I have had one major problem with my website for the past month that I keep putting off fixing. And that is, I did not have a proper RSS feed until now. I finally sat down at my computer to fix it. Posts should now also be syndicating to Micro.blog.
Done with work for the week and I have off on Monday!
I learned so much more about Laravel this week. Mainly about:
I purchased an office chair off Facebook marketplace today. I got a great deal!
I officially launched Sublime Blogs!
Baguette mouse, anyone?
The power went out this morning so I had to go to Panera to work. It was my first day at my new job. It was a great day!
I purchased a motorized standing desk yesterday off Facebook Marketplace. Loving it so far! I will post a photo as soon as I get all my wires cleaned up.
Imposter syndrome is definitely something I struggle with. I get my workflows and software all setup and then I see someone else using a different setup and I rethink everything. This, coupled with the fact that I like new shiny software, causes me to constantly reconsider my software suite.
For right now, I’m using Bear for all of my note taking and for writing blog posts. It’s working well so far. I may switch to Nota when my current yearly Bear subscription runs up. We will see.
I want to share what The LORD has done in my life over the last few days.
For the past few months, I have been struggling to know where to go with my career. I taught myself Laravel and the TALL stack and I was doing some freelance work. My mom kept suggesting that I get a job working for someone who could mentor me.
We were discussing my options (going to school, freelancing, or applying for a junior web developer job) on Thursday night after I got back from my job at the church. These conversations were a regular occurrence. We prayed about it that night.
On Friday around 1 pm, I got a text from my cousin. It was a screenshot of an email he had gotten from Jacob Bennett. It read
Hey,
Was looking to talk to your brother Luke but haven’t been able to find a way to get in touch with him. It’s regarding a possible position to work in Laravel at our company https://wilbergroup.com in Illinois, remote position of course. I’ve been watching some of the things he’s been working on, https://sublimeblogs.com/ for example and think he would make a great junior developer! Haven’t had any luck finding him but stumbled across your email and thought maybe you could either forward this to him or send me his email so I can contact him directly.
Thanks for any help!
Jake Bennett
I immediately called my cousin and asked him to forward me the email. I email Jake and told him I was interested and gave him my phone number. He called me a little while later. He asked me a few questions and I walked him through Sublime Blogs.
Jake said he had been trying to get in contact with me for the past 10 days but he could not find any contact information. (That is something I will need to add to my website.)
I had an interview with him and his supervisor on Monday. It was a hour and a half and it went very well. They asked me a lot of personal questions and not very many technical ones.
Later that day, Jake texted me and we setup a time that afternoon for the technical interview. He sent me some of the PHP classes he had written and asked me to read through it and explain what the code did.
That evening I had an offer in my inbox. This is what my parents and I had been praying about and so I immediately accepted, with the understanding I would need to wrap up other projects.
It is amazing how God works! The best part about this job is that my supervisors are Christians. I get to work under like-minded people. I’m very excited to start part-time on the 16th and then move to full-time next month.
It so encouraging when God answers your prayers so clearly!
Today I worked on the documentation for Sublime Blogs as well as the privacy policy. I’m getting very close to being ready to launch it. It’s exciting!
I moved Sublime Blogs from Digital Ocean Spaces to Backblaze B2 for S3 storage. I like DO Spaces but it is severely lacking in a lot a features; namely, file versioning. B2 is also significantly cheaper when it comes to storage, but they make up for it in egress bandwidth cost. I don’t think a lot of people know this but they offer free egress to Cloudflare. So in the end, it is much cheaper than DO Spaces and offers more features.
Today my dad got a group of guys together to go to the Mission BBQ Bike Night. We got it meet a lot of new people and check out a few bikes.
