The worst about the job hunting process when you lack commercial experience isn't the constant self-doubt and rejections.
It is being too overwhelmed to actually do what you love doing. Which is building stuff and going deeper into Web APIs. That's what gives you the confidence to keep going.
I've been laying the foundations for a personal application project. Using ASP.NET Core for the backend with Vertical Slice Architecture.
Gotta say, I understand why they say you need to actually build stuff to get experience. Creating the scaffolding that underpins your app is quite monotonous.
Close your curtains before attempting!
I've been putting together bits of knowledge from various tutorials and repos. About Minimal API, VSA, NSubstitute, HttpClient, etc.
It also made me appreciate how much better structured tutorials like Svelte's or React's are in progressively teaching you the plumbing.
Advent of Code 2025 started as of today!
I solved Day 1 about 90% of the way. Couldn't figure out one edge case.
But still had fun doing it and reading others' solutions in the subreddit.
Hope to do better tomorrow.
#AdventOfCode
It's 20°C in the UK today ☀️🌅
Supposedly the warmest it will be for a while.
Too bad it's a weekday and you can't go out to enjoy the warmth until after 6.
📉 Some really cool news graphics here.
And most (all?) of them are made with Svelte.