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Kind of crazy, not of the best kind.
While most of my day was occupied by meetings, I was spending my backend time trying to get a decent library to convert JSON to BSON and back. Outcome: I failed. I think I could write a decent one myself, but is it worth it?
There are libraries in maven. But our jfrog does not list them, so I had to add the ref to my build.sbt. Eventually it worked. And it turned out that some smart guys somewhere had called the object that has the functionality
Of course there's a cheap solution: JSON -> String -> BSON (and back). That's what I will do when I get back to it. Anyway, had a nice day.
Meanwhile, Renato set up a big meeting dedicated to one "very important" feature, or, rather, big piece of functionality, that we need to deliver asap. And I got a strong feeling that the company has just one programmer. Guess his name.
So, when they wanted me to wrap up what I've been doing and switch to that "emergency programming", I started asking them - how much time do I have to finish the case that was supposed to take a week? Two hours? Eventually they came up with a solution that I remember from my first job. Create a program but don't write it. Just document it. Well, I'm not 23 now, so I just smile and say "ok". The rest of the day they were pinging me, asking when I will finish the thing that was supposed to be done some time next week. I promised to document it tomorrow.
Actually, to document it, I'll need about 20 minutes. But I was busy! Context switch, anybody heard? And I'm from St.Petersburg (a spellchecker suggest Parkersburg), if you know what I mean.
Anyway, since my experiment failed, I'm free to write a doc tomorrow morning, before "standup". For the next "big feature" they also actually want just a design doc from me. This is really no big deal; I'm a writer, ain't I? Since nobody else documents anything, I'm feeling like I'm an internal chatGPT in flesh. Well, you see. I've been writing blogs for ages. Ok, for decades. Like Maria Wassiltschikowa.
While most of my day was occupied by meetings, I was spending my backend time trying to get a decent library to convert JSON to BSON and back. Outcome: I failed. I think I could write a decent one myself, but is it worth it?
There are libraries in maven. But our jfrog does not list them, so I had to add the ref to my build.sbt. Eventually it worked. And it turned out that some smart guys somewhere had called the object that has the functionality
json. There are tons of json things around, so the compilation (for some reason) behaves differently in intellij and in sbt. When I eventually pointed to the right one (not documented, I just looked up the source), it turned out they won't be able to convert our json.Of course there's a cheap solution: JSON -> String -> BSON (and back). That's what I will do when I get back to it. Anyway, had a nice day.
Meanwhile, Renato set up a big meeting dedicated to one "very important" feature, or, rather, big piece of functionality, that we need to deliver asap. And I got a strong feeling that the company has just one programmer. Guess his name.
So, when they wanted me to wrap up what I've been doing and switch to that "emergency programming", I started asking them - how much time do I have to finish the case that was supposed to take a week? Two hours? Eventually they came up with a solution that I remember from my first job. Create a program but don't write it. Just document it. Well, I'm not 23 now, so I just smile and say "ok". The rest of the day they were pinging me, asking when I will finish the thing that was supposed to be done some time next week. I promised to document it tomorrow.
Actually, to document it, I'll need about 20 minutes. But I was busy! Context switch, anybody heard? And I'm from St.Petersburg (a spellchecker suggest Parkersburg), if you know what I mean.
Anyway, since my experiment failed, I'm free to write a doc tomorrow morning, before "standup". For the next "big feature" they also actually want just a design doc from me. This is really no big deal; I'm a writer, ain't I? Since nobody else documents anything, I'm feeling like I'm an internal chatGPT in flesh. Well, you see. I've been writing blogs for ages. Ok, for decades. Like Maria Wassiltschikowa.
