Mike DiazWhat I Learned at Work this Week: Giving Hikari a Local DataSourceIt was a very big moment for me at work. Those who read last week’s post know that I was able to get an Integration Test working and, since…5 min read·Apr 14, 2024----
Mike DiazWhat I Learned at Work this Week: The Practical Value of an InterfaceI’ve been busy at work. My Python script and I have joined a new engineering team, and I stress the word team here. In my previous…4 min read·Mar 30, 2024----
Mike DiazWhat I Learned at Home this Week: Bit FieldsMost of the lessons I’ve learned at work recently have been workplace-specific terraform protocols, so they wouldn’t be terribly…5 min read·Mar 17, 2024----
Mike DiazWhat I Learned at Work this Week: Correcting my PatchesAbout a year ago, I wrote a post about patching in pytest. I created a simple patch, but ultimately wasn’t able to get it to work…5 min read·Feb 18, 2024----
Mike DiazWhat I Learned at Work this Week: Memory and Time-saving Strategies in PythonBe careful what you wish for. While I’ve spent more time writing Java, Typescript, GraphQL, and React at work, I pined for the days when my…8 min read·Jan 28, 2024----
Mike DiazWhat I Tried to Learn at Work But Had To Wait For The Break This Week: React Relay FragmentsExtremely loyal readers will remember that the company I work for has a winter break. This year, we get *five* extra days off around the…6 min read·Dec 28, 2023----
Mike DiazWhat I Learned at Work this Week: map vs flatMap with Either in JavaWhen I write Java at work, I’m frequently working with vavr’s Either class. And when I’m working with vavr’s Either class, I’m confused…4 min read·Nov 19, 2023--1--1
Mike DiazWhat I Learned at Work this Week: When onChange Doesn’t RunOver the past week, I’ve been working on a front end file upload form component. We want to be able to upload a .txt file and then read…3 min read·Nov 12, 2023----
Mike DiazWhat I Learned at Work this Week: A Tuple with One ElementThis past week, I was tagged in a Slack thread about a Python syntax issue. I read the code, commented that I couldn’t see anything wrong…3 min read·Oct 7, 2023----
Mike DiazWhat I Need to Learn for Work Next Week: It’s GraphQL TimeI am a full stack software engineer. Am I equally strong in all parts of the stack? Of course not, but I do have responsibilities on the…5 min read·Sep 24, 2023--1--1