Week 25

Monday, June 19 to Sunday, June 25

Monday

It was a holiday.

I sent this very fun indoor boulder problem https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtsMml9PS_Y/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

On Sunday, I also re-sent a local crimpy V9 for the fourth time. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ctrj5Z3vH4M/. This was my 2nd time climbing outdoors since my ACL surgery and it felt absolutely amazing to redo this problem.

Tuesday

Wednesday

I had physical therapy. Did some fun plyometric exercises, like single leg hops and box jumps.

I setup bi-weekly 1:1s with two adjacent-teammates, Zach and Kendall, to keep in closer touch with them and look out for any platform-work opportunities or blind spots.

Thursday

Had 1:1 with my manager Kaitlynne.

Converted this Wiki section of my site to no longer use a YAML file for navigation data, and instead rely on a tree data structure, derived directly from the git tree and blob data.

GET /repos/:owner/:repo/git/trees/:tree_sha returns a flat list of all the folders and files in a repository, but no contents.

curl \
  --location 'https://api.github.com/repos/thiskevinwang/public-docs/git/trees/manifestless?recursive=0'

The sha fields in the response can be used to fetch the contents, and in my case, the contents contain YAML frontmatter which has human-friendly text like title which I can use to provide a pretty label for navigation tree items.

GET /repos/:owner/:repo/git/blobs/:file_sha returns the contents of a file, base64 encoded, but when you include Accept: application/vnd.github.raw as a header, the response is returned as plaintext — Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8.

curl \
  --location'https://api.github.com/repos/thiskevinwang/public-docs/git/blobs/6d71f922a0f925d26fdf6da99d19921cf6924baf' \
  --header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.raw'

Note: See /wiki/cloud/aws/cloudfront for an additional caching layer on top of the GitHub API.

Friday

I had physical therapy. Did some more strength oriented exercises.

Got some nice shoutouts from my teammates on recent build-time optimization work for our flagship apps:

Removed legacy getInitialProps from dev-portal, in service of easier app router migration.

https://github.com/hashicorp/dev-portal/pull/2021

Sent this other fun boulder problem: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ct3EhnTPNY4/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Saturday

Came up with a nifty terminal AI zsh function:

# ~/.zshrc

# This line executes the following file, which contains
# export OPENAI_API_KEY=...
. "$HOME/.openai/credentials"

function ask() {
  mods -f "$1" | glow
}

Did more work on my personal website.

Did some wiki writing.