Theme of the month: Endings. My wife and I sold our house in order to move and I wrapped up a big project at work so that I can tackle some accounting integrations.
Where My Time Went
I finished a big lift and shift project of over 20 years of sales data between database servers. It was one of the smoother projects that I've done so far. Not no bugs, but fewer! The difference was becoming obsessed with proving what I'm shipping which revealed a lot of incorrect assumptions that saved me in this project.
Small Wins
With fzf and tmux, I dramatically improved my ability to navigate my system on the command line and store windows associated with projects that I'm working on. Heavily inspired by tmux-sessionizer
Before some stakeholders were about to show off a feature I had worked on to the whole staff, it started hard failing. Under pressure, I was able to locate and fix the bug in about 5 minutes!
Worth A Read
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work — reign it in, cowboy
AI makes you boring — creative ideas are born out of painful problem solving
What God Thinks About You — a 10 year old article that I am going to return to
Half-Baked
- Vertical Slice Architecture is the best strategy for agentic workflows.
- TestContainers for integration testing gives me way more peace of mind than the three unit tests that I added in 20 minutes.
Other Things
I shot a 116 on 18 and then a 50 on 9 in back to back days. If I can keep this level of improvement up, I'll be on the tour by July.
Started playing Fallout 4 finally. It turns out, I am not very good at role playing games. After about 7 hours of gameplay I found myself high-tailing it out of the castle with a .38 rifle with no armor and no ammo. I have not started farming food yet.
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