RC Day 08 - MVC

I think today I found a reasonable balance between pairing, attending things, and working on my own personal nerdy stuff.

• Decided to start a little earlier today and joined the early shift. Mostly we mobbed on a Rust exercise. It was fun to start my Recurse day with people instead of solo.
• Spent a bunch of time looking into a SVG-scaling-on-browser-zoom issue. Turned out to only affect Desktop Safari, and I am starting to understand why web developers don’t like Safari.
• Worked through some more of Rustlings.
• Attended “Minimum Viable Code” wherein a bunch of us sit in a zoom call and each work on the code we’ve been putting off writing. I started figuring out how to use svelte and d3 together, with the help of a bunch of blog posts. I chipped away at this some more throughout the day, and got a very boring viz to render.
• I did the above using using TypeScript rather than plain JS. I’m starting to find that sketching out types to be a very productive way for me to think about programming problems. The way I’m currently using TS, I guess that really means sketching out the data structures.
• Attended an intro to FPGAs. I definitely did not grok it, because I am not a hardware person at all, but I came away knowing more than I did.
• Listened to two awesome non-programming talks on walking the Camino, and speed reading.

Kind of excited to work on more TypeScript, d3, and svelte stuff tomorrow. Kind of equally excited to work with Rust tomorrow.

¿Porque no los dos?