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And just like that, I’m done with #CNC2021 I started this journey, on April 20th, with the hope that I would write a lot more code. I was getting discouraged because to my mind, I was not getting much done. I volunteered for the Code More challenge, in the hope that I could make some progress Background Like I mentioned in the Code Newbie Welcome Thread, I am looking to change careers and get a job as a web developer. Which means I have a lot to learn, in a hurry. So I’ll need all the help, I can get. ...

This post was first sent to my newsletter on May 2nd, 2021. You really ought to subscribe :) New month, new newsletter! :) Let’s get right into it, shall we? An informed look on the why of the farmers agitation. Vivek Kaul’s post on how Bihar fared when they did away with APMCs in 2006, shows why the farmers are up in arms. Read them here, part 1, part 2, & part 3 ...

And just like that, this little journey ends. What did I do/learn today? Today was all about deployments. Learnt how to use gunicorn along with nginx to deploy my website. Learnt how to hide my secrets outside my code. My first Django site is live! A few reflections. The project was both harder than I thought it would be, and took less time than I thought it would. I know Django now, but I definitely don’t “know” Django. This was an excellent introduction to the world of webdevelopment for me and has only whet my taste for more. I realised that I need to skill up my HTML / CSS. That is where I turn to next. All the art and the layout were already done for me in this project. I want to do those too. I need to do these study projects slower and keep aside sometime for play projects too. This is something I will definitely do next week onwards.

This post was first sent to my newsletter on April 23rd, 2021. You really ought to subscribe :) Welcome to a tech edition of the letter. I’m trying something new with this now, since I am in that strange valley, where I don’t know enough about programming to write opinions of my own and yet I need to talk to my techie friends. So, taking a leaf out of Kushal’s newsletter, I will share stuff that I come across as I read. And reading and jabbering about tech is something I can do. And the stuff I share will definitely be the best links and articles I find from the wide variety of sites I read. At most three a letter; I don’t want to overwhelm you :) So, like Kushal, but not as niche as him. Definitely not wide ranging either. Let’s see :) Also, please let me know how you like it :) Here we go … ...

Today was a little easier. What did I do/learn today? Today was about doing contacts in the app that we are building. Registering visitors and stuff The basic flow was generating another app and doing views and models and wiring them up to pages So this felt like revision of all that I’d learnt over the past few days. Stuff makes some more sense now. I think I will be done in a day or two, but I know I have only scratched the surface of Django. I will need to build a lot more projects to gain fluency. That’ll be the plan in the coming weeks and months

Hard day again. I just cannot seem to focus and learn. It takes slogging and rewatching and retyping and oh, I missed a colon there. Do it again. And again. And again. And that is the only way, I seem to make any progress. Well, the learning at speed does not quite seem to be in my hands (or my brain 😂) What is in my control, and the best I can do, is to show up every day. ...