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Simon Willison

The 25 minute video for my #DjangoCon talk is out: "Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests"

I've posted the video along with an annotated version of the talk - with notes and links for each of the slides - here on my blog:

simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/26/

Screenshot showing a page from my blog which presents slides on the left and notes about the slides on the right. First slide: Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests Simon Willison, DjangoCon US 2022 Talk notes are linked from github.com/simonw Accompanying notes: This was the title | originally submitted to the conference. But | realized a better title was probably... Second slide: Coping strategies for the serial project hoarder Third slide: a still from a video of a monkey stuffing itself with buns. Notes: This video is a neat representation of my approach to personal projects: | always have a few on the go, but | can never resist the temptation to add even more
26 Nov 2022 at 15:56 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
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Simon Willison

I've decided to extend my personal rule that "the price of doing a project is that you have to write about it" to cover talks as well!

26 Nov 2022 at 15:57 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
Simon Willison

Guilt is the enemy of projects.

The more projects you have, the more guilty you feel about working on any one of them—because then you’re not working on the others, and those other projects haven’t yet achieved their goals.

I claim that the cure for guilt is to include comprehensive documentation and tests! Can't feel guilty if it's got those.

(That's what I tell myself anyway!)

Slide: GUILT is the enemy of projects
26 Nov 2022 at 16:16 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
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