I am Kisor. One attention deficit developer.

By day I work with aspnet and cloud. I tinker with other programming languages and frameworks occasionally. I will break into open source any day now.

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • kisor@programming.devtoCloud@programming.dev•50% off voucher for AWS associate exams
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    3 years ago

    It helped me. I jumped into AWS positions without any certifications. I was fine as long as I stuck what I needed to do. However, every time I had to work around a limitation of the architecture or come up with a strategy, it felt difficult as I had no context outside of the few services I touched. So I did the solution architecture cert and then the dev associate to understand how things are being planned in my project and plan and strategize better.

  • kisor@programming.devtoLifestyle and Leisure@programming.dev•What are some advantages and challenges you've experienced while working remotely?English
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    3 years ago

    I enjoyed all the 90% of pros for the first 1.5 years. Then my personality seemed to have changed over, after a bout of Covid. So I now enjoy a hybrid model, with some meticulous commute planning. I live close by, but it still takes me 30 minutes overall. However, I tune out all the traffic and enjoy self-reflection.

    Pros and Cons:

    • Picking up my kid is the only one pro I seem to like anymore.
    • I stopped having my regular walks, so I try to go at least 2 days per week.
    • Another short term con — Pushed myself to be more and more independent, making it difficult to survive in Agile software development. In the long term, this is turning out to be a pro, since I am working on my cloud and devops skills. The $company might push me out since I reject these Agile kind of roles, but it might end up helping me.
    • I have become more and more reclusive, isolated and lonely, so I go to the workplace to walk a bit, commune and retain sanity.
  • kisor@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•A 20-year-experienced CTO’s Advice “Don’t Be a Humble Developer”English
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    3 years ago

    Regarding the life is never fair thing, there is a beautiful sequence in Little Miss Sunshine that goes into this.

    Spent twenty years writing a book almost no one reads. But … he was also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he gets down to the end of his life, he looks back and he decides that all the years he suffered – those were the best years of his life. Because they made him who he was. They forced him to think and grow, and to feel very deeply. And the years he was happy? Total waste. Didn’t learn anything.

  • kisor@programming.devto.NET@programming.dev•What do you find most frustrating about .NET?
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    3 years ago

    I am a .NET dev and love the language, ecosystem, tooling and recently their open source initiatives. Few things that frustrate me. Here are my whines:

    • Naming of framework — asp.net core / asp.net could have been one word say, Katana.
    • Language features — I am still comfortable with C#6 or may be a few things from C#7. I know I do not have to use all new stuff, but I feel left out. Too much inertia as of now to get over the hump.
    • I wanted to break into GUI stuff for long time, but there is no clear path. Avalonia is good and I hope the documentation becomes good as explained by Mike in a recent podcast.
    • The company I work for has an initiative of OSP Open Source Practice. I feel bad that .NET/C# is not included in this ever. OSP only means Java, Python and probably Go. It is a nitpick, but MS has done so much to make .NET open source, yet even technology oriented companies think of MS development platform as a closed system.