I don’t know where to start this post. I just know that side projects are really important. Underrated even. I do them whenever I’m curious or when I want to strengthen my knowledge in one area. I’ve taken them for granted.

I’m tired of over abstracting… and I’m over it. There. That’s the blog post.

I was working on ticket recently with a simple-looking front end change. There was a screenshot of the expected output. Modifying React code is rarely simple but that’s topic for another time. I spent about 1 day on this.

I read a lot of books in 2019 and then I fell off the wagon. This year I got back into reading and I realize how much I missed it. There’s some books that I read a while back that I forgot. So I decided to re-read some of them.

I was working on a microservice API that is used as mock integration for a third party API. We asked the vendor to make one for us but it’s not a priority on their roadmap so I built one for us. This API is used every day for testing and rarely has issues.

Every engineer and every company has there own definitions of seniority. They have rubrics, require certain hard skills, and even behavioural aspects they need to see before they consider someone “senior”.

Time management is a crucial skill for success in any field, and the Pomodoro technique has become a popular method for improving productivity and reducing distractions.

I’ve been writing a lot of Jira tickets lately. About 10 in the past week. I’ve refined my personal Jira ticket template over the course of the last few months. Here are the sections I add and why I add them.

I skimmed through dozens of newsletters this week. Here’s some interesting articles I found.

On Sunday I was working on my blog. I wanted to add some Web Weekly content. I was looking at the existing 3 Web Weekly posts and I thought it was time to move them to their own collection.