My publisher recently unveiled the fourth edition of Python Object-oriented Programming. This one has a new twist: I didn’t write it!
When I first encountered the Internet my peers and I thought it was great fun to share our dev setups. We were always optimizing and always looking for new ways to optimize. Not to mention showing off.
I lost interest in this practice because I settled into a system that was sufficient for my needs. Also, I didn’t have time!
But I’ve recently made a ton of changes to my workflow that some might be interested in, and I happen to have some time as I’m between jobs.
I am trying a new blogging format hoping that I can post interesting content more often. Looking for feedback on the format.
I’ve been wondering what to do with this blog for a while. I haven’t had time to do the technical deep dives I used to do. But I’ve also been reluctant to pivot into different kinds of articles. I’ll write more about that in the future (the summary is that I’ve been writing fiction instead of code in my free time). For now, however, I’ve decided to publish a non-technical shallow dive on something I do not understand very well: stock markets and economics.
I’m about halfway into writing my first novel. Though I have plenty of writing experience, this is my first real attempt at fiction. I’ve been surprised at the difficulty! Some of my skills transfer over; I still know the basic structure of the English language and I put commas in the right places more often than not, for example. But many other things are much different.
The hardest change I’ve had to make is the order I present information.
Python 3 Object-oriented Programming 3rd Edition
My publisher unveiled the third edition of Python 3 Object-oriented Programming today! This has been the culmination of several months of work.
Editing and updating the second edition was a pleasure. It was gratifying to discover that the content has aged well. This was not the case with the first edition; I did extensive restructuring and rewriting before I was satisfied with the second.
I accidentally started working on a new personal project for budgeting that I think others might be interested in. I haven’t open sourced any projects in quite a few years now, but if I actually finish an iteration of this project, I think I’ll probably share it under an open licence.
While I’ll be running the service locally, it is implemented entirely in Javascript React, and could easily be deployed as a SAAS.
