Meta posts (about the blog)

Karl Knechtel

You're not imagining things - the blog has a whole new look, in large part as a result of switching to the Nikola site generator.

`fixup! added list`
The rest of the TODOwl

Happy new year to all.

Today's post is about a folder on my desktop named dev. It's where I've kept (for many years, well into my Windows-using days, even into the era when I used SVN rather than Git) all my working copies for my own projects (and forks of others'), mostly Python code of course. (I'm not sure how I organized things at the time, but there are projects in there dating back to 2006.)

`# TODO: finish todo list`

This is a difficult post to write, largely because of the self-critique involved. Which is part of why I've been putting it off. For months, if I'm honest with myself.

But putting it off has only made it harder to write. I also seem to have reached a point where it psychologically feels impossible to publish anything else here first. So, I'm finally forcing myself to write it now - during the holiday season, to prove to myself that I can.

It's no secret that the history of this blog so far has been dominantly one of false starts. Please allow me a moment to explain how that came to be.

Ah yes, I'm back, by the way

Attentive readers of my previous post may have found the following bit odd:

I had originally planned to write about this for the module's 19th anniversary - as my second post on this blog - before I got distracted from the project.

given that it actually was my second post on this blog.

Welcome to the ZahlBlog

After many years of trying to share wisdom on discussion forums, social media and Stack Overflow, I finally got around to starting a blog. I'll be talking about my experiences as a programmer, mainly with Python specifically.

Since I'm also passionate about teaching programming, I'll also be trying to give insight into the process of learning Python, and teaching Python. Later I also intend to include some articles aimed at troubleshooting specific, common problems that beginners have - in a format like Stack Overflow, except that I get to control the questions as well. My long term goal is to write a book.