About

What do you get when a middle-aged-ish real estate paralegal with insomnia and a laptop ends up with unexpected free time thanks to a global pandemic? Well ... you get me, a middle-aged-ish real estate paralegal with insomnia and a laptop who for the last 3 years has been learning Python, 30 minutes at a time. And now, 3 years into this journey, I write Python code for fun and ... well nothing. Just fun.

But the thing is, while I write less code that a professional developer but more than say, a beagle, I am still a rank amateur, a novice, a noob and while some of the code I write actually does useful stuff, it's not particularly elegant or pretty or well-organized or PEP-8 compliant. It is often just plain awkward. But it occasionally works and as a real, honest-to-goodness developer friend reminded me, working code is good code (I still wonder if she said that just to make me feel better)

In an effort to reinforce what I learn either through books, tutorials, or hard-won experience, I thought writing about what I do might help me. At least that's what the podcasts tell me. And maybe somewhere along the line I'll improve enough to call this site Not Completely Unattractive Python ... or something like that.