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Oct 11, 2026

Journal Week 09 — Common Areas

There is progress in technical skills—but what about the social side?

A television in an office common area showing a scene from a Spider-Man movie.

Brief

Hi! A few things happened this week. First of all, the interns were invited to watch a basketball game. Socially, it was an interesting way to get to know the other interns outside the office.

What’s new?

This week, I may have spent a little too much time in the common areas, haha. I spent most of my time there because there is entertainment and very comfortable spaces to spend time with coworkers.

In the middle of the week, we received an invitation to watch a basketball game. I would share a photo, but I do not want to publish other people’s faces. The game was great, and I even won a cap.

Current development of my intern program?

This past week, we had several discussions about approaches we could take. I also learned that Jira can trigger HTTP events based on specific actions, such as labels or settings. That gave me ideas about how to move the project forward.

I think I may be biased here because most solid projects I have worked on used REST APIs or microservices. Most solutions I think of tend to follow that direction. In some ways, it is effective because those are robust solutions that can scale, but in others, it keeps me from improving my development skills in different areas and with other tools. Those are two things I need to practice and improve.

Learning and progress

There were several suggestions outside this project that I think I will study to improve my toolset. Beyond that, I have continued with my daily tasks. Something interesting has been seeing how tools are being developed in parallel to make development and fixes easier. It is not only my internship project; there are many other ideas focused on saving engineering hours.

Next steps

  • Expand my toolset.

  • Study more around my internship project.

  • Choose a theme for my TED Talk.

Reflections

My biggest reflection is realizing how different similar areas of software development can be. On one hand, I think my REST-server approach could have worked. On the other, a more robust application using other protocols—not necessarily HTTP or sockets—could be more interesting for managing permissions and providing solid, secure, scalable options within the company.