• "The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it." – Dennis Ritchie

  No CS degree. Went from Excel macros to #Python 🚀

  Code wasn’t that clean at first, but by building a real-world solution I launched my dev career 💡

  Build first, polish later! 📈 (21 Mar 2025) - link

• List vs Generator in Python 🐍💡

  List: 835MB, 0.99s Generator: 192B, 0.00s 😲

  • Use sys.getsizeof() to check memory. • Use generators when you don’t need all values at once.

  Small change, big difference! 📈

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• @Pybites Books v2 is live! 🚀

  Simple, fast book tracking that incentivizes you to keep #reading 😎

  Gamified, clean design (Tailwind + Htmx 🙏), and loved by users already. 😍

  Let’s keep #books alive 💡, especially in this day and age. 📈

  Try it → pybitesbooks.com 📚 (19 Mar 2025) - link

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