Casting Light on the Reality of Development
I have this awesome tutorial planned, just ready to be implemented. Life had other plans, so plot twist ahead: I worked on project foundations instead and learned about putting health first on busy days.
Right now I am seeking for a job as a software developer and I started a training to improve my application materials and process, since 4 months of active jobseeking did not yet lead to the perfect dream job - or any job at all. This means more time spent on applications and on REST! 7 More days with ‘homework’ and training sessions and I can go full trottle on the tutorial again <3
This is a valuable reminder for myself and for my readers as well to take a step back and take care of their health first, before working hard. Creating awesome content is best done while feeling awesome ;) and super inspired to create a beautiful world to explore. Not while feeling like a wrung-out cleaning rag!
I got some progress for you though! Behind the scenes ;)
We decided on obsidian to plan out our connected story actions(kinda doing a test for the tutorial and seeing if we will stick with it)
I copied the issue board for planning all tasks from my account to the organization, where the repository lives and fixed role permissions. 2 hours of despair well spent… hopefully!
I managed to make OneNote work good enough to actually sync my notes between my laptop and computer with the same account. Big WUHOO for that. Took me several hours due to the usual weird IT bugs, when one just wants to >quickly< do something veeery normal. Now i have a better way to organize all the advice, articles to read, things to plan out and coding to do than throwing it into the never ending google doc.
The templates for our new tickets for the board are mostly done. YAY! So from very soon on we wont forget to add any important information when creating new tickets and this will hopefully stop us from messing up too badly when creating tasks to be done :D
I finally got convinced to use React as a Framework for the frontend, so I can manage all the numbers going up and information updating easily, which will speed up development by a lot. Once i start working on the UI and Frontend. React basically manages all the updates and objects, without me having to write tons of code for it.
So while I will need some more real life time for the next 7 days or slightly more, I am very proud and happy to have finally resolved multiple of the technical setup issued that were floating around in my head for days. Also health comes first, so I am glad that I made the decision to take it a bit slower, till the beast called jobsearch is chained and locked into its timeslots once more.
This might not be the awesome tutorial implemented, that I really want to show you, but It sure helped me feel a lot more structured and confident about doing good work in the future. So with that I will just take it a bit slow for a week, recharge my energy and then get right to it, while having a lot less obstacles on the path.