All My Friends Send Me Pictures Of Alan Turing

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All My Friends Send Me Pictures Of Alan Turing

I read the most beautiful thing about Alan Turing the other day. I read that young people doing cool things in tech 

Would’ve been exactly the legacy he wanted. I always knew this but it was still great to read. Whenever I feel misunderstood in tech and that is still very often 

As I struggle to balance asking for accessibility requirements and doing things myself 

I never have to look any further than my great great friend Alan Turing. Who might never have cried over a Jira ticket because he couldn’t figure out the structure of it - but did know what it was like to feel like an outsider. And I know he would’ve wanted to help me and to support me in every possible way

And I know he would’ve been proud of how I have never, ever given up no matter what and that I have kept on going. And would’ve loved my passion

I know I wrote in my last post about 5 steps to follow. I want to make them more accessible somehow

Graffiti of Alan Turing and his name on an electricity box
Photo from a friend in Poland

Because currently the steps look like this: 

  1. Write out what I think the acceptance criteria are and just send them to someone
  2. Find the problem in the UI (ask for help if I get stuck, if it takes like more than 30 minutes or something - but I find new UIs very confusing and overwhelming)
  3. Find the problem in the code. Possibly using the UI - eg searching for a string or something (then I usually like to follow the file path as I always learn something new from it thank you)
  4. Read through the relevant file or files, understand what the code does. Follow any function calls. You think I’m scared. I’m not scared. I used to work in AI repos lol I am not scared
  5. Ask any relevant questions based on the code to any codeowners or relevant people or ticket writers
In theory I should never freeze again. If I’m not doing the above or solving the problem or waiting on review and etc. Then I should be seeking clarification 

Now I just need to get on with my little react project for the first hour of the day and I also need to carve out more focus time thank you

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