Feb 28,2026

February 2026 Retrospective: Code, Chaos, and Consistency

Introduction

February has been a massive month of growth, late-night debugging, and learning how to juggle my full-time sales job with my transition into tech. Spending 2-3 hours every day coding and studying is demanding, but seeing my ideas turn into live products makes it worth it. Here is a raw look at what I built, what I learned, and the challenges that tested my patience this month.

What I Built

One of my proudest achievements this month was officially building the MVP for FixFinders, my local service provider directory app for the Namkham and Muse areas. I built the backend with Django and PostgreSQL, connected it to Supabase, and finally got a live demo deployed on Render. I also spent time researching KYC (Know Your Customer) processes to ensure service providers can be properly verified.

I also participated in the KBZPay AppCube Developers Bootcamp Hackathon, it was the one of my first worst experience hackathon, I don’t know what can I say ?So I just shift my focus to the project i am working on , I continued chipping away at my Telegram bot for clothing shop inventory management, wrestling with tricky webhook bugs using the Telegram Bot API and Google Apps Script.

What I Learned

I made solid progress in the Data Engineering Zoomcamp 2026, diving deep into data pipelines and analytics engineering. For Homework 4, I successfully wrote Python scripts to download and ingest NYC TLC green and yellow taxi data into a DuckDB database. I also set up my dbt (data build tool) project and successfully built staging models for the taxi data. Getting more comfortable with Docker and GCP BigQuery has been a huge level-up for my backend skills.

Community and Volunteering

I continued my volunteer work with Women in AI Myanmar, shifting my responsibilities to better match my current goals. This coming month, I transitioned away from podcasting into managing their video editing, creating TikTok short clips, and handling social media posting. To balance this with my full-time schedule, I started looking into ways to automate these repetitive tasks using my Python and Telegram bot skills.

The Difficulties and Challenges

This month wasn’t just about shipping code; I hit several roadblocks that forced me to step back and re-evaluate.

Technical Hurdles: Deploying Django with Supabase on Render came with its fair share of deployment headaches. Similarly, managing local Docker environments for the Zoomcamp continues to test my debugging patience.
Personal Focus: On a personal level, I struggled heavily with impulsive thoughts and distractions this month. Balancing a demanding sales career with a rigorous daily learning habit made it easy to occasionally lose sight of my goals or fail to complete my daily plans.
Personal Development: One of the key give me going on without too much stress is doing 5mins meditation each morning and writing journal to reset everything that fuel negative energy.That habit just help me to be more resilience in my situations.

Looking Forward to March

February taught me that I am capable of building and deploying full-stack apps, but I need to protect my focus. For March, my goals are to finish the Data Engineering Zoomcamp strong, fix the user signup data management bugs in FixFinders, and keep building sustainable habits. Onward to the remote backend engineer goal!