Étiquette : work

Practice makes perfect. And I believe this is especially true for software engineering roles.

I’ve been following since last week a series of lives coding sessions by Florian Truchot; on advanced WordPress integration with Gutenberg. And as he’ s progressing, I realize that where he is today is the result of several years of assiduous practice.

Beyond having or not having skills, it’s also important to have confidence in yourself; and to have confidence in what you conceive as a software engineer.

We’re getting ready to go into a week of work that I think will be just the way I like it. An hyperactive working week.

At the agency we are preparing to launch a number of projects and actions. Most of them are related to the COVID-19 epidemic in Benin.

The objective is to react quickly, be flexible, and propose concrete and scalable solutions; to curb the spread of the virus.

On building a network for an introverted person

A little context to start with. I’m currently developing and maintaining WordPress products and platforms at the Sèmè City Development Agency. I think I’m the youngest person at the Agency. As a result, I think it encourages more people to give me advice that I often find very instructive.

Today, I spoke with a colleague about the importance of building a network. But more specifically, why I shouldn’t hide behind the fact that I’m an introvert to avoid meeting people.

I have rather high professional ambitions, you might say. But so far, I’ve more or less avoided networking and all that.

I realized that it wasn’t necessarily the right way. Humans shouldn’t be excluded from our interactions (when you put it like that, it sounds strange, but when, like me, we’re very « connected » it makes sense).

As a result, you might see me more and more at networking events and meetings in Cotonou and maybe in other countries of the West African sub-region.

Leaving is hard

Yes I know, I’m starting out a bit dramatic ?, but I don’t want to talk about a dramatic story at all. Let’s just say it’ just a little sad (well, in a good way).

So, at the Agency, we’re in the process of a reorganization; if I can call it that. Some members of the team, including me, are moving offices. You have to know that our offices are in fact large « open space » offices that are very friendly.

I’m going to the office next to the one I was in. Today was the day it was supposed to be done. I hung around a bit because I didn’t want to leave ?.

But then there’s the good side too. I’ll have a chance to connect more with my new « roommates ».

It’s kind of very strange

I’m writing this note on March 12, 2020, but I’m going to backdate it to March 10. There is something very strange that happened yesterday; and I just noticed it.

Last night (March 11th), I had a problem logging in to the admin of my site. The problem seemed to come from the Yoast SEO extension that I use on the site. A few seconds after I started debugging the error, access to the admin was lost.

I had just published a few hours earlier my WordPress tutorial of the week. So I moved the site back to the March 10th backup. And this morning, I realize that I don’t have a #DailyNote for March 10th. Normal I said to myself.

But the strangest thing is that I can’t find the note of March 10th in my Google Keep notes. I always write the notes in Keep before editing them in the site editor.

So it’s like there was no March 10th. Strange ?. To investigate.