{"id":5637,"date":"2023-12-19T23:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T15:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:49:40","slug":"things-i-learn-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2023\/12\/things-i-learn-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I learn in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some key learning points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>1. You don&#8217;t try, you won&#8217;t know<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of running NitrogenOS on my phone, switching over to PixelOS gave me back Application Timers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Excel Slicer to build more user-friendly pivot tables<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Python programming &#8211; mainly in handling IOS configs and inventory output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. iPerf &#8211; to test network bandwidth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Sharepoint and Onedrive integration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a productivity multiplier. Everything is on your local disk and you can use your favourite tools to work<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. After action review <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This helps you to plan better, especially for the same type of event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. How to use GitHub with Pycharm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Keep your main certification current.  Otherwise it is very difficult to change a job.  Think of it as your parachute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bad learning points<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A.  Not everything needs a response.  Sometimes things can self resolve.  Meeting clash and unable to reschedule.  Chill, sometimes it gets pushed because a bigger stakeholder can&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B. If your boss wants you to scream alarm when nothing gets your way, you just got to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some key learning points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[569,570,372],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-improvement","tag-nitrogenos","tag-pixelos","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6305,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/6305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}