a (productive) week working and living in nyc 9-5 tech job 👨🏾‍💻

[Music] had to throw the beanie on cuz got a little chilly and I got out the shower not that long ago so my hair's still wet today's Monday guys I wanted to actually like talk through some of the things I'm working on for work in my last work week in my life I kind of talked about my work from a higher level perspective but today I could talk about it from a more granular level so right now I'm working on unit testing for our Dev phone product that our team owns and this is why I still consider myself a software engineer my job title is developer Advocate but 50% of my job is software engineering focused some quarters it's like 75% of my work is is solely focused on maintaining our Dev phone or adding new features I don't have a ton of experience with unit testing so I've been leaning on some of our software Engineers for help with how to start like what Frameworks and libraries are most popular and easier to use for a mono repo Library so right now I'm looking at just and Vite which are testing Frameworks along with react testing Library our goal is to have 50% test coverage so I found this really cool tool called istano which is a JavaScript code coverage tool that tracks which parts of your code have executed unit tests or executed by unit [Music] test help [Music] us [Music] all right what's up everyone today's Tuesday and I had a few meetings this morning did a recovery run have a basketball game today at 9:15 but had a really productive day had a great conversation with one of our ux designers and it was just nice to be able to have a conversation with a ux designer on like a different team well there's no ux designers on our on our team anyway so it was nice just interacting with a ux designer to talk through some developer experience and user experience along with some research and then we also had our department-wide all hands the first one this year and energy was really good and it's always refreshing to have like those department meetings have really good energy especially when you see some of your close co-workers in those meetings that you don't normally get a chance to interact with on like a even weekly basis and everyone's kind of together now I'm about to make lunch a really late lunch and we've been cooking our meals with hellofresh hellofresh with it I never thought I would be interested in like prepackaged meals but I love it it prevents us from spending extra money at the grocery store when we don't need to or eating out especially since we've been really focused on making our own [Music] meals [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] a all right so I decided to walk to a cafe and um it's blue hour so it looks really cinematic and I'm also going to Peak design to get another tripod cuz I need a like more portable tripod so I'm going to check out their carbon fiber tripod and their aluminum tripod but they're both basically like travel tripods that are easier to carry around I only have two layers on right now now and I'm sweating so today's like the first semiwarm day and probably like at least a week and I didn't really know how to dress I only wore two layers cuz I thought I'd be hot cuz I sweat easily and thankfully only wore two layers I'm going to try to find a coffee shop so I can do a little bit of react programming with uh testing libraries I talked to by yesterday and then I also have some video editing do to do for this event I did a few months ago with a really cool brand that I've always been fond [Music] of I wanted to try out some of your tripods yeah okay um is outside of the weight is there any other difference like the release plates are the same and the legs kind of fun the same as well so you pull down on this twist and out comes the phone mount ni and so once you get out of there let's pull this open F that in and then you can attach in phone oh that was quick that was super quick wow that's way better what I've been doing and the head turns in like each Direction too yeah so pretty much on one side you're going going to be able to rotate it [Music] me good morning guys so today's is Wednesday I got up really early I honestly just couldn't sleep past like 6:15 which is really early for me so I decided to just get up because I know that if I would have went back to sleep I would have woke up even more exhausted it so I'd rather be tired midday than exhaust it in the beginning of the day so I decided to stretch I've been using this app called pliability on the pixel um it's this really like calm and immersive stretching app and I stretch for 23 minutes which is like a really long time but I had a basketball game yesterday I have to probably run for like 60 70 minutes today so I need to make sure that I'm feeling good and mobile also I love stretching because it gives me time to be more present I I don't I don't love stretching I love when I do stretch like that I like the benefits that stretching gives you nonetheless I have Spanish lessons today so um I have to finish up my homework and I've been learning Spanish ESP mucho and I've been taking Spanish lessons weekly and I can already see a difference I'm learning some cool idioms like espano espano so basically said that when I run 10 miles it's a piece of cake another idiom I learned Isis which means you're my other half so excited to keep learning Spanish I want to become fluent one day so I have to get out of my comfort zone so right now I'm watching an easy Spanish lesson and I'm doing some chunking homework which basically means I'm taking verbs that I don't know words that I don't know and then I'm writing them down and then writing them down in a sentence to help remember them that was looking crazy and last shot definitely not one of my better angles but I want to get more comfortable talking to the camera and just having these more like lowkey sections in the video where we're just having a conversation and definitely comment below if you enjoy when I just chat because I enjoy watching other people chat but as a videographer and cinematographer my highest priority is always like keeping you engaged and filming really cool BAU segments which are dope but I think the values probably from the conversational [Music] piece uh Le EST or ER m see um it was super funny I started doing this new stretch routine oh wow new bands okay nice so I found this Tik Tock video on how to warm up before you work out cuz a lot of people don't work out warm up and I was one of those people and I used to always get hurt but but I stick to this same I think it's total of five exercises five stretches active stretches it totals to 50 reps and since then I've just been a lot more mobile and I haven't gotten injured also haven't strained and like tried to overexert myself with lifting anymore and focus more on having good reps and Mobility actually I lied it's seven exercises and it's 70 reps all right I got no headphones might just have to Thug it out at least for the pull-ups all right for those of you all who are curious today's pool a day for one but also the workout is called it's either ultimate conditioning or horsepower I honestly can't remember I I'll just screenshot it to the right of me but we have wide grip pull-ups three sets of 10 I already did two sets I only showed you in my second so I'm out of breath some lateral raises t- bar rows but we're going to replace those with regular barbell rows spider curls resistant band tricep extensions and then the Killer is the 10 sets of 10 dead lifts which I got to be careful because I'm probably going to run like six or seven miles today so I got to take it easy [Music] so I decided to get out of the house and I needed it it was so snowy and icy and just freezing like you know in New York you used to walking around and being uncomfortable but walking around in 20° weather with snow everywhere on the sidewalks is not fun but I'm in Prospect Heights about to go to Hungry Ghost you guys know it's like my favorite coffee shop at this point coffee shop I'm going to be working on some react programming and I also need to finish up this edit um but yeah just it's a good day it's 45° so I'm just happy like that the weather's bearable enough to take a walk [Music] [Music] first [Music] h [Music] some days it's hard to be productive at home it just is or hard to be motivated and stay focused so sometimes you just need a change of scener [Music] all [Music] have [Music] to go and that's what's important to remember [Music] this [Music] yeah [Applause] [Music] wow [Music] so it's nice to be able to actually do [Music] this today's Friday and I don't know if you guys can hear me cuz I don't have my microphone but we picked up our bibs near the Golden Gate Bridge it's not called goting e bridge probably honestly don't know the name of it more beautiful locations on the water and I'm excited feel good we got massages yesterday to loosen up 2 days before the race and uh now we're about to grab some food and then uh walk around San Francisco hit a few shops and just you know just enjoying being in Cali right [Music] babe [Music] [Music] right now because of the the okay I spend so much money I'm like all right t- minus how many hours from race day 13 14 15 15 these don't have any sugar no sugar living alone Diaries yeah right what was the other place uh yeah new yor would have kept it no matter what I think yeah oh this does go slow where you guys want to go I don't know we might just drive around be mad at cuz you wear outdoor stuff and don't Outdoors outdoor stuff pants the gem was just right all right it's 8:43 they cancel the race but I'm forcing Julian to run outside set up Orange Theory to callous to callous our minds let me try open this is good oh yeah this is good counter so it's [Music] like [Music] I order this na I was like maybe we didn't order no you trying to cross [Music] somebody