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As they don't yet know what care I drive... (Problem Solving, Part 1) Okay so technically I am off today but I have spent the whole morning off resting and relaxing and I have been watching some Sherlock Holmes and my brain has been spiked... so here are some ideas. I've been meaning to do this for ages... I've been wanting to write this post. This post is about problem solving. Problem Solving Okay so apparently I have been too junior with my problem solving. I need to think more like a Senior... or like an Engineer II... or like a higher-level Engineer I (an Engineer I is a high-junior/low-mid, btw). My main colleague gave me a really amazing clear technical lesson on how to solve problems better. It was so good I decided to write a blog post on it. In fact, two.  I decided one wouldn't be enough.  So here we go. How doe a Senior solve a problem? Well, what I was told is this: How a Senior solves problems "When I change code now I think about what I want the outc

It's Safe to Dance And safe to be myself, and safe to be my neurodivergent self - and safe to express my neurodivergent self freely and not to be who other people want me to be or to conform to who other people think that I have to be or think that I am  Also, I've decided that my favourite things in the world are mountain lakes, and that I want to make all of my infographics with them from now on... or at least the next  While I haven't been very well, unfortunately, it's gonna take a lot more than that to take my brain out. I haven't been able to stop thinking about stuff but that's okay - it's been good to have a few days without coding - the amount of upskilling I have done this year and in the last since months since my last holiday has been unfathomable. I have to trust and believe that every single thing that I do is all part of the mission and takes me a little bit closer to the goal. I have to believe that every single one of these blog posts is for

What 500 blog posts means to me, and how much I hope that it will show you how much I care "I wanna live, I wanna give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold..." Neil Young searched for a heart of gold. I searched for a way to express my love and my care into this world. But most of all I searched for a way to show how much I care about Software Engineering. From the moment I started doing this, I knew that I was born to be doing this. Well okay then, that's not true. It took about two months. But: It's all about the mission.  The passion. The story. It's all about this journey that I'm on. I don't know where this journey ends.  I can say things like: I don't want to go into management I never wanna be a manager; I wanna be an IC forever I am going to be a hands on coder forever for sure And while I hope that might be true. And it might be true. I don't know where this story ends. I only know: How much I care How passionate I am  How much I car

When the ray of light shrinks, shall cold winter nights, begin If you get the reference to the song in the title without looking it up then I might marry you (maybe). The most beautiful song ever written of all time. I have spent the whole of this weekend writing to do lists and no I am not even sorry If you want to judge me I'm afraid you have to have AuDHD, as badly as I do, and be dealing with all the other stuff I have dealt with recently.  Python to-dos 🐍🐍 I love courses but they stress me out. I can't stand the pressure. But I enjoy them. And in hindsight I will miss them. I probably need to take a deep breath and to relax. And to try and be enjoying it more. It will be over soon enough. Here are my remaining to-dos: In Intermediate Python (Finish the rest of the course): Generators Only the project Sets Lesson Quiz Collections Lesson Quiz Sets and Collections Combined project Resource management Lesson Quiz Project And then I will be done with the intermediate Python c

I'm not drinking wine, but that cherry coke you serve is fine This morning I wrote a monster to-do list from hell. I'm pleased to say that I'm doing a bit better now - and I still had time to do lots of nice things - go to my neighbour's baby's birthday party, cook some nice food, go food shopping, chat with my amazing friend in the local organic shop (I call him my mum away from home as he helps me to choose products when I am sick etc.) and do some self-care. So how am I doing now and where am I at please? Thanks. What else remains to be done please? Thanks. Really what I want to talk about is what I have left to do: I want to listen back to the 45 minute session I did with my amazing manager on problem solving  I want to look at the code we wrote concurrently I want to consolidate somehow - blog post, LinkedIn post, message to manager or journal entry I want to turn a precursor session he gave me into two blog posts I want to listen back to something he said abou

Python on the Weekend cos GENERATORS I am sorry I just want to get this course done. I love it but I am not enjoying the stress of it - of it hanging over me. I still have this module and then 2-3 more modules and then two modules from the advanced course. But it is the intermediate ones that really need to be done. Ideally they need to be done by mid-January. But before would be better too. And if I can get the advanced ones done by before then too then that would be even better too - thank you. Connecting Generators "There is are some cases where it is useful to connect multiple generators into one." ... "This allows us to delegate the operations of one generator to a sub-generator." Wait, WHAT? "Connecting generators is similar to using the itertools chain() function to combine iterators into a single iterator." Oh okay yes this is so easy   this is so easy I get it now omg. "In order to connect generators, we use the yield