Years ago I wrote a bot that logs into my Facebook daily, checks to see whose birthday it is that day, and writes a happy birthday message on their page. Fun little project if you want to learn selenium. More on reddit.com

This is a bit odd, but let me explain. I made a Python script that shows the current phase of the moon as ASCII art , like this: .........@ ..............@@ ..................@@ ....................@@ .....................@@@ .....................@@@ .....................@@@ .....................@@@ ....................@@ ..................@@ ..............@@ .........@ (Currently a new moon started a few days ago.) The "automation" part is I set it (in the .zshrc file) to run whenever I open a new terminal window. It's a nice, quick, subtle way to show me the passage of time. I never really look at the moon nor think about it much. But now I have something that lets me look forward to full moons, half moons, etc. The Python script also has an animation mode and options for resizing, using different text characters, etc. I used an LLM to port it to Rust to have a compiled version. It's marginally "useful" but I do see it almost every day. More on reddit.com

Here's some books on these topics: Fluent Python — takes you through Python’s core language features and libraries, and shows you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable at the same time Serious Python — deployment, scalability, testing, and more Practices of the Python Pro — learn to design professional-level, clean, easily maintainable software at scale, includes examples for software development best practices Don't know much about videos, but perhaps these can help? https://github.com/s16h/py-must-watch — PyCon and other such talks https://calmcode.io/ — videos on testing, code style, args kwargs, data science, etc More on reddit.com

Off-putting music in the video :(

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