Thinking about first week of work in 2026

I am not supposed to be thinking about work on holiday and I get that however my mind is processing the crazy amount of learning I did in the last week. I have an unusual first week back. I am not focusing on a ticket per se. My lead is still scoping work and I have some very important learning work to do. One of my Frontend mentors gave me some incredible lessons about mocks and debugging tests.

Now don’t laugh at me but I was never really taught mocks. Not properly. I obviously get the idea and I have used them before especially in backend. But learning them in frontend was quite different. The graphql returns a huge amount of data. And also I keep getting stuck on failing tests. 

Now owing to the miracle where we all discovered that I love diagrams my mentor and I made some diagrams together. Then I set myself two tasks. Then she set me one more and that last one will be groundbreaking. This is the beginning of the rest of my career. It will change everything. I know it will. So what are the tasks 

• Day one is actually more of a tech debt day so I will be pairing with a mentor and looking at some colocation. I’ve done it before but I will get it properly this time as he has been teaching me loads of context
• Then my first proper task is to write up a blog post of everything my other mentor taught me about mocks and how we use them. I have it in miro post it form
• Then I want to make a diagram of the same thing
• Then the real big task and then this is the one that really really matters the most is to:
• Create a flow chart of my process for debugging tests
• What’s in the terminal? What does the code do? What do the mocks say?

Okay back to my holiday 

I want to make one last post about dancing goals and walking goals and meditation goals