<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Lessons on Sminkware.com</title><link>https://sminkware.com/blog/lessons/</link><description>Recent content in Lessons on Sminkware.com</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright © 2026, Jeroen Smink.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:22:00 +0100</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sminkware.com/blog/lessons/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Reflections of a Junior Engineer, Lessons Learned in Year One</title><link>https://sminkware.com/reflections-of-a-junior-engineer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:22:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://sminkware.com/reflections-of-a-junior-engineer/</guid><description>&lt;p>Today it has been a year since I started my fulltime job as a DevOps Engineer. After studying four years for my bachelor&amp;rsquo;s degree in software engineering and traveling around SEA for five months I returned the 22nd of February to my old internship. The only difference now was that I was not an intern anymore, but a full-time employee.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I have always believed that it is a good thing to look back in the past at your own actions and think about certain moments or conversations when you learned something from somebody else or when important decisions were made. That is why I am writing this blogpost where I will look back at some of the things I have done and learned over the last year and what will be up for me the upcoming year.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>