What I was doing back then
2023
Doing
Till April, I was busy helping out on the Communication Committee of PyConDE. Apart from learning how to work with Discord SDK, I also had the first-time experience answering questions at the help desk :)
In May, I did my first talk at PyCon Italia in Florence. Talked a little bit about how to make frontend for the Python project with varying degrees of pain.
I started at Planet Labs as a full-stack developer: now I am looking after usage data and glancing at satellite images. Some of them are so good.
Reading about SWE
- Violent Python
- Refactoring UI
- 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics
2022
Doing
I and my friends used to have a spreadsheet where we would try to add our availability times and find out when we could have a call. No more! I have built Overlap (Note from 2024: which I have deactivated to save on droplet cost). A small tool to do the same, but prettier.
I finished Unity Junior Programmer Pathway, which was really fun.
As the final project, I created a Tiny ball game.
During Christmas, I had time to get a Web Fundamentals - A pathway to web application security certificate
from TryHackMe.
Reading about SWE
- Documenting APIs
- make: the indie maker handbook
- Modern perl (don't ever ask me about that one)
- Clean architecture
2021
Doing
I had a deep dive into Coursera during the lockdowns. I have finished a couple of courses in C++,
Divide and Conquer, Sorting and Searching, and Randomized Algorithms, Building Modern Python Applications on AWS.
Another lockdown adventure was to build a crawler to order covid-19 testing kits. They were rare items back then, and now it just sounds crazy boring.
Reading about SWE
- Microservices patterns
- Women In Tech
- No bullshit guide to math and physics
- Software Engineering at Google
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs