I've been meaning to write this post for a long time - I just never worked up the nerve.
I want to tell you about my pet project.
Three years ago I got into Python. Like a lot of people, I started with online courses - and most of it went in one ear and out the other.
So, on the side, I decided to write a little screen-pet program. A simple idea, but it felt genuinely interesting to me - so interesting that I dropped the course for it.
Then came the small freelance gigs, my first real tasks. And every time I looked at the code of seasoned, bearded senior devs and compared it to mine, I felt ashamed - God forbid anyone sees this - so I'd quietly patch mine up on the sly.
