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Python is slow, like horrifically slow, like decoding 500 characters per 2 or so seconds slow( mind you the decoder is barely 50 lines of code) and I have to now make it concurrentable and also I have to design an interface and lets not even get to that and ( no Im not done yet) I have a physics presentation about particle physics to make and also just wandering why do we care about mesons, they disintegrate instantly we cant even use them and also how in the unholy C is virtual particles a thing, you arent supposed to create stuff out of literal nothing (yes I know they come with their anti particles but still, why?) ah also don’t get me started on the quantum tunneling thing because Mr. Hydrogen atom, you are not supposed to teleport (yes you’re just a squiggly wave function you don’t really exist at all but there is another particle you blind thing don’t crash for holyC’s sake) and that’s it I guess (yes physics suck I know also thanks for reading my rant about unholyC particle and quantum physics)

I’ll go first I guess 😬
I had so many meetings this week, could barely think or let alone write code. Back to back meetings with 5-10 minutes break to check on slack and help the team out. The worst part is that next week is no different.
I find comfort that we have some cool projects going on right now and at least I participate in designing them 😅

Yesterday I spent 2 hours stuck on a problem, turned out I was passing <code>{}</code> instead of <code>[]</code> to a function.
Then spent half a day today trying to store the chunks from a mediaRecorder and it not storing anything, only to realise that I had used the wrong Context and that I was in a Context that was hiding a dialog that had the state and it was all being torn down…
So basically sucking at React and then to top it all having to write Cypress tests on an event driven system…so fighting with race conditions fun!
Hope that makes you all feel better. hahaha.

I finally finished writing all the code to migrate all the data from an old system to the new system, and it was so irritating to work on it. It took me a full week of work just trying to figure out how to parse all the data and make sense of it.
In the end, it’s not that much data, but the amount of work it took to extract all the data, then build it up into the new format and then pushing it was just frustrating to me. There was so much business logic to take care of and other little weird behaviours. And everything was so slow to test. A full run without caching the results could easily take more than 40 minutes. Which could be worse, but doesn’t help.
Also, there were so many bits of information missing or so many bits that didn’t have the correct status, so then I had to write extra code just to figure out what it should be.
Normally, I write a nice PR message, but I was so done with it, that I didn’t even do that. I just wrote:
<blockquote>
Too much stuff
</blockquote>
And then I added some screenshots of relevant information.
Not really nice towards my coworkers, but I was so done with it. (Sorry!)
Probably the most frustrating part is that it took so much effort just for it to be run once and then never again.
So what did we learn this week? Migrating to a new system takes a lot of effort, I should probably thank my colleagues for being so nice, and I need to sleep more

I am struggling…struggling?..what is struggling?..should we struggle?..what is the thing I’m speaking of?..Is this related to topic?..Struggle?..NO?..Yes?..This comment is banned?..Mental hypnosis?..anything coming to my mind is here, isn’t it ?..I think I should stop…🤫…Is this what is struggle???…What is writing?..STOP😑