After all these years, and a month after starting writing code again, I got a feeling that I was in the zone today. It sounds like a weird term, but no, I was. I started my day by working on something related to a Django tutorial. Then I moved to resolve the SSL issue on this webpage, which I could after some help from a dear friend. I then moved to set up Ubuntu subsystem on Windows and using that instead of Windows Cmd for command-line work. I again had to install ruby, gems, GCC, Make, Jekyll, and set up Git on the new subsystem. Even got to resolve my first git merge conflict after so long. Who could have thought that I would enjoy doing this!

The constant context switching, and the way I handled it, really made me feel that I was ‘in the zone’. It’s also good to see how my actual personality has started reflecting in the kind of developer I have become. I used to get frustrated and annoyed at every error as a 21 yr old, but it’s very different now. I take a step back, think about all the possible reasons behind an error in a certain order, read up about it, try fixing it, and then eventually fix it. There’s some mechanism which keeps me at ease and helps me tackle a problem in a structured way. While the problems that I’m solving right now are not extremely challenging, I still hope that I’m able to retain this attitude towards problem-solving when it comes to that.