Building mobile apps is really cool! I’ve had the pleasure of working with my team on building one of them recently, been working with them for last the 4 months and now we are a couple of weeks away from the moment of truth. I thoroughly enjoy working on the complex challenge which requires you to bring all the individual elements — front-end (app), APIs, database and third-party services — together and seeing it all function in unison.
It was a week of reflection as well. I do have a bit of anger issue it would appear. A lot of that is internal facing, self-targeted (this also fuels me to work harder) but at times this spills onto others around me — which I have to be more mindful about. While you can’t take your words away, you can always be frank and honest about things and apologize when required.
Spent some experimenting with Elasticsearch and ElasticPress for one of the projects. Dabbled with it on localhost first (with Docker) and then upgraded it onto Amazon Elasticsearch Service which worked smoothly. Was pleasantly surprised the power of a plugin like ElasticPress and the value it adds to the community by it being free / open. While I would still prefer Algolia in most cases there is a time and place for something like this. I will play around with it a bit more in the future, definitely worth keeping this in your pocket.
Travelled to Pune to meet up with my sister after almost 2 months of gap due to the travel restrictions and general safety. Also, the weather in Mumbai was getting really unbearable — so Pune was a welcome change. Spent time ordering in food, cooking some at home, then movie marathons and some Geoguessr!