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I keep on trucking along with the port to Django and how smooth coding has been these days. Here's the "to-do" list from yesterday: Things to do: * Get scraper to work with pagination (for now, it just scrapes the first 20 jobs that appear in the

Yesterday was the day. It all paid off. I wouldn't have been able to do it so fast, especially the debugging, without Ai. But it is working! I have the first version of my scraper live (in my development environmnent) in Django! 20 jobs scraped and saved to

So yesterday was not yet another failure, but it was a way to discover how not accomplish the task. Yes, I failed again yesterday. But not to be confused with me not making any progress! Plus, I made a new "friend". I really struggled yesterday with trying to

So yesterday, I failed. I failed to integrate Django and Scrapy under the same project. I am using a very opinionated boilerplate. What I like about it is that it installs Tailwind (with node) and makes it work with zero config, it includes auth, celery and many other things that

The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding

I am often amazed how it is in the world of "computers" and how awesome some people are. For a long time, I had been wondering how difficult it would be to integrate Scrapy, a powerful python scraping library, and Django, my webdev framework of choice. I had

During my daily walk today, I was listening to an episode of the Tropical MBA podcast. One of the most interesting tidbits I found was that while we normally hear people talk about their fear of failure, the opposite is often overlooked.

Slow down. Think about where you were last year. All that uncertainty. All the complexity. The moving pieces! You made it! You made it happen! Have you slowed down, stopped, and marvelled at it? Cut yourself some slack and give yourself a breather. You are being unfairly hard on yourself.

In my last post, I wrote about how I had been doing some reflections lately. I have kind of continued doing that, and after writing for myself about what I consider to be the best financial period of my life (material for a future post), I came to conclude on a few things.

I have been on reflection mode for a while now. It hasn't been zen-mode, guru-like reflection time. It has been a lot more haphazard than that.

It's been a while since I have written here. It's been a while since I have written, at all. Even for myself. I miss it.

I came across an interesting [youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJQj1uKtnus) that led me to read the [Cult of Done Manifesto.](https://arc.net/l/quote/fxlwfuhc) I will copy paste it here for quick reference: 1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and