#code_is_life

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YAY NEW ERRORS!

New errors are the best.  They mean you aren’t stuck!  Being stuck is the worst. frustration > despair

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code_log.episode_ten(pip=MakeOverMadMan)

Whycome when I ask pip for a shiny new hat, its go-to move is to throw the rest of my outfit away and find something to fit the hat?  IDK that I like that hat yet, pip!  Maybe find me a hat that matches the outfit I’m already wearing or no hat at all?  Doesn’t that seem more like what someone would be looking for most of the time?

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Incremental-to-moderate progress on my Techdegree projects.  I’ll have this capstone project knocked out in no time.

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code_log.episode_nine(metroidvania=True)

!The Treehouse Python Web Development Techdegree program I’m in has 12 units.  Units 7, 8, and 9 conclude with Django projects, as do units 11 and 12.  Unit 10 concludes with a Flask project.  So, I says to meself I says, “Why do I wanna put Flask stuff into my head when I’m just kinda almost sorta getting the hang of this Django business?  Maybe I skip the Flask unit, do all the Django units in a row to reinforce pattern recognition and circle back  to the Flask unit!  That way, I won’t lose time being stuck.” A bold plan.  And so I skipped unit 10, sailed mostly through unit 11, got stuck at the beginning of the capstone project and didn’t log in for a month. Anyway, I’m back on track now.  World domination is once again imminent.  Wish me luck, best friends and kind strangers!

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The obvi/not-so-obvi trick to having good coding days is to actually ask a someone when you're stuck. Rather than abandoning the task entirely to play video games forever.

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Khem Myrick on Twitter

“#HelloWorld! Today, like and unlike yesterday, the week before, the month before that, the year prior and the decade preceding, is the first day of the rest of my life. Today, I take a step that follows from the last year of my path. Tomorrow, I'll see where that step took me.”

HelloWorld! Today, like and unlike yesterday, the week before, the month before that, the year prior and the decade preceding, is the first day of the rest of my life. Today, I take a step that follows from the last year of my path. Tomorrow, I'll see where that step took me. I'm applying for a job today, is what I'm saying.  It's time to make this career switch happen!  Wish me luck, best friends and kind strangers! 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1121437149486706688

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code_log.episode_eight(regex_and_venvs_and_dns(ohmy))

So... now that I have working venvs and can follow along with my Django 1.9 course, I get to play with REGEX urls again.

So, that’s all well and fine.  Future headaches, but today, it’s fine.

But last night, the browsers on my Windows 7 desktop all decided they didn’t know how to internet anymore.  My wireless connection was good, I was remoted in from my Chromebook just fine.  But Chrome and Opera just couldn’t find Facebook of Youtube or Team Treehouse.  

This was a disaster scenario that kept me up to 3:30am until this:

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=my+browsers+aren+working+windows+7 led me to this:

https://ccm.net/forum/affich-452555-internet-connected-but-browser-not-working

Apparently that hard resets the TCP/IP DNS settings or something?  Feels like the kinda thing I should be able to understand/articulate.   Googling what “netsh” does lead me to the kind of brick wall I often encounter looking up a function with minimal context.  Namely, I didn’t know enough about the subject beforehand for the explanation to make any sense yet. lol

Anyway, hopefully Russians didn’t just invade my computer.  That is all.  

Code is life.

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