Save Your Work and Look At What You’re Doing
Tiny Learning Nugget for 1/2/22
That’s it. That’s all I’ve got for today. Save your work, before Visual Studio gives you the spinny wheel of death and you lose all your careful copy-pasting. And make sure you are, in fact, pasting into the proper files.
Okay, a teeny bit of backstory here: I’m working on my personal website. It’s very, very basic, but I’ll be blogging my triumphs and frustrations along the way — here, and, as soon as I get the backend copy-pasted properly wired-up, at the new website. (Stay tuned on where exactly to go for that. As of now, I don’t even know the domain name. All that is for another day.)
I’ve had some laughs, like when I was trying to setState in React all backwards-like and took way too long to debug the issue. I’ve had some frustrating days like today, where I’m mostly just copying over all the backend things I’ve done in the past, piecing together some very basic methods, and hoping it all runs.
It should be fun, though, for others (hi!) to see and for me to revisit when I inevitably get stuck on the same problem six months or a year from now.
Key #1 to Software Engineering: don’t be a doofus. Save, and pay attention to what you’re actually doing.
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