The Pragmatic Susanna

I started reading the pragmatic programmer. I had to put it down after a tiny bit about a year ago as I was focused on python. But I am focused on python no more. 

I skipped the prefaces - I hate prefaces and I can’t read them (I read the first one of three). I reread the bits I once read. And I am slowly coming to new material. So far it seems to be about taking responsibility and avoiding technical debt. And admitting when you don’t know things. So far it feels less groundbreaking than it did a year ago. But then I do have a years more experience. And I have a lot more experience across stacks. I have seen different people and teams and different codebases. 

I have pulled off some pretty crazy AI stunts (as in built inside of a codebase) and worked on a UI that thousands of people use daily since I last tried to read that book. So there is a lot to be proud of

I have written AI tests with really complicated logic and follow it through 

And no doubt I know more than when I last tried to read it. But that’s amazing. That’s so cool…

“I perceive information differently than other people do” 

Information does not work for me like it does for other people. And one day one day I hope this system will reward me

One day 

Because this book says to change something if you are not happy. And god knows there are one or two things I’d like to change. I’d like to change how accessibility is handled where I work. I’d like it to get taken more seriously. I’d also like more acknowledgement of something. Something very difficult I can’t name. Something I find it almost impossible to put into words. Something like. I feel like no one can see how long I’ve been trying for. How hard I’ve been working. And I feel like no one can see how with me 

All of the results come together suddenly

They come together very suddenly. Like for example when I worked in AI 

It took a long long time. But it clicked. It clicked. And then I could do really complex things in the repo. And then I chose to move on.