🍂 Mood: Wearing flannel and walking 3 miles to get a latte.

🎵 Soundtrack: Happier Than Ever

✨ Most Proud Moment

I found a bug where testable examples were providing false positives. I wrote a parser and found 7 examples of this bug in the top 1000 golang repos on github. I submitted a go vet check to prevent this from happening again, which is now merged in!

📊 Some Stats

🤓 How Has it Been Going?

I’m loving it! I feel like I have learned more about Go this month than I have in the past year. It’s been great to have the time to learn and poke around with no deadlines. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to take 3 months of self-directed learning, but now I’m thinking that 3 months isn’t enough! I haven’t done much with networking stuff, which was my original plan, but I’ve been learning SO MUCH that it doesn’t bother me. Nothing I’m learning feels extranious, it all feels like stuff that will make me a better programmer.

☀️ What My Day Looks Like

a screenshot of my calendar

  • First I check in on CFF slack. I am the technical and execution lead for the App Runtime Platform Working Group (ARPWG - pronounced “arp wiggle” in my mind) and I want to make sure to respond to community members.
  • Next I read all the go github issues that have been opened since the day before. I write down any that catch my eye.
  • Then I spend the rest of my time investigating one of those issues or researching something I am interested in.
  • I always try to make it to crossword time.
  • I end each day by writing this blog. It has been a great resource for myself, especially for the little things like remembering which commands I ran last week to get something working.
  • I only have 2 bi-weekly meetings: one with my manager (hi Chris!) and one with my mentor (hi Gareth!). I have ignored basically everything else, which has been great for focusing.

⚽️ Goals for the Next Two Months

I’m really happy with how things have been going. So my only goal is “keep going”.

💁‍♀️ Best Little Learnings

  • vim: "+y will yank things from vim to my normal paste buffer
  • vim: ctl-v will let you use the vertical cursor
  • go: %#v is the best way to print any struct 
    type T struct {
  a int
  b float64
  c string
}
t := &T{ 7, -2.35, "abc\tdef" }
fmt.Printf("%v\n", t)
fmt.Printf("%#v\n", t)

    This prints:

    &{7 -2.35 abc   def}
&main.T{a:7, b:-2.35, c:"abc\tdef"}