Coding Period Week 3 ✅📦
Where Did the Weeks Go 😭
Genuinely don’t know how we’re already at week 3. The weeks are flying and things are moving fast which is a good sign I guess. Lots happened this week so let’s get into it.
The RBAC Call with Pratham Bhaiya 📞
I had a dedicated call with Pratham Bhaiya this week to discuss the RBAC approach for the policy layer. We went through the structure, talked through how roles and permissions should be handled, and figured out the right direction before I wrote a single line.
After that call I went ahead and raised the policy PR. Then in our Wednesday meet we talked about edge cases, which ones matter now, which ones we handle later. The call was clear: establish the foundation first, edge cases come after. I like that approach. No point over-engineering before the base is solid.
SSMDA + Wednesday Meet. Same Day. 2 Hours of Sleep. 😵
So last week I mentioned I was scared of my Statistics, Statistical Modelling and Data Analytics exam. The one exam I wasn’t fully prepared for. I was trying to prep for it while also working on PRs at the same time because I wanted to have something solid to show at the Wednesday meet.
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The result of trying to do both? 2 hours of sleep. And both the exam and the Wednesday mentor meet landed on the same day.
Only I know how I sat through that meet. Half asleep, exam just done, trying to form coherent sentences about policy implementation. Somehow I managed. 😂 Both the exam and the meet went fine in the end but that Wednesday was something else.
And now officially all exams are over. No college till mid August. YEAAAAA. 🎉 Full focus mode from here. No commute, no attendance stress, no last bench contributions. Just pure uninterrupted work. Finally.
Phase 1 is Almost Done 🏁
Both DB PRs are merged. Models, controllers, and policy PRs are all done and up for review. That’s the full foundation layer sitting there ready to be looked at.
Phase 1 is basically done. We will consider serializers and API directly in Phase 2. The foundation is laid, now it’s time to build on top of it properly.
Feels good to look back at week 1 where I was just getting the organization table merged and see how far the stack has come in just 3 weeks. DB, models, controllers, policies. All done. That’s a real chunk of work.
Week 3 in a Nutshell 💡
Talk to your mentor before writing the code. That RBAC call saved a lot of guesswork.
Edge cases are real but they come after the foundation. Don’t let them slow you down early.
2 hours of sleep, exam and a mentor meet on the same day. Still showed up. That’s it.
No college till August. The grind just got a whole lot cleaner. 😤
