My February ‘24 in Review

February has come to an end. It’s time to take a brief look back.

Overall, it was a rather uneventful month. I hardly noticed the leap day; it was just another day.

On a personal note, I attended a few birthday parties this month. I also visited some doctors. I spent a few days in bed with a cold, but I went to the doctors to have veins in my nose cauterized (no more nosebleeds, finally!) and to check my blood levels for vitamins. I had been meaning to do this for a while, but now that I’m hardly eating dairy products, it’s time to see if I need to supplement anything. A quick way to get medical appointments is through my health insurance’s appointment service. I just fill out an online form, and the service finds practices and arranges an appointment, usually quite promptly.

Work-wise, I’m having a pretty good phase. I’m very productive, implementing one complex story after another. It’s fun, and I feel like I can unleash my potential. Especially SQL is enjoyable when I can move a lot of logic from the application into the database with a view, which handles large amounts of data much more efficiently, leading to fewer timeouts.

Besides, I’ve gotten a bit more accustomed to Microsoft’s Copilot this month. Especially since the top search results nowadays are just generic SEO trash, it’s a good help to sometimes efficiently get the information you’re actually looking for. At least, when Copilot doesn’t repeat the ad trash. At work, I also have access to Azure OpenAI Service, and the AI sometimes helps me with brainstorming solutions or even implements some things directly. However, I hope it will be a long time before AI replaces my entire job, or maybe it never will because I will have evolved by then too.

Let’s see what March brings …

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