So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth

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So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth 

Today is not ending well. It started out pretty good though. I wrote some documentation for accessibility and manual testing. That is really exciting. I want to make a difference to this world. If I can do something to make the world better and kinder through technology then that’s amazing. I however do find Fridays really tough. I have to finish on time and I can never normally finish on time. It takes me 45 minutes after I have stopped working to really stop working. I have to process things and write down steps and write up task lists and write up to do lists. 
The day does not feel done until I have done that 
And on Fridays I normally dance or today I got dragged to the pub as my body needed to physically rest from dancing so I can’t stay until 5.45 which is what I normally need
I have too much to do
What so I need to do Susanna
What do I do
  • My ticket on preventing excess re-renders and therefore improving the performance of our page is done
  • That was fun I really liked it
  • I enjoyed reading loads from it 
  • I enjoyed reading the technical documentation
  • I enjoyed reading the react docs
  • I love them
  • I love them so so so much
  • I read about profiler and react dev tools and I read in detail and depth about props
That was so useful cos that was on Wednesday and on Thursday I learned about context
Having a really good in depth understanding of props helped build that understanding of context very quickly
Anyway so
  • That ticket the one about re renders is ready to merge on Monday 
  • All I have to do is click merge
  • I am coming back in in the afternoon so I will have to do it then 
  • And then what
  • I have been doing a ticket on context in react
  • I enjoyed learning about it it’s fascinating
  • It’s really so cool omg
  • It really blew my mind
  • It’s fascinating
  • I find it so amazing that you can wrap something in a react component that doesn’t actually get rendered 
  • What is it is it the provider prop it’s so crazy and so cool and I don’t get it wow wow wow and I need to revisit it and wow
  • I have a few resources on context I want to revisit
  • A diagram
  • The official react docs
  • Some notes
  • Some notes on the ticket in the comments
  • Notes in my NASA notebook
  • Notes on scraps of paper in the back of my NASA notebook
  • Notes in my giant WH Smith’s sketchbook (don’t ask)
  • And I want to put this all into a blog post or two
And then there is the ticket itself lol bro what
Why is this so hard
Omg
And that is just the ticket stuff
I have so much other stuff
  • I wrote some accessibility documentation and I want to finish it off
  • Need to add proof of it as well to the slides also
  • I wrote some goals
  • I am refining them
  • Want to get more specific about testing
  • Want to get more specific about react goals
  • I asked my team about react patterns but everyone ignore me, so, classic
  • That’s okay I can answer the questions myself
  • Want to get more specific about graphql goals and this is what TERRIFIES ME
  • Why is there is still so much that I don’t know
  • I don’t even know what I don’t know lol
    A photo from the Pyrenees

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