I finished my git log --graph tutorial and started working on the next tutorial. I have two more to complete before I move on to more interesting projects.
Personally, I feel comfortable with my new habits and now I'm starting to think about long-term goals I want to accomplish. I have my goals for 2021, but I'm feeling a bit more ambitious.
Project Progress
| Project Week | Project Hours |
|---|---|
| Mon, Mar 1 - Sun, Mar 7 | 2.5 |
The git log --graph tutorial was an interesting one. I inadvertently exposed myself to how other developers work and saw something that made sense to me. It was the way the Automapper repository structured merging in changes to the master branch. The maintainer of the repo (Jimmy Bogard) only merged in changes into master with merge commits. I looked at some other popular open source projects and I didn't see this. Of course, it depends on the style of the person managing the repo. I liked what I saw, because it was clearly structured. If I didn't create this tutorial (which I considered not doing) then I wouldn't have come across that. I also wouldn't have seen something that I liked and taken it with me. I've read that writing about things that you think you know, can create a better understanding of what you are writing about. I didn't expect that kind of spontaneous learning, but I'm glad that I experienced it.
Life
I've been recently thinking about the habits I have been developing and why I am developing them. I mainly wanted to get into the habit of accomplishing small goals that I set, by being consistent. I feel I've accomplished establishing a habit of consistency. The consistency of chipping away at a problem with very little time. Two and half hours a week, seems so small, but I can clearly see that it is powerful when I'm focused and consistent. I'm getting that feeling when I took some of my first computer science courses at university. I feel like I can do anything. It's a good feeling that's prompted me to think more about what I want out of life.