Week 1
Thursday... Got to work, didn't do much, most of it was trying to set up access to all the code repositories.
Friday... I didn't get it working on Thursday, so I got some help. It was a giant process, and it took multiple hours. Partly annoying since there was no setup documentation, just a random email that was being sent around to people who needed it. After I got the application setup it ended up being the wrong one, since parts of the site are worked on/deployed differently. Next week I'll have to look into that.
I was also explaining what my project was to a coworker, and he was super amazed. Said it was really cool and difficult stuff. Honestly I was a little confused, since I've started similar things in my free time, and it seemed pretty straight forward to me.
I am also missing the tech stack from my old job, since it would be much easier to use in this application. Clojure(script) is pretty great, although it doesn't have much library support as the popular languages, the language functionality is the best I've used (I really haven't used much though: Java, JS, Python)
I also got an invitation to be a twitch affiliate, so now I have a sub button and can run ads! I also don't have to worry about keeping my viewer average up so I'll probably be streaming more often.
Saturday, I woke up much later than I intended to. Thankfully I didn't really have much planned so it ended up being fine. I went to the gym, and then to a birthday dinner with Michael. Very satisfied :3
At the start of the New Year, I was honestly pretty sad. This stemmed from assuming the worst about a situation. My mind kept going down a rabbit hole, and every level ended up making me feel worse about myself. In the past year I had felt my sense of self-worth had improved, but I guess I'm still dealing with some self-esteem problems. Today, driving home, I thought about how unlikely the stuff is, so I'm just going to not worry about it. Wow I'm re reading this now and it's super vague. Also thinking about just deleting this paragraph. I guess the point is to just not assume the worst in every situation. Meh.