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  • How to create a self updating GitHub Readme

    Bob Belderbos

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    It was about time to give my GitHub profile a nice intro so inspired by Simon Willison’s blog post I decided to make an intro Readme that auto-updates. First I made a GitHub repo called bbelderbos, my username. That’s how it works: GitHub defaults to showing the Readme.md of your username’s repo on your profile page. Now the auto-updating part: Looks nice no? Some other things I learned: I hope this inspires you to not only make a “Hi there” Readme yourself, but also to try to keep it updated by pulling in other data sources that are relevant for you…

  • The Importance of Disconnecting as a Developer

    Hugh Tipping

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    You don’t need library to download the scent of honeysuckle. You can hear the music of a chattering creek without a secure connection or authentication. We spend so much time connected to and with our tech and our code that we forget what it feels like to be connected to the world around us, to nature, and even to people “in real life.” I suggested to a friend, a talented and prolific coder, who had been feeling stressed and a bit off balance lately, to make a conscious effort to avoid tech, just to be present with her surroundings and…

  • Give It Just Five Minutes

    Hugh Tipping

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    You know those nights when you want to work on writing or your coding project or side gig? You want to grow outside of the confines of a day-to-day job but you feel like the job has taken everything out of you. You get tired. You feel like you’re on the last bar of the battery. At the same time you feel like people around you are advancing and progressing on their projects. “How do people do this?”“How can they not be tired?”“Where do they get the time/energy/motivation?” All these questions float around a pool of wonder as you envy…

  • Python in Everyday Life

    Jesse Brink

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    In this article Jesse shares how he used Python to leverage his daughter’s homework assignment …

  • There is More Than One Way to Solve a Bite Exercise

    Harrison Morgan

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    According to the Zen of Python, “There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.” It’s a good principle for designing a program: the more ways there are of doing something, the more confusing the software becomes, along with a host of other problems. In reality, though, there almost always is more than one way to accomplish something. The quotation even displays this fact: it places the dash in two different ways, neither of which are the obvious way.