I've found smaller, more frequent releases to be one of the simplest ways to make safe and steady progress and to get meaningful feedback faster

but also don't forget to take some breaks and celebrate progress along the way ...

One of the fun things about software development is stumbling upon fundamental concepts and patterns at some point in your career, often in some roundabout way, and then suddenly your whole perspective has shifted

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yes! and not just for python or code newbies either - this is a valuable debugging approach for all types of code and many other problems. What did I expect, what actually happened, and what tools can I use to examine the state at different stages

the best way to learn about pinning exact versions is to have a few production outages or failed deployments because that one dependency you didn't pin - the one you thought you could always just trust on latest - just shipped a fun new bug

Most problems can be interesting if I take the time to dig into them, but the most rewarding thing is solving the problems we've been avoiding for some reason - making the transition from 'that looks hard' to 'we can do it!'