A Song That's Too Beautiful To Finish

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A Song That's Too Beautiful To Finish

If you know me you know that I get to work with really beautiful and really really truly truly wonderful wonderful people.

I currently have some incredible Senior mentors I'm working with and they really really inspire me to no end. One of them has inspired a lot of work that is on my other blog, and another one has inspired me to write a series I'd like to document here.

Offshore wind farms as viewed from the beach.
This photo was sent to me by a friend and fellow software engineer!
The Series

One of my seniors/my interim manager (while someone is away), has taught me so much about solving software engineering problems.

I want to write up a mini-series, but I'm going on leave.

I expect to write a mini-series when I get back - on the days when I don't have another hot topic to write up.

These are what the topics will be:

Solving Software Engineering Problems

  • Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
  • Most of software engineering is just getting things wrong
  • Build stuff out to try stuff out
  • Try to add stuff that doesn't break too much
  • Try to add things that are small and simple already 
  • Don't forget to use the readme!!!
    • I also like "don't forget to check the commits" but I want to expand on that one a bit and/or build out a whole using GitHub series OR SOMETHING

Edit: 

I want to add one more little post here that I will add with time.

Because I love this post so much, and because I love its name so so much - it has a beautiful name - I think I might use it as a store for ideas of blog posts I want to write in the future - not in the near future but a bit further down the line - for ADHD basically then this means "not imminently."

Posts:

  • I would like to write a post a bit further down the line on why diagrams are useful when working in teams in software engineering. 
    • This idea was first explored in this blog post, especially in the p.s. section.
    • My mentor has said that: "maybe drawing more diagrams at work will provide ideas for the post."

ASAP: 

  • A post on software tradeoffs!!! 

Urgent update - 15/6/24


I am shelving absolutely everything to work on practical python learning.

This is my last theoretical homework that I did (it was mostly practical anyway: https://softwareengineerprincess.blogspot.com/2024/06/handling-leap-years-relativedelta.html
  1. I am shelving a post with tips on how to do types in Python and TypeScript: (message from manager)
  2. I am shelving a blog post on backend requests as a tutorial (some of this might look the same as below)

  3. I am shelving a blog post on objects.all and objects.get as a tutorial (some of this might look the same as above)


  4. I am updating my description of this blog and I am officially initiating phase 2: mad python LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Further blog posts...

TBC

any thing my mentor says that sounds interesting - I might do a write up or I might shelve it here or I might have to leave it so I can urgently URGENTLY focus on upgrading and upskilling my Python.

p.s.

It is unusual for me to post in the middle of the day. 

I am tidying things up before going on AL. And for some of the things that are the most important to me - the best place is my blog

p.p.s. gotta run

Why the title? It's a phrase that came into my head today while listening to Bat for Lashes' "At Your Feet". Life is a song that's too beautiful to finish and all of the universe and the whole of the world is.





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