This Week on the Beach
This week flew by quickly! I was swept up in some internal events at work, so the TypeScript study took a backseat.
Two experiences I want to highlight as wins:
- I lead my first code handoff. A client that has been with my company for 5+ years is being handed over to another consultancy for app maintenance. I had to assemble a list of all the tools and services used for this client and guide the new team of developers through setting up access. I never have done something like this before and was very nervous. Also, I felt like I lacked guidance from my coworkers on how to proceed with this. So in the end, it all went well.
- Last week I volunteered to run the annual Slack channel cleanup. A former coworker wrote a Python app that interacts with Slack's API to gather channels of low usage and auto-archive them. It took a lot of debugging to get this app to work (plus my first time using Python in over 3 years!). I gathered the channels, gave folks a week to label which channels to keep, and then went through with auto-archival. Afterward, I spent a half day writing up all the tweaks and fixes I made into a pull request and identifying some issues other beached devs could work on.