It's the final week of January! 🏄♀️🍹🎺
Do you have any wins to round up the first month of 2025?
Time for new weekly wins! What's your win this week?
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Same one as last week—my click-through rate on Upwork is soaring. 90% viewed this week. I'm gobsmacked.
Still no new contacts from it, but as we all know its a numbers game. No views, no contacts; no contacts, no contracts. So getting 90% of proposals viewed is mind-bogglingly good for me over the past 2 years, and it's Step One to people getting in touch.
I wish this would never end because the client who reads and says yes, can't be too far behind the client who reads!!
I feel seen. I feel affirmed. Now I'd like to feel contacted, please... :-)
This week, I've actually gotten a ton of work done, which is a first for this year. If I can keep it up throughout the weekend, I'll officially be up to date on all my work and deadlines.
Recovering mentally from the losses (the first ever) I made last year, I was pleasantly surprised when my bank manager (!) contacted me for a small project. Another new client hired me on UW. Not such a bad start to the new year after all.
Have taken a positive step towards software development.
A thousand more to go.
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Ravi It is apparently not cool, but I find VBA quite fun to develop. There are clunkier languages (looking at you, C-variants). With VBA's fairly simple structure, I find it just flows when you get going, and you have a bit of experience at it. And of course you're getting that quick visual feedback of the effects of your code, which has always been a big reason I enjoy coding.
Congrats on your progress 🎉
Ravi Is anybody using C for anything anymore? It has been a long time but the thing about C is it would let you do anything you want regardless of what that thing would do to you.
I pretty much only work in C# these days (other than various variants of JavaScript) in my little Visual Studio bubble. I did some Python work last year and have some ongoing mobile stuff in React Native and it all makes me want to throw up.
Product management course classes are finally over! Just have to turn in the final project now but the corrections from the last submission are minimal they say it's looking good so hopefully it won't be a lot of work.
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Mark Is anybody using C for anything anymore? It has been a long time but the thing about C is it would let you do anything you want regardless of what that thing would do to you.
True. C can be dangerous.
For me, C is a stepping stone.
I think I will give Python a try.
Fun fact:
"By the way, the language is named after the BBC show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and has nothing to do with reptiles. Making references to Monty Python skits in documentation is not only allowed, it is encouraged!"
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Mark I am pretty sure Python was invented by a guy who hates other programmers
I find that it's weird to structure Python into something after working in other languages. Still haven't properly wrapped my head around how it handles modules, even though I got one of my apps (collection of scripts?) to work by calling modules rather than running a .py script.
I love the availability of libraries though and the ease of working with them; once you've figured out environments (I'm using miniconda).
I'd definitely recommend it @Ravi, so versatile and lots you can do. Whilst it enforces a certain basic coding style, I'm not sure I would say it particularly 'teaches' in any other way. And so far my scripts end up resembling common php scripting (i.e. sprawling).
But I do enjoy coding in it and it is very well supported, community wise and library/API wise.
Mark As a long time C/C++/C# programmer the indention block thing is just ridiculous to me.
Yes, this is a weird concept. I much prefer the braces for demarcation.
I might use a wrapper function.
Still, having had hundreds of thousands lines of code deprecated with the arrival of Windows, I need to invest my time in some language that is more or less future-proof.
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