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Writing Down the 6 Most Important Tasks for the Next Day Ah yes. Blogging at 2 am.  I had an exhausting two weeks and barely slept. Today I finally crashed and slept all day. Awesome but now I am awake at night. You may have noticed my second blog - www.susannalearnsreact.blogspot.com I wanted a place for all of my react notes as I am approaching it deeper now. I am also starting a new project to practice it - how on earth I will find the time for this I do not know - luckily I am quite efficient with my work. I can code very quickly. The challenge for me is not the coding and it never was.  It is understanding the instructions, the task and the brief. Luckily my tickets right now are amazing. And being in frontend saves me every time. If I can see the problem  I can fix it The Top 6 Tasks for Next Day This is a lifesaving thing. I need to do it at the end of every working day but I always forget  What are my top 6 for Monday? Read the accessibility docs I have timeb...

Vois sur ton chemin "FEEL AT THE HEART OF THE NIGHT - THE WAVE OF HOPE."  Saturday. Spain's first ever female ecstatic dance DJ is in Hove playing the craziest set I have ever heard in my life. I have been dancing for 3 hours. Intensely. I am so tired. Then a song I forgot ever existed comes on  The song of my childhood "Vois sur ton chemin." I sang the alto part in school (I am a soprano who can go low). The techno remix. Verbal reactions were banned on the dancefloor so I couldn't scream out my specific words of excitement but my body danced like crazy. It gave me the surge I needed and now I am reminded of my childhood The song means "focus on your path." Focus on your path  Focus on your path Get tickets from one side of the board to the other  Get your code live into production  GET YOUR CODE LIVE INTO PRODUCTION  Get users using your code GET USERS USING YOUR CODE It was a mistake to think that I was ever hired for anything else. But it's...

I'm done hiding, now I'm shining, like a butterfly  I'm celebrating "Golden" and it's Grammy win. I have a clear plan going forwards My job is to do my tickets  My job is to do my tickets  My job is to do my tickets, and to move them across the board  My job is to move my tickets across the board  and  My job is to GET MY CODE LIVE  MY JOB IS TO GET MY CODE INTO PRODUCTION MY JOB IS TO GET MY CODE INTO PRODUCTION MY TASK IS TO GET MY CODE INTO PRODUCTION MY FOCUS IS TO GET MY CODE INTO PRODUCTION MY TASK IS TO GET MY CODE LIVE  MY FOCUS IS TO GET MY CODE LIVE and  My job is to get users using my code My priority is to get users using my code  My aim is to get users using my code  That is what I am here for  I am here to get users using my code  I am here to get users using my code  That is what I am here to do  I don't have to say yes to anything that does not support this  I am allowed to say no and restric...

After well over 2 years of battling I have found my focus  If you have ever read even so much as one of my blog posts I want you to go out and have a drink on my behalf. I am 10000% serious. This is a breakthrough on this blog. And if you have watched me suffering... then I have suffered a lot. I WILL SAY IT 1000 TIMES. If I have to write 1000 identical blog posts. I will. WHAT IS MY MAIN FOCUS AT WORK Getting tickets from one side of the board to the other  Getting the code I write live  Getting users to use my code I am writing this at 11 pm after a dance workshop. I will write this out 1000 times  I don't care  I know I have this accessibility focus. I know I am learning React. I have the most amazing technical mentor and he has taught me to read the docs When I was 19 I had to battle for months to get an important identification number. When I finally got that thing I wrote it out so many times I COULD NEVER FORGET IT and I still know it perfectly  It m...

What makes a software engineer (at work)? Bro told me to stop worrying so much about what other people think of me. Bro (who is also a very senior Lead and a technical mentor to me, so um maybe not bro, hmm, whoops) told me that I care too much about other people's perceptions of me (that is true) and that that's not what matters  So what does matter at work? Getting tickets from one side of the board to the other  Getting code that you write live  Getting users using your code What could happen if I made these 3 my main focus at work And how could I do that? You see a big part of my work is spreading love  And now I have this cool new accessibility focus as well too  Also want to pay tribute to this crazy new track I have discovered

Thinking in State & State Shape: React (Absolute Disaster - Part 2 can only be better)  This is the task for my react time this morning and it's not going well. I've been blocked on it since I knew it was coming. Some cryptic statements from chat gpt include: "State is a model of change - not a mirror of your UI" They say I should be asking myself: "Does this need to change over time?" "Can I calculate this instead?" "What is the simplest shape that still works?" BRO WHAT ARE THESE SHAPES.  WHAT ARE THEY. "This session is decision making, not syntax". BRO TOPIC NUMBER 1: "MULTIPLE USESTATE VERSUS ONE OBJECT" Separate pieces of changes  vs. One bundled piece of change  React doesn't care - I care because it affects mental load apparently and some stuff - bugs and readability  MAKE REACT EASY  "DOES THIS STATE CHANGE TOGETHER OR INDEPENDENTLY?" CHAT GPT STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO. IT IS TELLING ME TO TA...