a company where the next oldest person (that isn't the guy who's name is on the wall) is only a year older than my entire career though...but it's fun constantly making the juniors question their life choices when I whiteboard a solution without needing google. π
Started using AI for learning to code. Article will be up this week!!
My win: I successfully bridged my custom C++ interpreter, jdBasic, with the libtorch C++ API! It's so cool to write PYTORCH.BACKWARD(Loss_Tensor) in my own BASIC script and see the correct gradients pop out :-)
Iβve just finished a really big and challenging task β unfortunately, I canβt share the details because of an NDA π
we get our firsr client this week
congrats!
Thanks
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