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My small command-line project works, has basic tests and solves the problem I built it for. But I keep finding reasons to rewrite it: cleaner abstractions, prettier output, one more option. Three weeks later I've learned...
I'm learning Git branches and have somehow turned a small personal project into a forest of branches named `test`, `new-test` and `fix-final`. I know branches are useful for isolating risky changes, but creating one for...
I spent a while changing retry logic in a tiny API client because my tests kept failing in different ways. It turned out the sample responses I had saved were inconsistent: one had a missing field, another had an old fie...
I open documentation for a JavaScript library and the first example already assumes I understand promises, modules and several build tools. I'm trying to solve one small problem, but every paragraph sends me to another u...
I want to automate boring work: rename files, clean spreadsheets, read CSVs and maybe call an API later. I'm not choosing a language to maximize future salary or prepare for interviews. Python looks like the obvious prac...
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