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Techstructive Weekly #17

Week #17

What a week, had written code through all the days, thought a lot about solving certain issues, integrated reviewed changes, and also wrote and created a video on the weekend.

This was the week of releasing the thing that I have been building over the span of the past 2 months and really felt good this Thursday to release it. Tested it and worked perfectly, now on to a new set of experiments and building on top of the thing in the upcoming weeks or months even, exciting times ahead.

I completed a 50-day writing routine by publishing three article series: 9, 21, and 17 pieces each. Those are related to mythology (I am revealing it now) but not just yet, let it grow, and will post it here shortly. It felt really good, now thinking of expanding the writing routine to something else or more personal and making reach a wider audience after all I want to see myself as a writer.

Stats for the week

  • Release the code written and experimented over the past 2 months

  • Prototype for the new changes as an enhancement on top of the experiment

  • Fixed 3 bugs

Plans for the next week

  • Streaming for the SSG project

  • Create a video for the Golang omitzero tag in 1.24

Quote of the week

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

— Nelson Mandela

While starting the quarter it seemed the task would be almost impossible or not expected to be going to release, but this week it was released. From experiment to release, it felt like a journey, I enjoyed it, initially, it was a hurdle, but after falling a couple of times, getting up, learning, and diving a little deep, helpful feedback from my mentors and friendly environment, I am here on the other side of the hurdle. It really feels impossible until it’s done, believe in yourself, because if you don’t no one will believe in you.

Created

Read

Watched

  • Using sort the proper way in Python:
    That was clever and opened a few mind doors of thinking stuff clearly about keys , the way sorted takes in a list or an iterable is interesting and opens it to a wide variety of options to use it to throw into.

  • How to Finish Programming Projects?
    This is a interesting and eye opener video, I initially used to create projects by taking it as a learning opportunity, but gradually the path to creating something big or focusing on the features too much caused a friction and lead to whole lot of issues in the way. One is burnout, the other is no progress at all instead of tiny day-by-day progress.

  • What did you just do, CSS?
    Those are some high-value changes in CSS, I am not much into CSS but looking at the added changes, it seems to be a lot and a game changer to some extent. Turing complete :)

  • FreeCodeCamp (Quincy Larson) interview with Tech with Tim
    This is a good talk, while growing up as a developer, I watched Tim while learning Python and Django, so he has been a teacher to me in some way or the other, and seeing his raw thoughts behind his life, feels good to listen to.

  • Write your own programming Language: Computerphile
    This was an interesting one, the power of the SPLIT function in python really should be the title of this video, just kidding. But the approach is what makes me wonder if that’s the way programming languages are created, really.
    That is a bit obnoxious to think in that way, it will become quite a mess after a while (I am not talking about his code but just the approach). I thaught it would be like the theory of computing of state machines right?

Learned

  • Learned how to install and build golang from source for the latest versions as described here.

  • The difference between setdefault and defaultdict

    I learned that setdefault adds a key with a default value only if explicitly accessed, like this:

    my_dict = {'a': 1}  
my_dict.setdefault('b', 100)
Adds 'b': 100 only if 'b' doesn't exist
print(my_dict)  # {'a': 1, 'b': 100}

    On the other hand, defaultdict automatically assigns a default value for missing keys:

    from collections import defaultdict
my_dict = defaultdict(int)
my_dict['a'] += 1  # Initializes 'a' with 0, then increments it
print(my_dict)  # {'a': 1}

  • Learned about the iterator in Golang

    The iter package released in Golang 1.23 introduces Seq and Seq2 for custom sequence iteration in Go. Using these, you can define custom iterators that yield values or key-value pairs dynamically

Tech News

  • Android 16: Developer Preview
    This is really amazing, the terminal emulator concept really is cool but surely it will be revamped and improved Google supporting this on Android is in itself a big thing in my opinion. It will increase adaptability of terminals and make it really easier for anyone to use and interact with them.

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That’s it from this week, hope you did well this week, and have a happy week and weekend ahead!

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