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Wednesday, October 5 2016

I spent much of the workday adding features to the main fundraising database allowing it to accept raw SQL queries. I wanted to make an environment suitable for a complete novice to experiment with free-form queries. I made some good headway in this effort, though it's not really the stuff my boss wants me to be prioritizing. As always in my workplaces, I have to have one thing I tell my boss and another that I'm actually working on.
Meanwhile, there was a constant stream of workplace distractions as I had to research answers in the codebase(s) for questions coming my way. For some questions, if I don't have the answer, then it is a mystery. Luckily I can read undocumented code nearly as well as I can read documentation. Reading code is actually more to the point than any documentation ever could be, since there is no way for it to do something other than what it says it is doing. Code is its own documentation.


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