You’ll start off not knowing what to do. Then you’ll know a little to be dangerous. Then you’ll realize you didn’t know anything. And then you’ll keep learning because you’ll realize mastery is not something that happens over a short period of time.
Because now you have all this other stuff to deal with that two days ago you didn’t have to do. Now things need putting together, patching and updating. Now your time is being pulled in different directions as everyone wants their piece delivered first but you are only one person. And of course, you have your own list of goods you want to work on. So the question is – where do you start? You…
I promise – Merry XMAS – have a day and think about tomorrow.
Tools, scripts, processes – they do the things you don’t want to do in your day-to-day delivery. They automate the simply easy stuff that you should be on auto-pilot for. But never has anyone credited the performance script, the database tuner, the DevOps customizations for the release of a product, or changes in your team culture. They are meant to take the easiest loads off your shoulders so you can focus on the big things;…
Not big on broadcasting what I’m focusing on but sometimes good to write it down to remind myself why I’m doing it. Areas where I want to focus on in the coming months; Typescript and its application to projects I’m working on AWS/GCP – always good to see how the other side of the world lives (or in this case the majority of it) Meetings – why do they continue to be broken after the…