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Weekly Dev Work Check-In – [Week 24 | 10–13 June 2025]

Weekly Dev Work Check-In – [Week 24 | 10–13 June 2025]

Ana Jesus / June 13, 2025

Learning

I’m trying to stay consistent and complete at least one lesson a day.
Here are my current ZTM streaks:

Today is the 60 day of learning. The last long streak I had was until 61 ^-^. I want to reach 75 so I can get my new badge.

Courses

1. Career Accelerator with TechTalk This is a 9-hour course. I took a lot of time to do one pillar (there are 5 ) because I'm listening and actively doing every step: searching and improving. I hope to finish it before going on holiday. wrote 4 CVs for possible roles wrote a network and job tracker with example templates.

2. How To Make Beautiful Charts In Next.js I'm middle way.

3. Headless cms for my posts I saw a lot of people implemented Wixstudio to their website so I watched some videos about it.

Projects:

Reading Bot

This week I continue building the bot. It has 15 commands. I tested it and finally hosted it. My very extended manual testing: Reading bot testing commands and flow Details

After hosting I wanted to try the bot in the actual server I'm going to use (or I would like to use it). I asked the server admin and she allowed me. She also asked for more features.

The Bot is live and it does not work. O.o Possible problem: I cheat the system with a web service instead of a background worker.

Web services and background workers are distinct concepts with different purposes in software development. Web services facilitate communication between different applications or systems over a network, often using standardized protocols like HTTP. Background workers, on the other hand, are internal processes within an application that run independently to perform tasks in the background, such as processing jobs or handling events.

Why I'm putting so much effort on it:

I added a bunch of commands to solve real problems I face during my reading readathons on Discord:

  • We usually use generic bots, not reading-specific ones.
  • We do daily reading sprints, so I wanted to streamline the process.
  • Users always have to tell me their start/end pages or percentages — now the bot handles that.

This week:

  • Where to host Reading bot.
  • Sketch out user flow before adding more commands
  • Whether it works on other Discord servers.

Books around the world

Currently, I’m migrating this project to Next.js and applying everything I’ve learned. After checking the list from the previous week I realize I need to make an easy checklist of all the tasks and not only the issues.

Others

Job Applications:

  • Total applications: 1 Rejection: 0 Answers: 0
  • Outreach: 2 Answers: 0
  • Connected with people on LinkedIn I re-wrote the CV and now I have 4 distinct roles.

In the course career acceleration, the instructors say you need to apply for between 10-20 jobs a week and for each you should reach out to 5 people. All the jobs I see are overwhelming but step by step I find a good job description. For those, I add it to my trackers and do the exercises for the course. Now I'm on the 5th part of the course - the interview. I like that my course has a checklist for all the things I need to say, ask and know. Just takes a lot of time to write down and think about it. I will continue this part next week.

Favourites/one of the Week:

I'm watching the last season of Silicon Valley and I'm on the part when Richard discovers that the gaming company is recording data including audio. This made me think about this visuallization.

Personal Reflections:

This week I worked 4 days (Monday was a holiday).

Done:

  • Redo my CV, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile based on the current career course.
  • Create a proper user flow for the reading bot, adjust the logic, and test it.
  • Organize my obsidian notes -- looks better.

Goals for Next Week:

  • Ask for feedback - cv.
  • Apply for 4 jobs and reach out to 3 new people.
  • Prepare for the interview.
  • PRISMA
  • Finish the YouTube video on Recharts and try implementing it.
  • Fix ReadingBot and reach out for help. Learn more about the web server and background workers.
  • built the flow of the Books website and how it should be implemented next.

Goals for Next Next Next Week :

  • Finish migrating the Books website and start the refactoring process.
  • Use Figma for a redesign of a new website (so many updates — curious to see what’s new).
  • CI/CD, workflows, tests, backend
  • (...and the list goes on 😅)