Tuesday Letter #26 - Coding Career and Learning Automation
Hey, Happy Tuesday!
Today’s issue is heavy on programming. I didn’t plan it that way. Rather, the stars have aligned and I did a lot of coding in the past two weeks. I hope you still find it fun or useful.
I have been doing a lot of development work for Built with Django, and it’s crazy to me how much can be achieved in a week or two. To further increase the usefulness of the time I spend on coding I decided to stream how I code. Here is the recording from today’s stream if you are interested.
In other big news, I have finally published the first (trailer) episode of the ‘Built with Django Podcast’. It is available on most services. In the next couple of days, I will be posting the first full episode.
Alright, with all this out of the way, let’s move to the actual newsletter.
Thanks to all subscribers, old and new, for reading this newsletter.
As always, if you have any feedback, please let me know. Hope you enjoy this week’s issue.
📜 Quote of the week
“A normal error message tells you an error happened somewhere. A good error message tells you the local state that caused the error. A great error message tells you probable causes and how to fix them. A terrible error design doesn’t show up at all - a silent error.”
🧠 Random Thought
In the pursuit of automating everything, we lose the touch with the process. When it comes to learning, less automation is better. Move away from automation.
😀 Person of a week
William Vincent is a Board Member of the Django Software Foundation.
Will is an author of a fantastic book series. He wrote: - Django for Beginners - Django for APIs - Django for Professionals
These books have been a Django bible for me and still are. I use them as a reference all the time. He also writes @ LearnDjango, which has some good tutorials. Will is a fantastic contributor to the Django community.
🐔 Tweet of the week
8 tools that will simplify your development process Which one would you add? 🧵 👇
This one is for the Python developers out there. TestDriven.io has a lot of awesome content, check them out.