Day 11: Workflow

Day 11

Today was packed! We’ve canceled our lawn mowing service to save money; we’re using that saved money to buy a lawn mower and weed eater so that I can do the work myself. This morning we drove to pick one up and it was sketchy. Surprisingly we made it out of there alive and with the lawn mower.

Once I got home I hopped back into interview prep. I had Codex walk through a technical interview for two projects I built. I gave it a PDF of interview instructions that I had been given for a role that I’m interviewing for. It was fantastic. The most important things it gave me were study topics to dive into. The second important thing it gave me was honest feedback on my communication and verbiage so that my technical concepts and know-how come across the right way and I accurately explain the solutions I’ve written. I did this for two separate projects and it was such a fulfilling experience. I’ll be creating/sharing skills from this experience to hopefully aid other interviewees.

I also spent some more time on Codewars working on the “craft” as I’ve come to refer to it as. There is something incredibly exciting about using basic Ruby primitives (I hand-roll a lot of my own methods for instructional purposes) to solve classic computer science problems while considering Big O. The fundamentals that are exercised during these challenges are still so applicable. Not necessarily the exact algorithm or the same problem, but the strategy you use to formulate your solution, how you trace your program to find bugs without a debugger, and how you reread documentation to understand the edge cases of a method you were sure would work for you. So fun!

Anyways, most of my time was interview prep and subsequent studying on topics I had either forgotten due to a lack of day-to-day application or never taken the time to understand fully.

I ended my night with an incredible video on a single developer’s agentic development workflow. As I write this, I’m itching to apply so many things that the video creator mentions. Check it out if you’re an agentic developer and/or interested in this sort of workflow strategy stuff.

God Bless! Time to kick Thursday’s butt!