How’s it going, I'm a Adam, a Full-Stack Engineer, actively searching for work. I'm all about JavaScript. And Frontend but don't let that fool you - I've also got some serious Backend skills.
Location
City of Bath, UK 🇬🇧
Education
10 plus years* active enterprise development experience and a Fine art degree 🎨
I suffer largely in the organisation and get overwhelmed department, for instance Jira / Bitbucket is my worst nightmare (don't tell anyone 🤫). Who ever thought ticket numbers where a good idea... Anyway these days I work on a lot of different things across the board, In the space of 5 minutes, I will have asked myself, what was that ticket number again? It wouldn't be so bad if ticket numbers where nicknamed using a silly name generator.
How I remember stuff in a stateless way:
My 2 front door keys are identical (2fa) so I got myself little key jackets to differentiate them, the trouble with that is you end up with 2 different colour coded keys, that you still wouldn't help you know which key is for which lock, I always remember, "purple hair, green pants" to know which key is which, I can't say the same about ticket numbers unless you get a good one with a memorable number.
So let's see what else is a pain. Slack, slack is like bombardment of useful and useless information, I want to focus but I literally can't, because a channel that might have relivent information in the future just pinged me, I can't delete the channel in case, you know, I miss something. The answer to this one is probably AI, smarter notifications that work to protect me from the insanity of day to day office life, predicting my interests and what I need to know based on what I talk about the most.
I suffer largely in the organisation and get overwhelmed department, for instance Jira / Bitbucket is my worst nightmare (don't tell anyone 🤫). Who ever thought ticket numbers where a good idea... Anyway these days I work on a lot of different things across the board, In the space of 5 minutes, I will have asked myself, what was that ticket number again? It wouldn't be so bad if ticket numbers where nicknamed using a silly name generator.
How I remember stuff in a stateless way:
My 2 front door keys are identical (2fa) so I got myself little key jackets to differentiate them, the trouble with that is you end up with 2 different colour coded keys, that you still wouldn't help you know which key is for which lock, I always remember, "purple hair, green pants" to know which key is which, I can't say the same about ticket numbers unless you get a good one with a memorable number.
So let's see what else is a pain. Slack, slack is like bombardment of useful and useless information, I want to focus but I literally can't, because a channel that might have relivent information in the future just pinged me, I can't delete the channel in case, you know, I miss something. The answer to this one is probably AI, smarter notifications that work to protect me from the insanity of day to day office life, predicting my interests and what I need to know based on what I talk about the most.
There's a lot more but I'd be here all night.
Adam, thanks for sharing. It seems like you've found workarounds! I'm still working on them. Your comment made me smile!