Day 21 — Timezones are weird

For the past month, I've been working in Eastern Time, while being physically located in Indian Standard Time. Which means I wake up around 12-2pm IST and go to sleep around 5-6am IST. Timezones are weird.

Over the weekend I attended PyConline AU in Australian Central Standard Time (Curlyboi Standard …

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Day 20 — Make Javascript run faster with this simple trick!

Today I paired with Ezzeri to look at some of his Exercism Rust track solutions. The discussion moved to WebAssembly and we went through some minimal examples he has been working on. He's also written a nice blog post which has some beginner level WebAssembly resources.

The whole exercise filled …

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Day 19 — I madeth a Sphinx extension

Today I thought that adding a gallery to display what everyone is building with present would be great! I guess this was a distraction from the talk research I previously mentioned (which I need to finish ASAP!) :(

But I learned how to write a simple Sphinx extension, which is cool …

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Day 18 — Mini kubey kube, where are you?

I decided to set up minikube to create a small demo for a talk that I have to submit this weekend. Right now I'm going through the Phase 4 that Hynek Schlawack talks about in his article on conference speaking.

I SWEAR TO GOD I’M NEVER SUBMITTING A TALK …

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Day 17 — Pair programming is fun!

Today I paired with Taro to walk us through the present codebase. It was a nice learning experience to talk about (and explain) how everything is structured because I don't get to do that while working alone. I need to pair program more!

After the walkthrough, we came up with …

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