This weekly roundup highlights what we believe to be the most thoughtful and/or interesting discussion of the week. We're also be highlighting one particularly cool comment in each installment. 🙌
The DEV Community is particularly special because of the kind and thoughtful discussions happening between community members. As such, we want to encourage folks to participate in discussions and reward those who are initiating or taking part in conversations across the community. After all, a community is made possible by the people interacting inside it.
NOTE: I realize we didn't choose winners for last week. I was out on vacation and this completely slipped my mind. While there were plenty of excellent discussions, I'm going to skip over last week — please forgive me. 😅
Discussion of the Week
This week's pick goes to @thomasbnt for the prompt "I've got a Raspberry Pi 4 B, what can I do with it?"
Gotta love a good maker prompt! It's always so much fun reading through the home project ideas folks have come up with and implemented on their own using Raspberry Pis. So many creative and cool applications!
I also really appreciated the way in which Thomas searched around DEV for related posts and embedded them right into the prompt; this way, interested readers can take a peek at previous similar conversations for inspiration and direction. That was a nice, helpful touch!
Not only that, but the top comment (at the time at least) by @highasthedn has me rolling. 🤣
Mine is directly connected to my router, measures my Internet connection every five minutes and sends the report to one of my servers. Every time I'm facing connection problems and the focking support of German Telekom doesn't believe me I make a beautiful Excel report from my collected data.
Pretty german right 😄
Who doesn't wanna stick it to their ISP? No seriously, if you have an ISP you actually like, please speak up... I'd like to know so that I can potentially use them.
Comment of the Week
Gotta give it up for @jesusantguerrero who dropped a supportive comment in response to a #help post by @ibxsb titled "How do you work on projects you don't like? [Need mental support :(]"
Hello, I would try to find the cause of the uncomfort.
Its complexity? The tooling? The area of the project, the code, etc try to find a cause and improve that area of the project if you can.
Planning ahead your activities and not working on the project beyond than you working hours. It can cause burnout.
Talk with your leadership about it, as you mentioned if you worked in other kind of projects successfully you can tell your managers how you feel and that you are more productive in other kind of projects and remind them those where you made an impact and ask if they can move you from that project.
If you don't have the confidence with your managers to discuss the previous point start looking for another Job. But bear in mind it is something that can happen multiple times in your career and is good to try to face them first but if is bothering you so much the right path is to move on.
Good luck and take care.
Jesus's advice was both instructive and empathetic. Locating the source of discomfort is key to understanding what it is specifically that is bumming you out about the work you're doing. When you know the source, you can more easily work to overcome it and avoid burnout. Aside from that, Jesus offered excellent guidance around talking openly to management about how the work you're doing makes you feel. Words of wisdom shared thoughtfully with kindness — exactly what we hope for in this community!
What are your picks?
There's loads of great discussions and comments floating about in this community. These are just a few we chose to highlight. 🙂
I urge you all to share your favorite comment and/or discussion of the past week below in the comments. And if you're up for it, give the author an @mention — it'll probably make 'em feel good. 💚
Top comments (2)
Aha yeah me too I'm loving how @highasthedn uses this Raspberry Pi ! Good use!
Mine is directly connected to my router, measures my Internet connection every five minutes and sends the report to one of my servers. Every time I'm facing connection problems and the focking support of German Telekom doesn't believe me I make a beautiful Excel report from my collected data.
Pretty german right 😄
My heart is always weak for the people who is suffering mentally.