Better Everyday At last, success! 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
Better Everyday Figured out how not 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
JobsInEnglish A little bit of failure 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
Better Everyday Selflessness and Altruism 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
Better Everyday Kind 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.
Better Everyday The Cult of Done 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
Better Everyday New Wind I decided to go further and deeper into the rabbit hole today. Installed Docker desktop on my M1 Macbook Air. Installed Cookiecutter via brew. Started a new project with Django Cookiecutter. The plan is to port jobsinenglish.dk slowly to a Django project so I can start developing it again.
Better Everyday Detail View I managed to squeeze in some code in the nick of time to not lose my GH coding streak. I don't know why I had been dreading coding this feature. There is nothing special about it, but I guess I was just maybe a bit overwhelmed. I managed