New Employee training video

Watching a new employee training video. 

"a coworker is working a broad and needs help." 

 So, I am a wingman now? Oh, wait. Abroad, not a broad.

Hired full time, no longer a contractor

Spent the morning doing orientation. Spent the afternoon trying to figure out why I couldn't sign into all the internal pages. Eventually learned that there was something going around, and blocking about half the company from getting to internal pages. I head over to the Help Desk page. "Click here for instructions on how to fix it". :::Click::: And blocked... you have to be signed in to see the instructions on how to fix not being allowed to sign in. Figured out it was just clearing the cache. Did that, and then sent the info out to others.

Note to self

 if x:

  do y

else:

  print("I can't do that, Hal")

Note to self: Maybe change that before it goes into production.

Just part of writing code

TFW you think "This function should do XYZ" and make it do it right the first time.

So much better than when I rewrote a function 3 times, and was questioning if I even had a clue of what I am doing, before realizing I was editing the wrong csv, which is why it wasn't finding my test cases.

That these 2 things happened 15 minutes apart... That is just part of writing code, right?

 I have made the thing.

I used what I made to update part of a Confluence page.

The updating the Confluence page part is ugly.

Part of the part I made turned a section filled with 'MW-Req-1124' 77 times, and 'MW-Req-116' 56 times into 'MW-Req 1124: 77, MW-Req-116: 56'

Now to make it better, and based on api calls and not scraping a spreadsheet.

 Coworker is not yet sold on AI as a helper, so I point out the things I have it do.

Today's was I had it turn a 300 row, 2 column table into a python dictionary.

The computer did it in about 2 seconds.

It would have taken me a long time, as took

Col1 Col2

and turned it into

'Col1':'Col2',

for all 300 rows.

This is what AI is for.

Sure, I could have written a script to do it, but why spend time creating something I might not need again for some time?

Oh wait, I should have hired someone to do it, to prevent 'robots' from taking our jobs.

 How focused am I on wrapping my brain around making this code work?

Well, I just used my teeth to rip the top off the Ziploc bag my sandwich is in, and only noticed when I was trying to get the sandwich out.

I am blaming it on my having also pulled a tiny package of chips out of my lunchbox, so I was thinking I was opening that.