# Tech Thoughts

- Ui > data aggregations > data
- New ui via more than mouse clicks

## Tech Talk

- **My Favorite software Tool**
  - Nx
- **Badass Developers**
  - **Simon Bohlin**
  - **Ryan Chambers**
  - **Mike Yuan**
- **Why Do this**
  - Doing this for you just as much as it is for me.
- **Who am I?**
  - **Background**
    - Harry Liu, software developer from Toronto, Canada.
    - 2013 - 2017 - Studied Civil Engineering and worked.
    - 2018 - 2019 - Self studied software engineering.
    - 2019 - 2023 - Software consultant for CAPCO.
    - 2022 - Meet Kristina.
    - 2023 - 2024 - Career break.
    - 2024 - 2025 - Software consultant for Tretton37.
    - present - Software consultant for ELVA11.
    - **Anecdotes**
      - Realized the industry was not for me and was eventually forced to quit after having my license suspended driving to a site.
      - Self studied software engineering 2017-2019 Why? Because I was pretty damn good in highschool and uni.
      - Was definitely a subject that I really enjoyed but did not realize could be a career.
      - Meant to switch in University but terrible at taking proactive decisions for the distant future.
- **Flexibility**
  - Nice to work on code with NO consequences
  - Liberty to code how you want and able to choose the technologies that you enjoy using or want to learn
- **Internal Projects**
  - **Employee Handler**
    - **Tretton**
      - Leet Signatures
      - Growing Scope
        - GDPR
        - Intergration between different systems. Google Workspace, AlexisHR, Cinode..
        - Creating Reports
      - What I learned:
        - Refactoring a JS project to TS.
        - Documentation
        - Error Logging
        - Handling Data flows
    - **Bankruptcy**
      - How not to name things
      - How to refactor tightly coupled code so that it can be reused at another company.
    - **ELVA11**
      - Absence Calendar Syncs
      - Natnok
      - Eliminator
- **What I learned/Why I like internal work:**
  - Being a badass like Simon Bohlin
  - Being a consultant on project or off.
  - Freedom to code how you like
    - Exercise coding and being able to write it at a leisurely pace.
    - Choosing your own stack and learning the technologies you want to learn.
    - Able to perform under little to no pressure or stress, setting your own expectations and deadlines.
  - Learning
    - Learning code in whatever direction you like
    - Beauty of simple interfaces/contracts
    - How to architect code implementations
    - Building R&D skills
- **What a consultant means to me**
  - Solving problems with the tools and resources you have at hand.
- **Give thanks**
  - Inspiring/awesome coworkers.
  - Environment to write the code I enjoy writing.

- Sustainability
  - Agnostic
  - Reusable.
  - Simple implementation.