"I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it": Wrapping Up On A Friday Night

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"I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it": Wrapping Up On A Friday Night

Okay so my plan to not write anymore blog posts epically backfired. It's never been about the blogging for me.

It's been about software engineering. Today I have spent the whole day software engineering. I got a really big ticket last night. It has been really hard to grok. I have spent the whole day grokking it. I would say that I didn't write a single line of code all day but that's not true.

I wrote two.

I wrote two lines of code today.

And that was it. But I read so much
  • I learned all about ingestion
  • I applied FOUR DIFFERENT PROBLEM SOLVING MODELS to my problem.
    • I ran it through
    • The "rules" model
    • The "nowadays I write code to meet the outcome" model
    • The "TDD" again
    • The "Given input x, what are the steps necessary to reach output Y" model
All four of these have really made the problem space click. I am so happy.

I have some ideas about the solution too though but I really need to take a step back and to make some decisions about the technical architecture of the model. I also need to test a click command which I didn't manage to pull off last time.

But I am gonna have to try again with this new function I believe.

My boss and my debugging guide tell me to recreate the problem but here as we are calling an API I don't know how much I can recreate.

So I am taking the weekend off and going to dance.

A picture of a gingerbread house on a snowy background.

I need to write some good tests too.


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