It's time for our weekly reflection - 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 π π
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This week, I....
Started putting together posts here, where people actually seem to be reading them and leaving feedback that makes me feel like I actually know what I'm doing.
I also started checking out Gatsby and went straight to the "quick start" they recommended for the intermediate/advanced devs and didn't feel lost.
All this to say, in my goal of changing careers I have been feeling the impostor syndrome real heavy lately and this week has been encouraging.
This week, I started my first tech job as a QA Test Engineer :) Super excited to learn and grow deeper in this craft!
This week, I....
had a successful demo for our client. I just started this job in mid-January. Happy to get a massive win!
This week, I....
Other than that I've been deadly tired the whole week running on my last battery reserves.
This week, I made it to 5000 follows!
This week, I.... Gave a talk about e2e testing with JavaScript at a local JS community. It was great. I was particularly happy because there were many students, and I just love seeing young people interested in development, especially in my country (I'm from El Salvador).
This week, I.... finally wrote my first post on dev.to and completed another python course on pluralsight!!
This week, I.... wrote a naive packing algorithm which should hopefully save the company a fair bit of money in logistics costs.
I also had my first solo golf lesson and I'm progressing really quickly with that. Such a good way to get outside, get a good walk in and relax.
This week, I.... had my first technical interview, a practice one through Skilled. I was super freaked-out and I don't know if I passed, but it was a really great learning experience and will hopefully prepare me for the real deal.
This week, I added authentication to my application and the ability to have your own notes/tasks that only you can read/change. Planning to change the ui a bit if I get time.
Link to the app
This week, I.... went running two times without any issues. First time 6 km, next time 4 km run. Besides trying to stay fit, I engaged more with dev.to per reading fantastic articles and providing some feedback in these discussions. Also, I read through 10+ async and await in C# articles as a preparation for speech I'll be giving at the start of the next month on windays.hr.
So yeah, fun times. :)
This week, I....
Learned MSBuild to automate building click once projects, that reduced the time it takes me to build a package by hand from 20 minutes to 2 minutes.
MSBuild Project File
This week, I....
I setup my dream stack:
At least i'm done, and i'm very happy. Now i stop chasing hot trend, and focus more on business.
Do I sense irony?
We can all say that we want to focus more on the business, but it's inevitable that we spend a lot of time learning new stuff and experimenting with it. But yes, it's sometimes too much time and the point is you're never done, there's always something new around the corner.
My goal is just: making it work for the first time, then make it stable enough for production.
Only later will refactor or swap part of the stack with newer things if nessessary.
This week, I... achieved the 1000 stargazers of my RSS reader app for the first time. Also, we achieved 23 paid subscribers in a month for my other side project and user base or traffic still growing on monthly or weekly basis.
This week, I....