👩💻 Full-stack web noob who identifies as a backend goblin.
🧶 Avid knitter & yarn-buyer.
⌨️ Rails+Ruby, but functional-/procedural-curious.
😎 Sharing the thoughts I have while mind-melding with the machine.
first_name: "𝙰𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚊"
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When faced with a bug, a crash, a memory leak, or some other source of stress, one must never forget the importance of touching grass.
MVP demo presented. All went well. Clients now in internal discussion and test-driving phase. Me for the next week and a half:
One of the most valuable lessons I've learned in this career shift (from sales into programming,) is not to panic the minute I see an error or problem of some kind. Sometimes, errors are expected and carry valuable information. Triage, then address.
This thought occurred to me when I caught myself smiling at a 500 error in server logs because I knew my db wasn't hooked up yet. To be expected!
How it feels to be a girl with API integrations.
Production app maintenance, memory monitoring, writing client-facing docs, rehearsing demo flow.... And constantly leaving notes to myself because stress tanks my short-term memory. I feel like the guy in Memento right now.
I stuck the first post-it on my office wall as a source of inspiration. It has kept me going for 2 years. I rewrote it today.
In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...
Today’s Canadian painting is “Quebec Impression” painted by Bertram Brooker in 1942.
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first_name: "𝙰𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚊"
first_name: "𝙰𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚊"
first_name: "𝙰𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚊"
first_name: "𝙰𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚊"
first_name: "𝙰𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚊"
first_name: "𝙰𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚊"
Sarah O'Connor
This was a nice reminder from GitHub it also helped me figure out how to remove copilot entirely from the web UI 😇
