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day job

This is definitely taking most of my available focus these days as after being mostly stagnant for about a year with my core service is being upgraded with many new (and complex) features.

The most exciting part of the upgrade was refactoring the core data model and migrating off a SQL Server database schema that suffered from being designed as a temporary solution¹ and death by a thousand cuts backward-compatible-incremental-changes, and onto a future-proof appropriately normalised and constrained PostgreSQL database schema, or schemas to be exact with good namespacing and separation of concerns.

All of that with <0.005% of records needing a fix to satisfy the new tighter constraints !

Working now on the rest of the upgrades in collaboration with an other team, I spend a lot of my time doing code reviews and asking people to run pre-commit checks.

rest of the time

I am currently reading Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Empire, finished Foundation earlier in the year and had a reading dip while moving and all those things. On bedside, I have Andy Grove’s High Output Management and Chris Miller’s Chip Wars, not sure which one I’ll pick up next, or if I will cave and get the Second Foundation.

I have been making my way through the Rustlings course, hopefully will find time to finish soon and actually apply some of that new knowledge on a real project.

I am working on switching to oh-my-zsh and neovim, both of which are fairly easy to switch to but there is still some of my vim config I have not ported.

After regaining some interest in this blog in January/February, I found myself quite overwhelmed by the rest of the things in my life and let it go again. I have found this interest again and will try to develop both single pages and short TIL pages for little recipes I’ve accumulated into my Obsidian vault.