What did you do this past week?

I flew to the Bay Area on Wednesday afternoon for my Google interview. I finally broke my SFO curse. Prior to this trip, every time to or from SFO has been delayed. Since I had to miss class on Thursday, I spent a lot of time working ahead earlier in the week. I managed to not fall behind too much.

What’s in your way?

As of right now, sleep is in my way. I returned to Austin at 5:40 in the morning on Friday. I didn’t sleep much during the flight. I have no idea how I both managed to make it to class on time and not fall asleep during class. I don’t recommend red-eye flights on days that you have class.

What will you do next week?

I have an exam in Intro to Security next week. My UX professor assigned a project to the class while I was away. I need to figure out what that project involves and somehow join a group. I have a remote interview with AirBnb next week. I could potentially have two more interviews in addition that one. I plan on starting phase 3 of our project next week. I’d like to have most of our scrapping done by the end of the week.

What was your experience of Project #2?

As someone who’s working primarily on the backend, Project #2 went pretty smoothly. We did have a little bit of trouble getting our source APIs. One of the three original APIS that we found got absorbed into a different API. It took a while to find a suitable replacement. Thankfully, we started early. Most of what I had to do was related to the API documentation. The real backend in work will start in the next phase of the project. My amazing teammates got the static site up and running without much trouble.

What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?

My pick-of-the-week is about this article about a cloud quantum computing service that D-wave has started. The service, named Leap, will allow anyone whose signs up to have a one free minute of runtime on a quantum computer each month. D-wave claims that that minute is enough for users to execute between 400 and 4000 jobs for free each month.