💭Faith and 💻Computer Science

Nathaniel Louis Tisuela — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:40:42 +0000

👋 Hey guys! As a Computer Science major and a Christian, I'm wondering how your personal beliefs (whether you're religious, atheist, or agnostic) directly affect your career, and how they are/aren't expressed in what you do in your industry.

Rephrases of what I'm asking:

💭 | 💻 Do you keep your personal beliefs separate from work? Is it appropriate for them to intersect?
💭 --> 💻 Does your faith fuel or inspire you to code? Is that even possible in this kind of industry?
💭 --> 💻, 👩‍🚒, 🤼 How do you express who you are when you program, choose your job or interact with teammates?

When Plans don't Last

Nathaniel Louis Tisuela — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 03:52:57 +0000

I'm pretty new to things. I'm a college student who, unfortunately, is still lacking in real-world experience. From personal branding to creating web applications, I find myself trying to plan far into the future. I want what I do now to be sustainable as things change, and scalable as things get bigger.

However, I keep finding that the plans I invested in not too long ago need change. The work I did before seems to be for naught.

My mess-ups

Working on my own personal branding has unearthed problems. Small things, they add up. I wish I used my full name on this media platform, or I wish I had published that project under this link. I've missed the opportunity to streamline how people get to know me by staying under one familiar name.

When I started all those accounts, I thought I was thinking about the future. My planning wasn't thorough.

Productivity

~~import marshmallow~~
~~import pydantic~~
~~import graphene~~

The biggest personal project I've worked on is CourseCake.

I thought I had read up enough about Flask, knew enough about python to go ahead with the project and not expect major rewrites. In each rewrite I made, I tried to plan better. But I still found myself making huge changes -- whether it be for better user interaction or scalability, I believed in my head that this was the last change.

This led me to a question: Is excessive planning bad for productivity? The time I've spent rewriting could have gone towards building cool, useful, new features.

I'm learning that I'm learning

I find myself asking the wrong question. It's not Planning vs Productivity, it's me vs The Problem.

The big thing about me is that my mind is small -- I don't know enough. I make mistakes that are costly, but that's learning. These mistakes I made aren't so much about planning, but not knowing enough. They could have been avoided had I taken the time to explore new things and networked with the right people.

So yeah, I hope that as I gain experience, my plans will become more sturdy.

Peace with Uncertainty

As a programmer, I want to be able to anticipate all the problems. I want to write all the test cases I can with 100% coverage. This COVID-19 season has taught me there are just things you can't anticipate -- you need to be willing to change.

This is the part that is beyond development. I don't like the fact that the plans I made of where I'd be today were so far off the reality. And I don't like the possibility that my plans can fall through again. But this is the reality, and in the scope of things, I'm doing ok.

Not sure how this is for a first blog post, but I want to push my thought processes out there, even if it's only for my own processing.

Peace be with you~

Hello World

Nathaniel Louis Tisuela — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 23:36:15 +0000

It's Thursday!