Bacon? On a weekday!?
Yes. 🥓🥓🥓
What the first week as a senior software engineer actually looks like
This past week, I started a new job as a senior software engineer at Progressive Insurance (contracting via Dexian). Before starting, I read a lot of blog posts and forums online to discover what this job might be like. I wanted to know what to expect and what I could focus on to grow quickly.
So now that I’m a week in, I wanted to write my own post about what the first week is like as a senior software engineer.
Green grapes are undeniably better than red grapes. I was surprised to realize this. I think I was prejudiced against green grapes because I like red apples better than green apples.
IT FINALLY HAPPENED! I made latte art that roughly approximates a heart. I can’t believe it took me months just to get my first heart. But now that I figured out how to pour in a way to get the foam to sit on top, I’m hopeful I can get the heart mastered soon and then move on to learning the tulip.
Doing one of my favorite things today: working from a coffee shop ☕ I’m trying a cozy new spot nearby that I’ve never been to before! Their latte art game is strong and this orange-cardamom flavor is delicious. It reminds me that I have a long way to go with my lattes/art!
me: we’re going to the barber shop so I can get a haircut.
2yo daughter: I DON’T WANT TO GO TO BARBECUE SAUCE GUYS!!! 😭😭😭
I wrote Are you looking in the right places? about a month ago. The phone that inspired that essay has been missing ever since, but today my daughter pulled it out from under the fridge. I guess sometimes to find what we’re looking for, we need to stop looking so much. 🤷♂️
I came across this old roommate agreement from college 😂🤣
We definitely considered mutual back massages, I can’t remember if it ever happened though… 🤔💭
Is it normal for a toddler to want spicy pickled garlic for breakfast? 😅
I scribbled in the margins this morning that the passage below made me think of the amplifying effect of social media. But then I was struck by the idea that I might still have this Bible in 50 years. If I come across my marginalia 5 decades from now, will social media seem like a distant memory? I think so. But what will have risen in its place? It got me thinking a lot about what stands the test of time, and what doesn’t. It’s crazy to me that I can’t imagine social media, at least as it is now, being around for 50 more years, but these words are from 2,000 years ago.
Ephesians 4:17-19 NIV
[17] So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. [18] They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. [19] Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.