Mo's blog

I found this Vince Lombardi quote recently from a co-worker of mine (thanks Aaron): “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi

Customizable graphics? Enough said. Can’t wait for this to debut. Hopefully I can afford to get it.

Wow, I can’t actually believe I passed the Python Institute Certified Entry-Level Python certification. I was originally planning to take it in May 2023 but I kept getting 50% on all of my practice tests (I also found that Python Institute has a really cool and free Python course). So, I ended up delaying the […]

I got another C++ course completed. This time it was an object-oriented introduction to C++ taught by Saldina Nurak. This one got more into encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance and polymorphism. I think the more I go on this journey, I’ve decided that aside from finding interesting content, I’m looking for good teachers. I think a lot […]

My mind is absolutely blown away by Django, now that I have some idea of what it is (emphasis is on “some idea”). I always wondered how HTML got rendered dynamically and now that I’ve seen it, it’s quite amazing. I’m not sure how far I want to look into Django at this point since […]

Whenever I watch a training video or a YouTube video, depending on the narrator, I definitely use the playback speed. Whenever a speaker has been too slow for me, adjusting the playback speed to 1.2 is great. For a fast talker, slowing them down also helps a lot. This is a pretty good, simple hack […]

Happy to announce that I passed this back in January 2023. This one was pretty tough. My credential on Credly.