Jason Learns Django - 06

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....

April 28, 2021 · Mario Jason Braganza

Jason Learns Django - 05

Life got in the way again. Remembered yesterday. So I took it easy. Gave myself 4 hours and the grace to quit if I wasn’t done. And somehow, by the skin of my teeth, I got done with the pending module. What did I do/learn today? I seemed to have taken a break at a natural place in the module. If yesterday was about wiring views, today was about doing search....

April 27, 2021 · Mario Jason Braganza

Jason Learns Django - 04

I thought last friday was hard. Boy, was I wrong. I had scheduled about four hours to do one of Brad’s modules everyday. And today was such a bear. Life happened. There were lots of interruptions. I tried to soldier on nonetheless. Eight hours in, and I am still only halfway through the module. That’s when I decided to give myself some grace and let it go. Note to self, stick to the time....

April 26, 2021 · Mario Jason Braganza

Jason Learns Django - 03

Today was a slog. Life got in the way, so lost some scheduled time. So decided to work some more in the evening. What did I do/learn today? Learnt the basics of models, and migrations today. Learnt how to install PostgreSQL, so that I could simualate a production environment. This took eons, all because, I did not realise that I (or some other program I installed) had already installed Postgres in the past, and so I went down a rabbit hole of looking at logs and figuring out ports and why I could not talk to the database I wanted....

April 24, 2021 · Mario Jason Braganza

Jason Learns Django - 02

Today was a really good day. Did four productive hours of work. Managed to focus, and follow the lessons and write my own code. What did I do/learn today? I need to write a lot more code. I need to write lots of HTML/Javascript, to gain a better understanding. I thought I could get by with basic stuff, but the more I learn Django, the more I see that it works hand in hand with the content and styling that I have written....

April 23, 2021 · Mario Jason Braganza

Jason Learns Django

Meta post. More than Django itself, I am beginning the phase of my journey, where now I write code and install programs and do all the things. Am committing 2 hours to this daily, on weekdays along with a tiny what did I learn post. I am beginning with Django itself, and if I have difficulties with any underlying concepts, I will quickly dive down and write code to understand those....

April 22, 2021 · Mario Jason Braganza

Starting up #CNC2021.

Enough learning. I now have to drill what I’ve learnt over the past few weeks and months by writing lots of code. Been noodling around with what that might look like in my head. Here’s what I got. After tentatively coding up stuff in a couple of domains and after a short chat with a friend, I realise I love writing code for the web. I love reading. I love to write on my blog....

April 20, 2021 · Mario Jason Braganza

I Can’t Do This Yet … Updated

Updated version of the post. I seem to have somehow, mangled the old one. I’ll just blame it on the gremlins in the cloud. I’ve been “soft” looking for a job, since the end of last year when I learnt the basics of Python. (Want me to come work with you as a junior developer? Here’s my resume!) And I’ve had rejection after rejection after rejection. I apparently am good....

April 17, 2021 · Mario Jason Braganza

A Love Letter to Books

Despite financial troubles there’s a sense in which my childhood was immensely privileged — a pauper in the material world, I was a sultan in the world of ideas. — Erik Hoel I started by wanting to share that quote and link on my microblog and then my thoughts turned into a blog post sized comment. I decided to post it here too, then. That quote describes my life to a T, even now....

April 8, 2021 · Mario Jason Braganza

Thoughts on Setting Up a Blog

This post was first sent to my newsletter on March 19th, 2021. You really ought to subscribe :) I blame Mahe for this post. Hey, Jason! Can you please write an article on how to build a website like yours, where I can post my blogs? Check out her blogs, here and here. This one is squarely aimed at all the young ones, who are convinced that they need to be writing....

March 26, 2021 · Mario Jason Braganza