- My energy is coming back after a couple of weeks of mild flu like symptoms. I still have occasional cough. I have 500km left to run to complete 1000km of run this year i.e. 5 months and 500km. Not bad!
- This week was pretty boring, work-wise, routine CRUD stuff. Creating a UI that can CRUD a database properly turns out to be much harder than I expected. I am not yet sure what I did wrong. This maybe in the nature of the problem. I’ve selected a few courses/reading material on database design in hope to discover more. My working hypothesis is that it was inevitable because we simultaneously build and used the portal — waterfall model is from the days when web-development was mostly about this kind of work.
- Software Radio had a good podcast https://se-radio.net/2025/07/se-radio-679-wesley-beary-on-api-design/ this week. It covered API design in many other episodes. Also learnt about Zalando RESTful API and Event Guidelines
- I did a couple of interviews at work. One candidate was passable, but his CTC demands were way too high. Can’t blame a guy for trying!
- Please keep your JD to the point and “boring”. If you add fluff, you invite fluff! I imagine a very few engineer who enjoys development getting excited about other things. You can mention anything else at the end. Especially if you don’t want to read unrelated things in a resume, keep them out of JD as well.
- While reviewing a candidate profile, I ended up logging to leetcode after so many years. One this led to another, and I ended up doing a few problems this week. Not gonna lie, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I won’t be surprised if I end up spending more time there! That mean my project of writing a parser for netlist file will get delayed a bit.
- Read A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy by Clay Shirky, an old classic. I learnt about this article from crell blog.
August 2, 2025: Weekly Note 2025/07
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