Brittbot

Upgrading from Data Center Tech to Software Engineer

A black woman with natural hair writing a blog post while she sits at her desk inside her apartment.

Returning From Break

—

by

Brittany Gates
in

I’m returning from break to writing blog posts again! While I missed providing new content for my readers, the nearly four months away did help with my hectic schedule. I’ll explain what I accomplished during my break, along with my new posting schedule.

What I Accomplished While On Break

  • Stopped reading Algorithms Illuminated Part 1: The Basics by Tim Roughgarden because it was too advanced for me. Instead, I need to start with a book about the basics of algorithms. (However, I was able to create my own version of the Karatsuba Multiplication Algorithm which is available to download from my GitHub repo.)
  • Did a deep-dive about Bootstrap’s Utilities, and implemented those changes on all three of my Web Apps.
  • Refreshed my JavaScript skills using MDN Web Docs to fix some of the Front-End issues with my Web Apps. You know, addEventListener is a pretty nifty tool. So is document.querySelector.
  • Revisited Nodejs and Express because I wanted to recreate my Web Apps in JavaScript. Only completed one conversion before I got fed up with server-side JavaScript and went back to Python.
  • Improved my knowledge of Flask by learning about Blueprints and implementing those in my Web Apps.
  • Started building a blogging website, but realized I needed to refresh my database skills.
  • Learned PostgreSQL by reading Practical SQL by Anthony DeBarros. (I highly recommend this book!)
  • Got the idea to create a CLI To-Do list using PostgreSQL as the database.
  • Read the documentation about argparse and Psycopg for a long time (probably hours).
  • Created TaskDB using my new argparse, Psycopg, and PostgreSQL skill-sets.
  • Used Gemini a bunch to refine my code, ask questions, and learn new programming techniques.

As you can see and read as I’m returning from break I was quite busy in my self-study endeavors. I thought about writing all the stuff I learned and did at work, but some of it I can’t talk about so I decided against it. Just know that I was quite busy there too as I had various projects regarding network equipment and/or fiber to deploy and/or audit. Google needs more Trillium Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) since users love Veo 3 and Flow.

My New Posting Schedule

Although I’m returning from break, I’m still busy at work. In addition, I haven’t let up from my self-study since I still want to get a Software Engineering job. Yet, I won’t let that stop me from posting new content on this website. I’ll just post a new post (or two) every Monday at 6 AM EST.