Michelle Lim
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Michelle Lim
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associate swe-ing at visa

building
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• aggregator app (secret)

learning
• the odin project
I'm excitedddd to work on my side project this weekend!
July 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The fastest way is the slowest way haha

Took the time to go through the mcp client and server tutorials and now the code I took from somewhere makes sense lol

It was really fun though! Learnt more about python and virtual environments too
June 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Also, checkboxes are the best hahahaha

Makes me happier ticking them off ^^
June 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Woohoo! What else to do on PTO, but to learn something new? xD (Need to touch grass 🍀)

I've picked up a course on The Odin Project andddd of course rested the first few days

Excited! And also set up Ubuntu on my workstation again after rushing a `rm -rf /etc` command

Nice! Much neater setup now
June 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
ah i have to work harder haha
i can do this i can do this
May 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
wooo mostly done with the impl of a dashboard thing

lots of ideas

want to work harder
but also want to go slower for the next month HAHA
April 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
ah shit i spent the past couple hours setting the wrong app up lol
April 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
blegh yarn
yay expo

blegh react native
April 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
omg almost a month

since then, i've also worked on a spring batch config, tests

working on some frontend stuff during my free time ^^;;

at work, im configuring a context to route sql operations between nodes
April 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
i learnt more about globalscape and sftp tho! but still hahahahaha

one of the more taxing sprints

and

the codebase is a maze
i dont like maze
March 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
also was refining prompts, experimenting with cline earlier

perhaps that is what people meant by coding with english

but also the amnt of refining needed to do smth

wouldve been faster to write the code (?)
March 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
mannnn so much brain drain nowadays after work HAHA

figuring out spring batch processing for files hahahaha

regression test is hahahaha
March 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Gonna try adding in file transfer into an existing repo :D

Also spent more time reading on encryption

Let's work harder to build the life I want haha
February 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
me: oh writing tests this sprint, should be fine

also me: how do i get this value since it's not in the request/resp?

also me after awhile: ??? why does this algorithm not produce the same hashed value?
February 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
working on a bug fix and also wondering how to consolidate all the local app properties for multiple applicationssss
February 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
omg wth i just saw a super cool post combining graphic design and chess

HOW COOL IS THAT
i want to build something exciting like that too...
February 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Revising some mongodb queries this weekend and doing some investigations on jasperreports!

Exciting exciting hehe
February 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Surprisingly don't hate working on the weekend (on my own choice)
February 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Building a tool for a hackathon!

I don't miss typescript at all haha

Wtf viewchild
February 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Also excited to be back building my own product (soon) and other things ^^;;

Tutoring is still going on
February 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Omg it's been a month
Haha is this a pattern or what

Since then, I've written more unit and automated tests, as well as parts of features

Taking part in my first hackathon! And also next one soon

Am I gonna be in trouble or what lol
February 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Ugh has it been 2 weeks?

Celebrating 3 months into my role and passing the probation :D

Since then, I've written:
- More unit tests haha...
- More BDD tests
- An API
- Blocked by service setup due to it not shutting down properly lol, this costed me 2 days...

Writing a spring batch job rn
December 24, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Woohoo! Wrote more unit tests and a service

Getting started on the BDD tests

Sprints are really sprints, when do we stop sprinting?
December 10, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Grateful to also have friendly team and great buddy ;;;

As a junior (or a super intern), I try my best not to distract others from their tasks, but it is true that they will spend resources teaching, mentoring and walking thru processes w me

Gotta work hard and apply as much as possible
December 6, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Also finally passed the SonarQube

Learnt about guard break pattern, excited to learn about more coding patterns hehe
December 6, 2024 at 10:31 AM