The Road Ahead

I’m close to the end of my apprenticeship now, just a couple of months and I will be free from exams and coursework, back to simply doing my job and being able to work on side projects without a school deadline of some kind poking my brain. It has been a long way to get here, 4 years, but I have a job at the end of it. I’m planning to visit my friends oversees for the first time in 5 years later this years as well, a proper holiday after COVID and College.

I have been learning Laravel so that I can contribute to the RetroAchievements website repository, I did use a bit of Laravel years and years ago but it has changed a lot since then. Contributing to such a large codebase is also a first for me, there are a lot of considerations to be made. I started with a few CSS changes and recently refactored an API endpoint to use Eloquent ORM which just got merged, I’d like to continue with API work and build some new ones for functionality that is missing or has been requested.