Let's end the week on a high note.
Looking back, what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small!
Examples of 'wins' include:
- Getting to all your meetings on time
- Starting a new project
- Fixing a tricky bug
- Cleaning your house...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄
🎉
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This week, I learned about using NOT EXISTS in a SQL subquery! I was able to use this to get rid of a left join and speed up a hairy database query 🎉🎉🎉 It really made my week lol. Also had a really good chat with a mentee about equivalence vs. equality in JS and Ruby!
I wish SQL had a negative join operation consistent with other join types because the fact that a
NOT EXISTSsubquery outperforms the outer join + null test approach just doesn't seem right.I absolutely agree - I actually found this by googling "opposite of a join query" 😂 it would be cool to have an EXCLUDE operation or something similar
(can it be non-dev related? Please @jess 🖖)
This week, I went back to the gym after the physiotherapist benched me for a few weeks because of an injury! It gives me an energy boost and... it sparks joy :D
Yes it can (i'll update with an example)!!
and heck yeah!!!
Glad you're doing well :)
LOL
ahah thanks! :-)
This week, I.... turned this post into a lightning talk and gave it at a Women Who Code event I organized!
This week, I... was able to earn my Responsive Web Design Certificate via FCC, was able to launch my
site, started reading The Art Of War of Sun Tzu and started developing my Web Design company website.
This week, I made five 3-pointers (4 in a row) in a pickup 🏀 game and setup Code Climate on an open source project.
Great idea for a discussion, I ❤️ it!
This week, I added code climate check for one my open source library.
It was tough to get code coverage test work but with help from Dave Follett 👊,
10+ commits
I got it working last night.
Test Coverage tasks
Validate CircleCI configuration file
And a CircleCI issue was due to an indentation error, which Dave pointed out 😛
CodeClimate 👌
Tremendous tool
Uber cool.
It reminds you of the time when you first used eslint(or Resharper) and see massive errors 😛
In addition to being a great tool, Code Climate generously gives itself away for free to open source. Amazing stuff.
This week, I got promoted at work
Awesome dear.
This week, I... finally started reading "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer" by @sandimetz and have been enjoying it SO much. What a fantastic writer!
Omg! That's one of my favorite books of all time. I actually use a quote from it as my "goodbye" to students on the last day of class. May or may not have cried a few times.
Nice! Let us know how it is when you finish it!
This week, I....
Coded a lot of stuff in Go! I spent a lot of time thinking about how best to approach the problem and making sure test along the way. So far I have about 85% test coverage according to
and 100% test coverage of exported utilities.
This week, I finally started sharing on Dev! I’ve always wanted to get involved in a dev community and start writing about my perspective on things but always got caught in the trap of trying to ‘overperfect’ everything I wrote (and never actually posting any of it.)
This week I finally just posted something. Then another thing. Then another thing after that. I know the writing could use a lot of work, but hey, I’m not gonna learn by rewriting the same five articles on Evernote a thousand times!
Awesome! Will check those out.
This one was actually from earlier today! I was struggling with a PR, so I thought it'd be a smarter, more productive move to walk away and address another bug. When I tracked down the cause of this other bug, I wound up finding an issue that broke several key parts of our app while slipping through a blind spot in the tests. Thanks to me finding it, we managed to get a fix to production before the weekend!
I count it as a win since it shows my old habit of banging my head against something to prove myself, it's often not as good as moving to where I can be more effective for the team.
This week, I forgot how to use Git and GitHub so taught myself how to use them again
NICE 🙌
😅
I am beginning to learn git. Any tricks that might help ??
Tried to use github desktop. Unfortunately doesn't work on my machine.
I used Codecademy's course codecademy.com/learn/learn-git
Awesome 👍 , thanks
This week, I pushed a fix to allow
code spansin comments and the article editor! I had been putting it off a bit because I thought it would be a hairy fix, but it turned out to be really straightforward. It was a pleasant surprise, and it was a good reminder that something may seem more difficult than it actually is.You're becoming a regex ninja ;D
This week, I was able to arrange to get paid for the first time to write a python tutorial or article in one of the awesome python blogs I had been learning from for awhile.
That sounds pretty ideal.
Yeah, it is cause I would never imagine me in getting paid to write. Now it's left for me to write the article or tutorial which is a nice problem to have I guess.
Back at the beginning of January I submitted an op-ed to a local newspaper on a non-tech related topic, and they finally published it this morning. So that made me pretty happy. Also got a particularly annoying bug fix ticket into testing, so there's that.
Got OAuth2 working on out bespoke backend, to get data from Firebase.
Edit: Thanks to this package github.com/kjur/jsrsasign
Congrats!