Today was the last day of the winter 2 batch. This meant there was a big goodbye party preluded by a very nice “never graduation”-ceremony. It was a good party. I spoke to some people, that I never worked with. I enjoyed finally getting to know them at least a bit. The food was pretty good too, there was some Indian food which was delicious. I liked the mood of this goodbye party, because there was a lot of reflection going on. I think these kind of occasions allow for sharing thoughts which are not beeing said otherwise. Among these thoughts were positive and negative, but I think reflection is a good thing in both cases.

Until that it was a regular day. I continued to work on the Zulip stuff from yesterday. My first goal, which took most of my time, was to work through and polish some documentation that was created yesterday. As I was new to the content that the docs were about, I was a qualified person to answer whether this was understandable. There were some confusing parts, so I tried to make them a bit clearer. Unfortunately polishing takes a lot of time, especially for me, I do double and triple check everything. I would like to learn how to do it less perfect, but I’m happy with the outcome still.

A little pairing I did today was with Costa, who tried to configure a very minimal webserver, used for development purposes, to serve files without extension still with the text/html content-type. I couldn’t really help, because I don’t know the environment, it was a node.js package. For Python this would be easy for me, I even think I could create a webserver doing this fairly quickly. But how to do it without knowing the environment? One of those challenges again. Try to pick up the big picture as good as possible and take a decision on how things could be improved.