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Developer Diaries 11
Last month was pretty busy with new AI changes almost every hour. Everyone is either scared of what might happen, if we lose our jobs, or if humanity might get destroyed or enjoying the ride, being excited about the stuff that happens so fast and not engaging with the fear and certainty around it.
Iâd like to be part of group 2 and wrote a blog post around this topic: AI will make our jobs easier and not replace them.
Iâm really curious how all of this will turn out. If youâre interested in reading a few interesting and inspiring blog posts about this, hereâs a small list:
- Neither artificial, nore intelligent Opens in new tab
- Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down Opens in new tab
- I for one welcome our GPT overlords co-workers Opens in new tab
- The Age of AI has begun Opens in new tab
- WHy ChatGPT Won't Replace Coders Just Yet Opens in new tab
đšđ»âđ» Work
Work-wise this month was quite diversified. I liked it a lot. I refactored a big project to use TypeScript everywhere, which felt amazing. It made me more confident to apply changes to the project. Iâve done some rather complex stuff in this project and used plain JavaScript.
I donât know how I managed to not break too much without using the proper types. But now it feels much safer and better to implement new features.
On another project, I built features for a client that users had wished for a long time. It felt really good to finally be able to give them the things they were missing and to make both the client and the users happy.
Besides that, Iâm integrating AI in the form of Chat-GPT and GitHub Copilot more and more into my workflow. Itâs great to explore the possibilities to make my work more productive. I will write a more in-depth blog post about this soon.
đ Blog Posts of the Month
I had a lot of fun writing blog posts last month. So here is the list of the posts of March 2023:
- What is prop drilling and how to avoid it
- AI will make our jobs easier and not replace them
- Developer Diaries 10
The prop drilling post is one Iâve had for a long time in my backlog. I had the basic idea for it, but only last month did I get inspired by a lot of discussion around the topic and finally write about it. So Iâm pleased about that one.
The one about AI not taking our jobs was one of my most spontaneous ones. As I already wrote in the introduction of this post, itâs the hot topic number one, and all the news around made me write down my thoughts about it.
đ TIL Posts of the month
Here are the Today-I-learned posts of March 2023:
đĄ Life
We had a weekend getaway to the Lake of Constance. Unfortunately, the weather was typical April weather, so we had everything from rain, storm, and sunshine to cloudy. But that didnât bother us too much. We had a great time eating good food, walking along the lakeside, and just hanging out on our hotel balcony, reading.
Sometimes we donât need to go too far to have a good time. Just a small change of scenery is enough to shake things up, get inspired again, and change curtains.
đđ»ââïž Fitness
No longer living in a crowded city surrounded by hills means Iâm having fun running again. In only 20 minutes, Iâm in the forest, which feels so good.
I ran over 15km for the first time in ten years and had no knee pain. What an achievement.
I also love the combination of bodyweight strength workouts 2x a week and filling the rest of the week with what I want to do spontaneously and depending on the time I have, like core workouts, pilates, running, and biking. The combination of everything that I enjoy is great.
đ Reading
I managed to finish two books this month:
A book about people living on a small island on the north coast of Germany, who have the typical struggles of people in general and a lot of lessons on life are told. Great book!
The third book of the Power of the Dog series. I read the first two last year and anticipated reading the last one of the series because I didnât want it to end. I almost couldnât put the book aside. Itâs cruel and brutal to read but also, on the other hand, very thrilling.
đčVideo Games
I saw a video of the new Zelda game for the Switch and dug back onto Breath of the Wild. I played it the last time in November of 2018. Crazy!
đPodcasts
Listened to an episode of Wesâ and Scotts Podcast Syntax.fm Opens in new tab. A person asked if they could learn web dev at the age of 47, which was super interesting to listen to.
- Potluck Ă Learning Web Dev Ă Video Streaming Ă Mono Repos https://syntax.fm/show/591/potluck-learning-web-dev-video-streaming-mono-repos Opens in new tab
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