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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. Learning along with Brad Traversy’s Python Django Dev To Deployment. It’s a bit old, but I like the way he teaches. And to make sure I am not cargo culting, I am doing this with Django 3 (the course has Django 2) ...

Here’s putting in some thought into what I’ll do this #CNC2021. Their first mail asked me to reflect on … Determine what has worked. Figured out the basics of data structures and algorithms Figured out how to write in Python Figured out how write my own code. Took a lot of work and persistence. Took a lot of grit. Realised that I’m not “slow.” I just have a hard life and could only put in fewer hours compared to the folks who zoomed past me. Determine what has NOT worked. Just what I said above but in a slightly negative manner. This takes a lot of grit. I need to figure out how to stop bare knuckling it and do it sustainably. I’m dog slow currently. I need to look up everything and I get distracted when I do that. I keep comparing myself to others and get overwhelmed What are your long-term goals? Get a job by accomplishing, in the next 6-12 months, what I listed in my introductory post. I need to do all sorts of basic exercises in the languages I am learning (Python/HTML/CSS/JavaScript) I need to find and contribute to open source projects, to get a feel of how it is to work with folks and to understand how this whole world functions I need to write toy projects for myself. What are your short-term goals? By the end of this challenge, I want to get into the rhythm of writing code across all the three goals I listed up above I just need to see steady forward progress

Hello folks! Wish me luck on my Django journey

What do I do, when I don’t understand the vagaries of tech? Why? I ask my friends to drum some sense into me. As I write more code, I wanted to get some sense of the cultural norms about how to use git. So I asked my young friends, Nabarun and Sayan all sorts of dumbass questions. Here it is, warts and all for posterity (but lightly edited). If you’d love to come teach me or be part of the conversation, head on over to the IRC #learnandteach channel on the freenode server. ...

Since I am a little out of sorts today, I decided to clean up the subscriptions options on the site. Both the mail and the rss feeds are on one page now. For easy findability1. The feeds are also categorised into work and personal, if that’s your jam. Here ya go! Subscribe! Yes, that is the technical term for it. Yes, of course I made it up. This is my domain. I get to make up everything around here! ↩︎ ...

Listening to me bitch and moan about the new direction CentOS, CentOS Stream, is now going in, someone sent me this post to tell me why this was a good thing. It’s a lovely post and I agree with most everything the author says. But I do believe, he talks past the main reason folks like me use CentOS. (and the main reason, Rocky Linux now exists.) CentOS came into existence because sci/tech folk wanted a base to build on and became popular, because old harried sysadmins like me wanted to support small shops, who did not have the budget to run servers and wanted to get out of the ever tightening thumb of Microsoft. ...