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Huh. 2 days ago I built 3 significant internal tools for my company that automated important workflows for our growth, in a language that I rarely use (js), in
by afro88 4y ago
Huh. 2 days ago I built 3 significant internal tools for my company that automated important workflows for our growth, in a language that I rarely use (js), in 4 hours. Something we have been putting off for months because we figured it would take a week or two. It was an exhilarating experience.
Yesterday I got a complex data structure out of it in 1h that we'd been talking about but not implementing because it would have taken a couple of days to get right.
In all cases it made mistakes and I had to rely on my experience as an engineer to ask the right questions and fix things. But god damn it made me insanely more productive.
Don't shrug this off and go back to work. You'll get left behind, and may not have a work to go back to.
- krainboltgreene 4y agoSo wait, just to be clear, you deployed production code in a language you don't use regularly? And this is a good thing? This is supposed to take programming jobs? HN is incredible.
- afro88 4y agoWho said anything about production code in a language I don't use regularly? Internal tools that automate 3 workflows we'd been doing manually. 2 node scripts and a super simple web app exposed on our private network.
- Planktonne 4y ago'Production' doesn't mean 'external'; it means 'actively in use'.