February's been a busy month:
- I transitioned off the project I spent the last 6 years working on to a new project. It was a bittersweet transition for me, I made a lot of great memories and friends on that project and learned a lot while being there. The good thing though on the new project is I'm reuniting with a friend and coworker from my first project out of college and this new project offers me the opportunity to work more closely with AWS which aligns with my mental goal for this year. February 23rd was my first day and I'm already seeing a lot of familiar faces from past work so I'm excited for what's to come.
- Joy and I have picked the house hunt back up after sitting on the side lines for the last year. Our initial failed attempt at finding our next family home from spanned from January 2023 - September 2024 (will write about this more once we've successfully found our next home.). We're now on the same page about selling our current house and have a realtor and an agreed upon price range for the new home. We're pre-approved, saw some homes with our new agent and have begun getting estimates and scheduling work for our current residence.
Those two things have taken up a majority of my brain capacity but I did squeeze in putting together a program to pull the data from Maryland State Department of Eductation(MSDE) Report Cards. I've taken the data from Montgomery County and Howard County to be able to compare schools in Excel. This has been useful as we've tried narrowing down neighborhoods based on attributes that are important to us. For this program I used BeautifulSoup for going through the non-dynamic pages and Playwright to scrape any dynamic pages. Playwright is an awesome tool I plan to use more in the future.
Goals for next month:
- Put together at least one coding related blog post or finish up next release of bible application.
- Have a better grasp of new tech stack on new project.
- Finish reading Show Your Work
- Continue making progress preparing current home to sell
- Sign up and start training for Half Marathon in June