I just finished listening to Simon Willison’s interview on the Software Misadventures podcast. I learned a lot from the interview, so I wrote up my notes. This is not a summary of the whole interview, just the parts that were new to me or that I’d like to remember. Simon Willison on the Software Misadventures podcast Who’s Simon Willison? One of the co-creators of Django, the most popular web framework for Python. One of the most popular indepedent bloggers on Hacker News. For the last ...| mtlynch.io
One of my goals for the year is to learn a new programming language. It’s been a while since I learned a new language, and I feel like a lot of the languages I know well (Go, Python, C++) are similar to each other, so I want to try getting out of my comfort zone a bit with a language that feels weird to me. Requirements Here’s what I’m looking for:| mtlynch.io
How do I stop myself from rewriting the same chapter fifty times?| mtlynch.io
Software bloggers can make the same mistakes for years that prevent readers from discovering their writing. I know because I'm one of them. Over time, I've learned techniques that help some blog posts succeed and the pitfalls that cause others to languish in obscurity.| refactoringenglish.com
