- I finally finished a version EHR app that I had been developing for last 6 months. I expected it to be over in 2 to 3 months — along with a real time trainer app. I had to rewrite it in PHP as a monolith from Vue3/FastAPI (frontend/backend). I discussed some of mistakes I made in
. Moreover, I should have spent a significant more time on planning and talking to stakeholder, a kind of discovery phase where I force ideas out of people and put them into tickets. Another lesson learnt is that don’t take “another developer joining soon” too seriously. Despite what I write in my resume, I consider this project a professional failure in planning and execution! - This failure lead me to https://www.coursera.org/specializations/real-world-engineering-management. I am taking this short course and enjoying it. I’ve already learnt a lot from it. A few speakers are accomplished IC turned manager. I liked a couple of soundbites from it
- Product manager is a advocate for customers.
- Engineering manager advocates for, well, engineers.
- Working at this other startup made me notice a few things — how small small things adds up to make a huge difference. I notice them because I have something to compare against from my previous startup. Many founders perhaps don’t recognize them because they have nothing to compare against. Perhaps everyone should work at a startup (successful one, if you are lucky) before starting their own? Or at least get someone from a friendly startup as resident observer for a while?
- I have been thinking about
I’d love to discuss some of these ideas with some candidates in their final round of interviews — if I get the chance. - There are some exciting changes coming to PHP-8.5 (https://php.watch/versions/8.5). Especially
|>and functions to get first and last element of an array! - Kaalu The Fifth was limping last night. I sensed some pain when she was climbing sofa. She is overweight — she likes to eat outside and neighbors are really love her! I ordered fish-oil and a few supplements for her joints.
- I rewrote my resume using LaTeX (again!). I was dreading installing the whole TexLive just to compile one page of resume, but thanks to The Tectonic Typesetting System — The Tectonic Typesetting System, the UX is much better.
- Loved the podcast https://se-radio.net/2025/06/se-radio-671-carson-gross-on-htmx/.
- Running 20 km this week looks like a challenge — one more day is left and 7 more km to run.
July 5, 2025: Weekly Note 2025/03
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