Joel's Open Source Dev Blog

Deploying on a Thursday So Telescope 2.6.0 is dated to release on Thursday and we got a whole backlog of issues and PRs set for its milestone. As everyone gets to work on helping meet those tasks, I've done a little bit of my own to lend my hand in making the next minor version for Telescope Jr. (2.0) PR #2758 So I landed my first PR this semester, which involves just modifying a string to remove any non characters for the avatar initials on Telescope. Not gonna lie I misunderstood the issue at first and was looking too deep into it trying to figure out every use case. Dave clarified that it's not about any specific formatting and that he was just suggesting that we should eliminate any non characters so the Initials stay clean and alphabetized.  This sort of made me realize that  I've been overthinking the solutions for a lot of the issues I've been assigned to, and that can easily overwhelm the mental and really discourage you.  It's better to keep the issue at a ...

It's the 3rd week Of the semester already and  nothing is slowing down... In fact it seems like everything's picking up the pace and I'm not doing myself any favours... Telescope's has gone through an iteration ( 2.5.0 last Thursday) and I haven't gotten around to making any meaningful contributions yet. Though I haven't written or pushed any code recently, I'd like to think I'm planning out and scoping my work for it. Telescope Is a pretty big project with lots of moving parts. It's seen a major version release since I last worked on it and the architecture is always evolving. From being present in the weekly triage meetings (shoutouts to the sheriff's who have been doing a great job) and going through milestones/progress for all the areas currently being worked/developed on by our group of students/peers, it's really amazing how intricate the whole thing is. Anyways, my point about all this is not only that Telescope is an awesome project...

It's the weekend January 15, 2022. The first of my 6th semester and it is looking like a heavy one.... Though it's fine, because who's classes better to power through no other than Dave's . When I saw that there were 2 classes being delivered by Prof. Humphrey, I stood my ground on the schedule builder and waited patiently for the first moment to claim my spot in his classes.  I got into OSD700 no problem but had to apply for waitlist for the cloud computing class. To my luck, I eventually got in and acquired my carefully curated choices of 4 classes, which are very closely related in that the knowledge, and content found in each of them apply to the rest very synergistically. (P.S. the other 2 classes are Microsoft Azure Technologies, basically another alternative to AWS, and PRJ, our capstone project course in which my group are planning on building a web app) OSD700 // WINTER2022 Boy oh boy, this course is gonna really test me to my limits, I can feel it. Let's s...