Estimation is an important part of software development and its incredibly difficult to make correct estimation. Over the time, I have realized that on most occasions my estimates were very aggressive despite keeping some buffer time.
Today I encountered a weird problem while running a python script with nohup. I was not getting anything in the output file even after waiting for 2-3 minutes which was unusual as I have used nohup on countless occasions with bash scripts and had not seen this issue.
After a brief stint at Mountain View, I came back to Bangalore and have been working from home since then. Working from home (rather from a remote location for me, since rest of my team is on the other half of the world) has its own advantages and disadvantages. I am listing down some of the things that I have noticed about myself.
Recently I was working on a real time workflow for a module. I found it really difficult to find good tutorial for the same. I struggled with Flask, gevents and lot of other things and finally settled down to nodejs and socket.io and redis pubsub.