Just want to say thank you! I started my tech career entirely in the sysadmin and netadmin side of things and mostly plugged away at code in my free time. Enough that back when I did it, I was competent enough and comfortable enough to not be worried. Since then I've spent 7 years doing field service work for tech adjacent industries and one very tech related industry. It left me feeling really out of the loop over the years, but I tried to track enough to at least know the current terminology, even without an understanding of it.
With that said, I've been left feeling rather helpless these past weeks as I watched the company change hands, the lead developer for the every codebase for everything leave, new guy come in for one small part of it. It's been a very unique few weeks to say the least. I ended up inheriting AWS in it's entirety (serverless is a thing as I've learned), the API as it stands, a project to localize the API with a backend and frontend entirely for locations without internet, and then the project to move all of the previous to the web in whatever fashion I see fit. A lot to be given after years of inactivity.
I can say that the number of times I had more than 20 tabs open in any browser was measured under 50 in the last 15 years, but these past 3 weeks I've had upwards of 30 in 2 separate windows just for questions and manuals, github repos and gists, and a ton of dev.to posts. Finally tonight, I hit a milestone. At last I pushed my 5th or 6th rev of the api where I'm mostly satisfied with the base it's at now (minimum viable instead of complete at their request, but with a completed db since I don't want to revisit that).
As I was closing out tabs I came across this post, finally reading it after who knows how long since I'd sent it from my phone to my PC. It just reminded me that admitting I'm outdated and asking questions is not bad in our world. It may be in the grand, commercialized, top tier exec side, but not in the dev world. It's something I had entirely forgotten and I'm tremendously thankful that you posted about your experience here. After reading this I forwarded off some questions to the only other devs within the company to ask their opinions, thoughts, and ideas on how to proceed for a couple of things. It felt good to finally ask for help instead of slogging through tab after tab with search after search in hopes of finding the answer eventually.
Hi John! It makes me very happy to read that my blog helped you conquer this hurdle in these difficult times. I can imagine the load you must feel on your shoulders now. But it's indeed a very good thing you reached out to your fellow devs and asked them for help.
I do think tho, that this should not only be normal in our dev world, but also in all other fields.
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Just want to say thank you! I started my tech career entirely in the sysadmin and netadmin side of things and mostly plugged away at code in my free time. Enough that back when I did it, I was competent enough and comfortable enough to not be worried. Since then I've spent 7 years doing field service work for tech adjacent industries and one very tech related industry. It left me feeling really out of the loop over the years, but I tried to track enough to at least know the current terminology, even without an understanding of it.
With that said, I've been left feeling rather helpless these past weeks as I watched the company change hands, the lead developer for the every codebase for everything leave, new guy come in for one small part of it. It's been a very unique few weeks to say the least. I ended up inheriting AWS in it's entirety (serverless is a thing as I've learned), the API as it stands, a project to localize the API with a backend and frontend entirely for locations without internet, and then the project to move all of the previous to the web in whatever fashion I see fit. A lot to be given after years of inactivity.
I can say that the number of times I had more than 20 tabs open in any browser was measured under 50 in the last 15 years, but these past 3 weeks I've had upwards of 30 in 2 separate windows just for questions and manuals, github repos and gists, and a ton of dev.to posts. Finally tonight, I hit a milestone. At last I pushed my 5th or 6th rev of the api where I'm mostly satisfied with the base it's at now (minimum viable instead of complete at their request, but with a completed db since I don't want to revisit that).
As I was closing out tabs I came across this post, finally reading it after who knows how long since I'd sent it from my phone to my PC. It just reminded me that admitting I'm outdated and asking questions is not bad in our world. It may be in the grand, commercialized, top tier exec side, but not in the dev world. It's something I had entirely forgotten and I'm tremendously thankful that you posted about your experience here. After reading this I forwarded off some questions to the only other devs within the company to ask their opinions, thoughts, and ideas on how to proceed for a couple of things. It felt good to finally ask for help instead of slogging through tab after tab with search after search in hopes of finding the answer eventually.
Thanks again for your post,
John
Hi John! It makes me very happy to read that my blog helped you conquer this hurdle in these difficult times. I can imagine the load you must feel on your shoulders now. But it's indeed a very good thing you reached out to your fellow devs and asked them for help.
I do think tho, that this should not only be normal in our dev world, but also in all other fields.