Where I’m at

• I’ve been really absent, as I had my first son, and he’s 6 weeks old now. In the meantime, I’ve grow so much. Grown to love this little boy, and also work on myself a lot.
• Working through my own personal crypto project, which I feel like is shaping up and refining because of the time I’ve had away taking care of the baby.

What I learnt

• That there’s only a few key principles of programming that more or less mean the same thing. This is what I got:

1. MANAGE STATE

   • “How do we track and control information?”
   • Data storage & retrieval
   • State changes
   • Persistence
   • Memory management
   • Variable scope

2. HANDLE UNCERTAINTY

   • “What happens when things go wrong?”
   • Error handling
   • Edge cases
   • Validation
   • Testing
   • Recovery strategies

3. RESPOND TO CHANGE

   • “How do we react to events?”
   • Event handling
   • User interactions
   • System events
   • Data updates
   • Communication patterns

4. ORGANIZE CODE

   • “How do we structure our solutions?”
   • Architecture
   • Modularity
   • Code reuse
   • Dependencies
   • Project structure

5. TRANSFORM DATA

   • “How do we convert information?”
   • Data processing
   • Type conversion
   • Data flow
   • Formatting
   • Parsing

6. CONTROL TIMING

   • “When should things happen?”
   • Async operations
   • Scheduling
   • Concurrency
   • Synchronization
   • Order of operations

7. MAINTAIN CONSISTENCY

   • “How do we keep things valid?”
   • Data integrity
   • Business rules
   • Validation
   • Verification
   • Invariants

8. MANAGE COMPLEXITY

   • “How do we make it understandable?”
   • Abstraction
   • Documentation
   • Mental models
   • Learning paths
   • Human factors

• I feel like a good majority of tasks more or less break down into those universal programming concepts, and that there’s a lot of “same game, different name” type of work going on in the world of tech.
• On a personal level, I think I’ve come to terms with more of my perfectionism, there’s a lot to it, but I think it comes down to some biological, and some mindset issues. I’m working through them now, and it’s really helping me actually start instead of suffering ahead of time.

What I did

• I updated this post about ADHD, and now includes perfectionism. I put my thoughts down on paper about my perfectionism, which stems from a belief that I’m already at #1, or I because I have the capability to being #1, then anything less than, will cause me to suffer in imagination ahead of time while I struggle to figure out all the details that made the #1, into #1.

What I reviewed

The content that I reviewed today was: Study Journal entry for 03-10-2023

• I think I considered this before, but it’s a good resource on complying with ICO requirements here in the UK. Not much more that I can explain other than that, it’s more legal than coding.