Developers report progress on long-blocked work projects and skill-building
5 Sep 21 8:58 AM · 3d ago · 1 post · 4 comments · 1 source · development 5 of 6
Multiple commenters noted breakthroughs in work projects that had been stalled, alongside personal learning pursuits such as HAM radio certification. One described finally making progress on three blocked projects as feeling like 'WD40 finally dissolves rust enough.'
“Slowly chewing through three blocked projects. After weeks of frustration, it's nice to finally see things move. It's like when WD40 finally dissolves rust enough for you to make those first tiny movements in a seized mechanism.”
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**Work:** Slowly chewing through three blocked projects. After weeks of frustration, it's nice to finally see things move. It's like when WD40 finally dissolves rust enough for you to make those first tiny movements in a seized mechanism. **Non-work:** Reading a manual and grinding practice exams for a HAM radio exam. I'm aiming for CEPT Novice…
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Tech: at work, we're recovering from a massive outage on Friday after an unexpected certificate expiration (created before I had joined, with a 10 year expiration...), and I'm making plans to avoid this in future. At home, we finally have an internet connection in our new place; I'm looking into finding an electrician to run some ethernet cables…
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Working on my talk on accessibility in programming for SeaGL.
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At work: Nv series VMs are being decommed at the end of September and my users have been dragging their asses on moving to other SKUs, so I'm going to up the pressure on them. I need to write some documentation. I realized recently that the docs I maintain are for use of the software and none are for the maintenance of that software. I am going to…
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