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When I first started doing this kind of thing, there were like two Tory Lawsons on the internet, one of whom was I think actually a Victoria. Now there are lots of us, and I am sorry if you were looking for one of the other ones. We have an annual retreat in Santa Fe, so if you want to get a hold of one of the others, let me know.
I found myself this past weekend with an unused month of personal Copilot tokens and a dream: code up a Visual Studio Code extension that would take my tortured, bizarre, etc. notes to new depths of over-engineering.. Fifty percent of my quota later, I now have a Textmate grammar for the language, extensions to the language that make it capable of expressing basically everything going on in my life in a single tree, syntax highlighting and checking in VS Code, a panel that shows open to-do items with a button that lets me sync my notes to GitHub, and maybe one or two other things I've forgotten in my excitement.
Continue reading →I suspect you have some small scraps of time during your workday in order to try to learn a subject that seems insurmountably large. The first suggestion I would make is to adopt a time management process, particularly the Pomodoro Technique, which allows you to break up large tasks into small ones and make the most of small, discrete chunks of time.
Second, you need to know what you will tackle in those small chunks of time. I’m sure there are other ways of breaking it up, but I might break learning test automation into these broad parts...
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