Last Wednesday I got good news at Potato: I've been promoted to senior developer :)

It's been roughly a year since I decided to ask for more responsibilities at work - tech leading small things at first, big ones until now - and it seems I've been doing things well (or so I've been told).

The reason I decided to ask for it was that I was going to get more variety of work than if I decided to stay the way I was. Which wasn't bad, but most of the times I felt like I wasn't being challenged and I really thought I could do more. Since then I've been lucky enough to work on Android and Arduino related stuff, tech lead a couple of short projects and more recently being the tech lead of a big team (oscillating between 6 and 8 people).

I think I could have got the promotion a bit earlier if I had pushed for it a bit more, but I really didn't want to rush it. Rushing it would have meant forcing myself to learn things faster and I think this is one of those things it's better learnt slowly.

The main difference I've noticed during the last year is that I now have to deal with people much more than I used to: people will ask you questions which answers you won't always know and figuring out how to solve these situations is, most of the times, a lot of fun.

For the last few months I haven't been coding much in my spare time. Not necessarily a bad thing though, I've been enjoying other aspects of life (videogames, movies, etc.).

However, I felt it's been a long while since I wrote some Python for a personal project, so I've decided to write a simple static site generator in Python - yes, I know about Pelican, I've used it in the past.

Why?

No particular reason, but if I had to come up with one, I'd say I want to work on a simple problem, such as generating an static html site, that will make me come up with a solution without checking how other static site generators work. Just for fun.

Also, I've been re-reading SMACSS recently and I wanted to apply some of the knowledge before I forget about it.

Technology that will be used

• Python 3
• Markdown
• BeautifulSoup 4

Code available here

http://jgasteiz.gitlab.io

In the past few months I've noticed I'm barely able to write anything on a paper. My calligraphy has gone to shit since I left uni and at this pace I'm going to have to relearn how to write.

The only thing I've been able to come up with to avoid that is to start having a pocket todo diary, instead of using Todoist (sorry, Todoist). Hopefully, by writing a bit every day I will soon remember how to do it.

I guess this is a classic 21st century problem.