The feeling of unease

Hi,

Another week of interesting interviews and the first task. After roughly 5 months without doing any frequent or serious coding, tackling the first task is a bit rough. It’s not that I’m unable to do it. The challenge is to get into the mindset and get the engine going again.

For example, just the act of setting up a placeholder project in Typescript with all the usual tooling has been tedious. I don’t know if it’s a testament to the tooling situation in the JavaScript world, just me being rusty, or both. The good thing is that I can reuse it for the next ones.

Is coding like riding a bike? With more lines of code under my belt, I feel faster, more into it, so there must be some truth in it. Interestingly, I haven’t missed coding one bit, there was no passion to do big side projects and code for hours, and it’s fine.

This month, my focus has shifted significantly and with it my thoughts, they're all about finding a job in the immediate future. It’s surprising how that thought overpowers almost every other. It’s an instinct of survival really, and with it comes the natural anxiety, the feeling of unease. My framing of it is that this uneasiness is my mind pointing me to what’s important, alerting me to the threat of running out of money and pushing me to act.

This week’s briefer:

• Are you prioritising faster delivery with your Agile adoption? Don’t

• To Create Great Content, Embrace Process, Not Projects

• Developer Experience Challenges in Non-Tech Enterprises