Showing posts with label pull request. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pull request. Show all posts

Monday, April 23, 2018

Added an HTML Escape keyboard shortcut to turbo-javascript Atom Text Editor package


A little bit of tinkering in Coffee script to make it simpler to type <%= %> in EJS and other template packages.  It works for me, so I cloned the source code from git and sent a pull request on a proposed branch.  It took two pomodoros away from my studies, but I think it's worth it in the time and effort and frustration it will save me.  Also, it's neat to tinker with a package to make it better — there's value in it for its own sake.

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

First Successful Pull Request

The last three weeks have seen my eleventh pomodoro cycle (1,100 completed), and my first as an intern at Gleam.io.  My learning curve is very steep, for it includes, amongst other things:
  • A new IDE. (Rubymine instead of Atom)
  • Tighter security settings around my Github account, which is rather a good thing.
  • Getting a large and complicated server with many dependencies running on my machine.
  • Getting a new System76 Gazelle Linux box. (Amazing!)
  • Writing RSpecs at a level of complexity far above anything I've learned.
  • Using Rubocop — really not hard, I actually quite like it.
Edging out the excitement of my very own System76 laptop — I've been on cloud nine since Gleam.io generously purchased it for me — is my first successful pull request.

To a seasoned programmer, it was a small thing, but it is a momentous occasion for me.

And may it be the first of many.

1,050 hours

It took me 13 working days to complete my first 100 "work" pomodoros as a Junior Software Tester at Profectus Group.  Much of ...