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The thing is, I want to learn all the things all at once.
I think in the time/energy I have outside of my day job, while I am excited to package a tool I made into an app for my friends to use and also learn Django and also get my Eleventy site really rolling and also migrate my partner's site over to a self-built one.... Can't do everything at once.
So for now, my primary focus is finishing my Python course! My learning path has me done with that by end of August.
TIME TO FOCUS!
Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices.
What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
For those who build sites for other people, I'm curious how frequently people say yes to a Jamstack build when most consumers who don't understand websites would ask for a Wordpress / Squarespace / Wix site.
Are you seeing more non-developer and non-hobbyist people / companies saying yes to #11ty or #Astro or #Nuxt etc? @11ty @nuxt
Put fencing around the new garden today to keep the dogs from trampling the wee veggies, so only got through 2.5 of this week’s #python problems in #CS50, fingers crossed I can finish the rest tomorrow and stay on track with my learning schedule!
Also forced my partner to endure watching a musical, and holy heck Cynthia Erivo. #AlwaysLateToTheParty
Okay so I decided to try to build a program that would convert 160 articles that are in .docx files with old company branding to a new .docx file that uses an updated template. I've used #docx2python, and have mostly got success!
But there are a few bugs I'm stumped by, the biggest one being that I've tried like 8 different ways to identify and convert ordered lists, and I can't get those to work. Unordered lists are fine... Any suggestions? https://github.com/sae-br/Article-Rebrand
The problem with dystopian satirical fiction is that it's too real nowadays. You can sit around coming up with an idea for a short story but it just ends up being something like "DraftKings Jr: Sportsbooks for little leagues" and then you start to get terrified the silly idea you just had will actually become real in under 5 years
The #solarpunk people are on the right track I think with the idea of writing utopian fiction instead because it's genuinely more bold to imagine things actually being good. We're all cynical now so actually envisioning something worth fighting for is the real bitter pill we need now and not depresso wallowing in our pessimism.
The real opportunity I think is in the liminal space between the two. Write about a revolution in progress and the sorts of conflicts between now and what we want by 2050 or so.
Important thought of the day: If you're rate limited when accessing an API, is the server telling you to both give it a rest *and* not to REST?
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