#alwayslearning — Public Fediverse posts

Yesterday, I wrote a toot in haste and exasperation about something I was reading and immediately wanted to edit it but for some reason it struck a chord and just went off. A few people have picked up on the obvious problems with my wording and I'm sincerely grateful for that but I'm still amazed at why it has received so much support. I always second guess myself when I write but maybe just going with your gut and being a little raw is a better way to connect.

#alwayslearning

Yesterday, I wrote a toot in haste and exasperation about something I was reading and immediately wanted to edit it but for some reason it struck a chord and just went off. A few people have picked up on the obvious problems with my wording and I'm sincerely grateful for that but I'm still amazed at why it has received so much support. I always second guess myself when I write but maybe just going with your gut and being a little raw is a better way to connect.

#alwayslearning

@MLE_online

I learned a thing today, thank you!

#AlwaysLearning

@MLE_online

I learned a thing today, thank you!

#AlwaysLearning

@p I learned today that I can modify something called the PATH variable in my VSCode Terminal window and put my frequently used scripts in the place I added.

But be sure to include the previous contents of PATH to your new one, otherwise your VSCode Terminal will stop working properly.

Here's the zsh configuration:

OLD_PATH="$PATH" 
PATH="/User/youruser/frequent_scripts:"$OLD_PATH"" 
# don't forget this
export PATH

#SysAdmin #DevOps #AlwaysLearning

@p I learned today that I can modify something called the PATH variable in my VSCode Terminal window and put my frequently used scripts in the place I added.

But be sure to include the previous contents of PATH to your new one, otherwise your VSCode Terminal will stop working properly.

Here's the zsh configuration:

OLD_PATH="$PATH" 
PATH="/User/youruser/frequent_scripts:"$OLD_PATH"" 
# don't forget this
export PATH

#SysAdmin #DevOps #AlwaysLearning

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Upskilling for emerging tech isn’t a future problem. It’s your job today. #Upskilling #EmergingTech #CIOLeadership #LearningCulture #TechReadiness #FutureOfWork #DigitalTransformation #SkillsAreStrategy #AlwaysLearning #TechLeadership
https://medium.com/@sanjay.mohindroo66/upskilling-for-emerging-tech-a-leaders-playbook-d145c4a54293

Oh my life...
Was invited to the Callebault Chocolate and Pastry Demonstration at Conestoga College. It's more for kitchen professionals, but learned so much! And tasted so much, too. Afterwards, the culinary students put on a tasty reception buffet.

Deets in alt text.

#AlwaysLearning #Food #Chocolate #Mastonom

Oh my life...
Was invited to the Callebault Chocolate and Pastry Demonstration at Conestoga College. It's more for kitchen professionals, but learned so much! And tasted so much, too. Afterwards, the culinary students put on a tasty reception buffet.

Deets in alt text.

#AlwaysLearning #Food #Chocolate #Mastonom

Upskilling for emerging tech isn’t a future problem. It’s your job today. #Upskilling #EmergingTech #CIOLeadership #LearningCulture #TechReadiness #FutureOfWork #DigitalTransformation #SkillsAreStrategy #AlwaysLearning #TechLeadership
https://medium.com/@sanjay.mohindroo66/upskilling-for-emerging-tech-a-leaders-playbook-d145c4a54293

We've discovered that expertise brings awareness of how much more there is to learn. Each project reveals new techniques, materials, or approaches. The journey expands rather than concludes.
Tag someone who's still learning after decades of building. Growth mindset keeps us sharp.
What's the most recent technique you've learned? Experienced builders remain students.

#endlessjourney #alwayslearning #bobberculture #growthminset

🎥 👉 @marvschwering48

Tests are passing?! I can go to bed. Yay.

Mini Rack Root update: I've been working on search functionality, because I don't have enough in the backlog already for Rack Root, and I've discovered just how little I know about database searches. After MANY iterations back and forth on all the ways not to do it, I've finally found a working piece of code.

I even used ChatGPT, which I almost never do and it was mostly helpful. Sometimes a search engine won't quite get you there and that's how ChatGPT helped. Here's an example with code, help me fix it.

I've also had oh-so-much fun with database schemas being case sensitive (camel case is out, snake case is in), triggers going...somewhere unknown, calling make_searchable() in the right places, and making sure my test environment was _really_ doing what it should have when I dropped the tables to recreate everything. Testing is close to, but not the same as, day to day use when an app is running, of course.

That's a really good stopping point for tonight and I will take it. 55 tests, all green.

#homelab #programming #rackroot #opensource #sqlalchemy #python #postgresql #alwayslearning

Tests are passing?! I can go to bed. Yay.

Mini Rack Root update: I've been working on search functionality, because I don't have enough in the backlog already for Rack Root, and I've discovered just how little I know about database searches. After MANY iterations back and forth on all the ways not to do it, I've finally found a working piece of code.

I even used ChatGPT, which I almost never do and it was mostly helpful. Sometimes a search engine won't quite get you there and that's how ChatGPT helped. Here's an example with code, help me fix it.

I've also had oh-so-much fun with database schemas being case sensitive (camel case is out, snake case is in), triggers going...somewhere unknown, calling make_searchable() in the right places, and making sure my test environment was _really_ doing what it should have when I dropped the tables to recreate everything. Testing is close to, but not the same as, day to day use when an app is running, of course.

That's a really good stopping point for tonight and I will take it. 55 tests, all green.

#homelab #programming #rackroot #opensource #sqlalchemy #python #postgresql #alwayslearning

I need to learn more about how databases work and the best way to setup relationships in SQLModel. I was working on Rack Root tonight and am still running into an issue with some circular dependencies I'm having between various tables. I need these relationships to enhance the data/utility of the app, but might need to rethink how I'm actually putting them together.

The other fun part of this is that I'm learning that the way I test the app and the way I run the app isn't always the same. The tests will run fine the first time against my test Postgres container, but subsequent runs don't work because of how I tell the test DB to drop all data before running the tests. It's complaining about the relationships, but really I think I need to tell it to either cascade delete or just ignore something.

#homelab #rackroot #programming #webdev #fastapi #sqlmodel #databases #alwayslearning