Welcome to Syntax. Today, we're talking about starting a new project and making good choices.

It's not New Year, New Me. Yeah, making good choices. It's important. It's not New Year, New Me just yet, but it's never too late to start making good choices in the year. I am a recent convert to something known by most people

as planning. And I'm going to talk a little bit about planning projects and how that can make

you a better, yeah, I know, it's actually crazy. I'm the worst planner in the world. And much of the

chagrin of my wife, she thinks that my planning skills are abysmal. And I've been trying to

prove her wrong by actually planning things. And I'm sure that's just some kind of coordinated

effort on her part to get me to actually plan. But I'm going to do it anyways, because I'm like that. My name is Scott Jolenske. I'm a developer from Denver with me as always is Wes Boss. What's up, Wes? I'm excited to talk about this. I love starting a new project. And sometimes I do a little bit of planning and whatnot and then I feel good about it. And sometimes I just just freaking yolo it and about, I don't know, a day or two into a project I'm starting to have

regrets. You know that tattoo, no ragrats. Oh, I know a couple of those. Yeah. No no regrets for sure

because dude, that happens to me more often than not when I just start

get going, especially when you're, like, if it's just like demos or whatever, that's fine.

But the moment you bring a database into this world, then you got a deal.

It's like, you got a database to take care of.

Now you're writing migrations.

Now you're changing the names of stuff.

Sometimes you're just dumping the whole thing and starting over again. There's all kinds of things here that it can get really frustrating. And I'm here to tell you that I have seen the light for

planning and planning projects in various ways to do that in a better way. My name is Scott Telensky. I already said that.

You already said that. Let's get into it.

Let's talk about Century at Century.io. This is a great thing to have in your projects. You're starting a new project.

It's lap century in there.

You can make sure that you're catching the things that you need to catch,

whether that is slow queries, whether that is errors in your application, whether you

just want visibility.

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