Leon 🇬🇧

To anyone new that follows: Thanks! This is my personal account, which means I’ll often post about: 👉 New coding packages 📦 👉 New learnings 📚 👉 Formula 1 🏎️ 👉 TV & Movies 📺 Stay if you like it

I use NixOS btw

@typecraft.dev lots of new features in neovim and breaking changes to plugins since your setup series. Is 2026 the year for a fresh setup tutorial?

@biomejs.dev does Biome support a global configuration that it will look for if there’s no local project config, like Ruff does in Python? It would be cool to not have to create the same config for every project.

Giving @warp.dev another whirl. This has improved drastically since I last tried it. Looks as though it may have persistent session management like tmux/zellij, but I need to look into that a bit more. Give it a try (yes it's a referral - access directly if you prefer): app.warp.dev/referral/R93...

@wagslane.bsky.social I’m seeing BST examples implemented using a single class and also using 2 classes (node and tree). Are there any reasons why you might choose one approach over the other?

I've been quiet but still coding. I've been focusing my attention on working through the Boot.dev curriculum by @wagslane.bsky.social. Recently finished building the static site generator project - what a brain melter that was! It's done, and I ranked up to Archsage.

33/100 #100DaysofCode with #Python 👉 Built an automatic emailer whenever the ISS is overhead using smtplib, datetime, and requests packages. 34/100 👉 Updated the trivia game from day 17 to retrieve questions from an API, and added a UI with tkinter.

27/100 #100DaysofCode 👉 Tkinter tinkering 👉 Labels, Entry, Buttons, Checkboxes, Window 👉 Mini-project: Miles to KM converter #python #dev #noob

25/100 #100DaysofCode 👉 Pandas DataFrames 👉 Pandas Series 👉 Pandas and CSV Files 26/100 👉 List comprehension 👉 Dictionary comprehension 👉 Comprehensions with Pandas DataFrames #Python #Dev #Junior #noob

24/100 #100DaysofCode with Python: 👉 Learned to open, read, and write with "with..as.." and open() 👉 Rabbit holed away from the course and learned os.path and pathlib Path() 👉 Built a basic mail merger 👉 Updated snake game to persist high scores #Python #Dev #JuniorDev #availtohire 🙏

23/100 or #100DaysofCode: 👉 Completed a "Turtle Crossing" game (basically frogger). #BootDev 👉 Made a start on the Static Site Generator project. #Python #Dev #GameDev #Backend

22/100 #100DaysofCode 👉 Built Pong, played Pong, lost Pong. 👉 used the built-in turtle graphics lib to build it.

21/100 #DaysofCode 👉 Completed the Snake Game 🎉🎉 #BootDev 👉 Finally got around to finishing off the Functional Programming course. This one blew my my mind. Got it all done but the first thing I am going to do is... do it again.

18/100 #100DaysofCode 👉 More OOP Practice 👉 Creating 'spot art' with the turtle package. 19/100 👉 More playing with the Turtle package 👉 Created a Turtle Race game 20/100 👉 Even more Turtle package tinkering 👉 Started on a snake game. Classic

Developers, what is your advice to new devs looking to enter the industry in 2025? Where would you start? How would you plan your roadmap?

17/100 of #100DaysofCode with Python. 👉 How to create classes 👉 Adding attributes and methods 👉 Using multiple classes to create a quiz game

16/100 of #100DaysofCode 👉 OOP classes, methods, attributes 👉 creating virtual environment / venv 👉 installing packages with PIP 👉 Rebuilt yesterdays coffee machine using classes

In today’s episode of Boot.dev I finished off Decorators. All was going well, decorators made sense, *args and **kwargs made sense and… then @wagslane.bsky.social threw a decorator factory in the example and my head fell off. Thanks Lane. I also hit Sage rank 🎉

15/100 of #100DaysofCode with #Python: 👉 Moved into the 'Intermediate' section 💪 👉 Completed the 'Coffee Machine' project 👉 Spotted and implemented an opportunity to use currying that I learned earlier with boot.dev 🎉 github.com/ionztorm/pyt... #devs #pythondevs #coffee

Just finished functional transformations and closures on Boot.dev. I think I actually like functional programming! #functional #python #code #100DaysofCode

14/100 #100DaysofCode 👉 No learning in this days set of tutorials, this one simply sets a challenge - write a higher or lower game. Challenge accepted, and completed.

Already more followers on here than I ever had on the other place, and I’m a noob, I don’t post anything interesting 😅 thanks, y’all!

13/100 #100DaysofCode with Python: 👉 Syntax Errors 👉 Runtime Errors 👉 Logical Errors 👉 Debugging Day 24 of Boot.dev - not much new here, a few exercises on functional transformations. Switched to a custom @neovim.io config, finished a modular language loader for lsp, for matters, and linters

12/100 #100DaysofCode 👉 Local Scope, Global Scope, Namespace 👉 Block scope (or lack of!) 👉 Built obligatory number guessing game Day 23 of boot.dev: 👉 Completed JS Course 👉 Completed Python Recursion module 🥵

I just finished Recursion in the Functional Programming course over at Boot.dev. That got tough! @wagslane.bsky.social those last 3 challenges took me an hour and a half! evil! But it feels like a good achievement!

I've been playing around with #Ghostty for quite some time now (early beta). Found this Matrix shader, which, although not practical, is very fun!

11/100 of #100DaysofCode with Python. First capstone project (Beginner) - build a Blackjack game. It works according to the instructions - not entirely sure if I've gone overboard and overcomplicated things. Check it out here: github.com/ionztorm/pyt...

9/100 of #100DaysofCode: 👉 Dictionaries 👉 Nested data structures 👉 Built a silent auction project Day 22 of boot.dev by @wagslane.bsky.social . Smashed out around 13,000 XP on the boss fight doing Recursion and may have snook some JS in for good measure, and hit sorcerer rank. My name is red now.

Day 8 of #100DaysofCode. Continuing with python, I covered more basics : function parameters and arguments. Positional and key word arguments. Then built a Caesar Cypher.

Day 6 of #100DaysofCode continuing with Python. No boot.dev today (I did 1 exercise to keep my streak going) but I did 2 days of the 100 days syllabus. Today was Functions and While loops. Understanding blocks and indentation. Also did Day 7 and completed the Hangman game.

Sampled a different dev environment today. I actually quite liked it: Ghostty + Zellij + Helix + Yazi + Lazygit. All kitted in gruvbox dark with MonoLisa fronting the font face. Very fast setup, smooth as butter

Day 5 of #100DaysOfCode with Python - still on the basics - loops today, and built a password generator. Day 23 of Boot.dev - finished Pure functions (I said the wrong topic yesterday!) and made a start on recursion.

My dev env is Ghostty Term + @neovim.io + tmux + Yazi. What's yours and why?

Day 4 of #100DaysOfCode with Python - still on the basics - random numbers and lists today. On the other hand, Day 22 of Boot.dev was spent covering Pure functions including filter, reduce, map, zip, and intercept.