In my 2023 goals post, I mentioned that one of my objectives is to improve my skills as a team manager by reading two books on the subject. One of the books I had in mind was “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”. I already heard a lot of great things about this book from a couple of colleagues and the reviews on goodreads are mostly positive, so I was excited to find that Orly Tokov, our group ops manager, had left the book on my desk....

When learning a new concept, it’s easy to get stuck in the planning phase and convince ourselves that watching a YouTube series or reading various articles and books will be enough to get us to where we want to be. While planning ahead and researching a topic is important, it’s not as effective as actually practicing and doing the work. Instead of spending hours researching a topic, allocate just enough time of your time to learn the basics....

As the new year approaches, it’s natural to think about our goals and aspirations for the coming year. In this blog post, I’ve outlined a selection of personal goals that I hope to achieve in 2023. These goals are organized into categories, including Programming & Management, Personal Development and Personal Interests. By breaking down my goals into smaller, more obtainable pieces of work, I hope to stay focused and make progress towards things that will positively impact my life....

Question Phew… This took a lot of googling to get right. Working with unstructured data in Go wasn’t as simple as I’m used to from JS. Having said that, I think the outcome is quite alright. The communication device is still acting up… We receive a distress signal but it seems like the packets are arriving out of order (our puzzle input). Packet pairs are separated by an empty line and the packet data is represented as integers and a list of integers....