I always meant to keep myself busy this year. However, I didn’t expect for life to keep me as busy as it did. Home maintenance, helping friends with mental health, the way my unemployment has made me get out there and attend more events, working on socializing and networking. I had started this year wanting to make this website and immediately start filling out my portfolio with employer friendly projects that show off my skills from last year’s more serious pursuit of programming and the decade off and on of hobbyist casual programming and tech experience. However, changes made to the specifications and my continuous tinkering of the specs and frameworks of the project has ultimately resulted in things remaining rather stagnant. I’d code a component to the project, and then ask myself why this is here. I’ve decided that my website isn’t where I’d like it to be but it’s time my portfolio got some meat in it

Why Django?

I have a habit of picking a shiny things, and I felt django was a good way of dodging that just a little. Python always comes in handy in a programming environment. I don’t have a ton of experience with backend frameworks outside of evaluating Spring for a work project. Django made the most sense, Python is a language I’d use elsewhere, Django is used in production, it’s robust. So we’re learning Django. Full disclosure, my main plan is just to write a simple API for a simple dynamic element, I’m thinking a guest book.

What’s the timeline?

I plan to have an mvp by the end of saturday. It’s going to be a bit tight, but I want to keep to deadlines better from now on. Deliverables are meant to be delivered, not to mention I really want to establish a pace.