Happy Friday!!
Looking back at your week, what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small!
Examples of 'wins' include:
- Drinking less caffeine
- Contributing to OSS
- Fixing a trickster bug
- Watering your plants...or whatever else that may spark joy 😄 🎉
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This week, I...
Spoke at my first Meetup!
It was at Flatiron for a group of friends.
The talk was based on this post:
The Three Skills (Plus One) You Should Be Learning As A Developer
Yechiel Kalmenson
Heck yeah! Love these kind of talks. Hope it went well!
Not nearly as bad as I envisioned it 😂
Kudos!!
This week, I merged my first commit into Elixir core!
PR in question was this: github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull...
Jose gave me pointers of where to start, but it was amazing to be able to dive into Elixir source code and understand how the language work, and I love it!
Hoping to contribute more to Elixir/Ruby related projects and just OSS in general :D
Nice!!
This week, I made an open source contribution to the sidekiq-throttled gem that will improve it's performance dramatically for certain use cases. It is not merged yet, but the maintainers like it so far!
This week, I...updated the labeling system on the DEV repo! I didn't go through and relabel our backlog but it feels like the right direction moving forward.
That's amazing! Have wanted a better labelling system for awhile. Thanks for your effort :)
This week, I... hit 5000 followers on Dev.to!
This week, I destroyed my release branch by merging the wrong branch into it and then paired with a coworker to fix it and merge the release branch into develop! Git is rough sometimes 😵
I'm here for the gif 😂
This week, I shipped the third Glitch Challenge: Make a Web Map with Leaflet! The hope is for these challenges to make getting started on Glitch a little bit easier -- if you have a chance to give it a try and make a web map, would love to hear how it goes! glitch.com/culture/make-a-web-map-...
(also I made a fun version while developing the real one; see gif below 🍑)
cool!!
This week, I solved a bug that broke one of the most important features in a legacy application after updating it's libraries and build versions to add support for something else (fortunately the version wasn't released yet).
After 1.5 days of debugging, building and testing I finally found the solution 1 hour before my weekend starts.
Be positive!
This week, I... made it through the week
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My win of the week was to recovering from a burnout, I realized my personal project was not as good as I thought, also I discovered some local projects in production better than the mine, I got demotivated, the passion about it slow down, but after taking couple days resting and speaking with other devs, I am on the road again and working in the project.
My grain of sand:
1) Do not compare your project with others if you are not sure that is for making your own better.
2) If you are in a burnout moment, rest, rest, rest, let your mind to take a break.
3) Speak with colleagues, they could have the answers you are looking for, in my case we all talk about our experiences about a burnout, what they do before and after, when and why to leave a project etc... The humans, we are a social species we need to communicate to release tension, if you not is like drinking a poison meanwhile watching netflix.
Excellent advice. Don't give up on your project!