I recently worked with a non-profit org to streamline how they handled reporting their donation data. Previously, they would manually export data from each payment platform for aggregation. To speed this up, I created a small program which pulled data in from each platform and created a single spreadsheet.
Let's say we have a button that copies a bit of text somewhere on the page.
Being in the midst of a pandemic has forced me to realise just how much stuff is out of my control. I'm attempting to notice when I'm worrying about something that I have no power over. Meditation has helped me identify these thought patterns, but I don't know the best way to address them. Maybe noticing is enough? Maybe the more I'm aware of them, the better my passive brain will get at sorting.
Whilst moving my development environment to WSL2, I noticed that the default shell colours for listing files made the text hard to read due to poor contrast. So I went about finding a way to change those defaults.
Over the last few years, we've seen an influx of junior engineers in the tech industry. A lot of advice has been given regarding interviewing for a first role, but I want to touch on something that I don't see talked about that often; reviewing code as a junior engineer.
Over the xmas period I haven’t touched any code and my mental has benefited from it immensely.