Work Week in My Life as a Software Engineer in NYC

[Music] [Applause] [Music] what's up guys today's Monday great start to the weekend of life I'm on vacation well for one day my mom was visiting us in town we had such a wonderful extended weekend with her showing her around the city for like the fifth or sixth time but it never gets old being able to share our life with our loved ones when they come visit us and my wife and I love to host but back into my routine it was nice having Friday and Monday off a well needed like vacation from work and I took a couple weeks off from content creation so right now I'm actually working on a really exciting campaign with one of my favorite tech Brands one of the first Brands to actually give me an opportunity to work with them on like a major campaign for the release of their Flagship products just need to open up this window a bit so we can get some fresh air and of course get some New York City sounds for some energy especially that like late afternoon crash that I'm not trying to get because I want to go play some ball at the gym and and I have a normant tech session schedule for 30 minutes so I'm going to probably grab like a quick snack because I've been prioritizing hitting my calories and my macros quick snack hop on an ebike and head to the gym and give these dudes some buckets oh almost forgot quick announcement I'm going to be in Berlin for the we are developers conference and I'm going to be at the twio boo specifically I never announce when I go to conferences for some reason but every time I go to these large developer conferences in Europe I run into subscribers and it's always so like refreshing and just amazing to meet you know my community in person so if you're at we are developers please stop by at the twio booth and say hi I don't know where we're going to be at specifically because we're still like 3 weeks to almost a month out but I'll see you all there in Berlin [Music] all right so today's Tuesday I haven't got a chance to film at all I've been so busy with work wrapping up this campaign I haven't had to go to Manhattan to pick up this new vertical stand for my MacBook Pro that it's been long overdue I always have my MacBook in clamshell mode underneath my desk shelf and it's just too much of a pain to switch in between my work laptop and my personal laptop so it just made more sense to get a stand I'm actually running a few minutes behind I'm going to go to my Tuesday run Club at McCaron Park I've been doing that the last three out of four Tuesdays and it's I feel like it's made all the difference in terms of my speed confidence and then just building more Community within the running space specifically Brooklyn Track Club and one of my homies that I played AA basketball with is the one that got me you know more excited and kind of influenced to run more because it just seems like such a fun like community and just hobby with so many different events and ways to me really amazing people who are all trying to like you know have common goals of we're all going after like a common goal of like running better half marathons marathons and so on just just really positive so finally we're able to go to the Run club together at the same time so I'm excited to see how well I can run today and just also not being at the track club kind of like feeling like a fish out of water cuz you know I don't know nobody so it's like be a little less weird this time good morning guys today's is Wednesday I only had one meeting this morning and um it's not even morning anymore it's it's literally my lunch break I'm looking at kandess Traveler to try to figure out where we should go after the conference in Berlin because we have to take advantage of really affordable flights throughout Europe for a European summer I also want to go down downstairs and just try out the Sabrina basketball shoes that I bought yesterday the Sabrina 1es they came out with this new colorway I don't know the name of it but they look like Kobes and I played volleyball in them yesterday also have been using the Sonos Ace headphone as my main overhead headphone the quality of these headphones is on par with airpods Max and the XM 5S um they're really comfortable noise canceling is great transparency mode is phenomenal like I can clearly hear my en enironment around me in transparency mode and hold a conversation while keeping the headphones on the only thing that didn't work which kind of sucks maybe I needed to like redownload the app or do some sort of update I want to be able to use these headphones while watching TV because if you have a Sono system you can actually change your audio from your Sonos speakers to the ace but I haven't been able to do that yet all right so I'm made it down to the basketball court time to get some shout ups with the Sabrina 1es I wore them yesterday like I mentioned playing volleyball and obviously that's not necessarily comparable to making cuts and running full speed playing basketball I can't even really do that in a court this small but nonetheless they feel really comfortable like my first impressions they're really comfortable the only reason why I'm like even hesitant about this shoe is because I don't wear low tops ever my hooping shoes are primarily midcut to high cut I just maybe like the last few years got comfortable with midcut sneakers because I would get so so many spraining ankles and it was just debilitating like being out for like 3 months at a time because of a high ankle spray and it's it's painful now I'm feeling more confident in my ankle flexibility and strength I played in the giannis's just wasn't really a fan of how my foot felt in the sneaker but I think the sabrinas are pretty similar to like the Kobes maybe even like a low cut version of like Kyo sneaker and they look really good this purple colorway is crazy so you know since I'm a part of Nike's 365 boot camp program I get reimbursed up to a certain point for Nike purchases so I fig why not try them out [Music] o [Music] and then it goes like this I know oh me zoom in oh wow it looks so good starting a day pretty healthy with this protein shake I like to have like a healthy blend of of drinking the pre-made like protein shakes but I also you know have been wanting to better manage what I put in my body so more times than not I like to make my own shake and if you guys are curious what smoothie machine we have it's the uh Beast smoothie machine so I'll link it down below also got my hair braided it's been so hot that I just needed to braid my hair so I can just have a breather for like a few weeks can't even lie guys I'm a little tired it's it's July almost and I've noticed that when July comes around that's when I feel like almost the most exhausted out the year outside of like at the end of the year obviously I definitely need some rest and I think I struggle with that because when I'm not like working my 9 to-5 job I'm working on some sort of content creation whether it's like a brand deal or working on like a larger YouTube Project even though I haven't even been doing a lot of brand deals feel like the traveling has caught up to me just being busy like living in New York like I didn't realize how busy I was until I looked at my calendar that's why I think like getting better with like my calendar management my to-do lists are so important especially for this past quarter because I've been juggling a lot of projects I haven't been able to talk a ton about what I've been working on because I've been doing a lot of like confidential work but it is centered around like developer experience and one thing that I want to do and prioritize for Q3 is I want to work on like a small pet project for my 9 to5 job specifically and like censored around like like just testing out developer tooling along with just reading more like blog posts and forums around user experience I read or listened to the audio book the Design of Everyday Things which has taught me a lot I feel like it's allowed me to think more critically about all things designed like web applications and just kind of with the way the world works and and obviously the digital world more so so I think want to take that apply those skills to like learning more about developer tooling maybe even creating my own developer tool at some point um still managing our open- source Dev phone project which is a really amazing developer tool that our team created maybe like a year or so before I joined I'm also hoping to do more programming for Q3 just because this past quarter was mostly centered around testing and once you get the template down for testing it's kind of like the same strategy the implementations don't change outside of what you're testing for and that's already kind of written for you because you're testing what these functions are expecting or not expecting I actually need to run to a meeting finish this protein shake and then I also need to get my haircut because the braids are clean but my my cut is not clean and I I just need a nice clean shave so this is one of my favorite meetings of the day I'm going to be talking to my homie Frank my coworker who's become a good friend of mine that lives in London and we always have the best conversations so excited to hop on a call with Frank I've also noticed that I've really enjoyed using the MX Keys s for mac and how much I missed using Logitech MX Keys I've been using mechanical keyboards like the past year year and a half which I love my mechanical keyboards but I work so much more quickly with the Logitech uh MX Keys s and I think the biggest reason is because it's like the most most ergonomic keyboard not even trying to sell y'all on it like this is not sponsored but then also typing experience feels really natural seamless and then this specific model is for like Mac OS users so I'm used to this keyboard [Music] layout all right so we just got back to the crib had a really good ux demo meeting just catching up on some of the changes that they're making and the progress they're making which is always really refreshing especially when you see your work like kind of align or you find like commonalities or like correlations even if you haven't even been in communication with the designer or product manager who's demoing which is's always refreshing so now I'm about to go to the gym I'm really behind in my workout I have to do legs but regretting it I also wanted to test out the sabrinas in like real live like competition instead of just like shooting around it's a beautiful day it's Thursday so why not go to the gym obviously we have a really beautiful gym downstairs but I'm paying for our gym membership so I might as well go and especially because the bike is charged up so if I want to I can take the electric bike which will get me to the gym really quickly or I can even take my road bite which sometimes is a bit easier [Music] they [Music] PA [Music] o [Music] [Music] you [Music] what's up guys today Sunday I only filmed like one video clip on Saturday because as you can see um I look a little bit different today because I have this metal splint wrapping my pinky finger so yesterday I went to go play basketball my typical routine get up in the morning make my wife and I some coffee spend some quality time with each other in the morning she went to the gym to work out with her friend I decided to go play ball I'm not saying this was like the spirit or anything maybe it was just like intuition I'm not sure maybe it was the Holy Spirit I was I was um waiting to play basketball and I didn't feel like as excited to hoop that day especially when I got to the gym because it wasn't that many players which is fine because there were good players playing which means I'd be able to get a lot of good good games in in a shorter amount of time someone got hurt and I just had this like someone that doesn't that I don't ever see get hurt and I had this weird feeling about potentially getting hurt as well the main reason is because I started hooping in those sabrinas which are low tops and if you guys have been following my channel long enough to know that I had a lot of ankle issues um since high school because of like football and playing basketball and just people undercutting me this is my first time wearing low tops since like like a my junior sophomore junior year in college but anyways I was like I'm not going to let this negative thought affect me and I get end up playing like one game and um the game was going well mad tall dude he was like had to be like 69 and just the weirdest play happened I just like we both go for this loose ball and I my pinky finger like hits his like arm and then it just my pinky just like dislocated or it looked like dislocated and know if you can remember but this finger I dislocated this finger some years ago so it's never been fully straight but it like popped out of socket it was the weirdest thing then I popped it back in and when I bent it it like tried to pop back out of socket and then I just I popped it back in um and I just I hit the gamewinner actually I kept playing I take my finger up hit the gamewinner and then one of the homies said that I was uh I was just U making that up or whatever then he said I'm from Cleveland also is funny because you know being from Ohio Cleveland like known for being tough whatever that's beside the point just extra context so I end up going to the uh emergency room because I don't want my finger to get worse it already didn't heal right from the last fracture or dislocation and I get x-rays no break but um the doctor said that I need to see a hand doctor because there's like this Hood that's on your finger allows you to bend it or I I I don't know exactly what the medical term is and all the details but but basically I might have like this torn ligament in my finger which would probably require a procedure which would require a procedure so yeah I just honestly pretty bummed out about that it took a lot of my energy positive energy energy yesterday and I was going to film because I tried to go about my day like how I normally would but I just wasn't feeling it especially with this cast yeah so next time I'm just going to listen to that voice in my head that's like yo maybe you should just sit this one out um but you know anything can happen at any point in time like we're not fully in control as we think we are which is just a reminder whenever I get injured to be grateful for just having a fully functioning body all right so we just got to the zip car location I've never done this before um most of these cars are on lifts I don't see our truck but maybe it's on a lift somewhere or around the corner [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]