My dear beloved reader, it's a pleasure to have you join me again!

Its too hot and we are currently munching on ice cubes, ice cream and really cold drinks. The only upside to the weather is its perfect for a really good and nice long swim, don’t forget sunscreen.

As we fight off the extreme temperatures, we can swim in these recommendations of extensions to have on your Visual Studio Code editor. I found some interesting extensions, for example, Bookmarks , which allows you to bookmark specific lines of your code, and Path Intelligence for your file paths, among others. In addition to the list of extensions, there is also an ongoing discussion on this that can make your life a little bit better and easier as you code away. However, the best tool to have is a glass or bottle of water to hydrate as you endure long hours.

It's a free world filled with varying opinions on different ways of doing what we do. Django developers will love this article by Will, in which he shares the 20 Django packages he uses in every project. I liked this article because I got to learn about django-allauth, whitenoise, django-q2, model-bakery and pytest-cov. The goal is to work smart, and packages do help.

Have you ever wondered how to implement magic links in your Django apps? This article makes it considerably easier to implement magic links.

Roses are red, violets are blue; GitHub's where code dreams come true. Pull requests bloom, comments unfold, branches diverge, stories untold, Be a better developer with these Git good practices.

Software engineering does not start when you write code; it involves conceptualisation, clarity on what is needed to achieve the goal, and a lot of communication. Through this discussion, you can learn a couple of new things, like tools to use when thinking through an idea, among other factors.

Design patterns were introduced by Christopher Alexander, who described problems in architecture using patterns that would solve specific problems and be part of a larger design system. This resonated with software development and was adapted to how we build software. This article takes you through how to select a design pattern for your needs.

Imagine you are in an interview, specifically the system design phase of the interview. The first question they ask is: Design Spotify. Jinkies! You either know it or you don’t. In this article, Hayk Simonyan ensures that you not only know it but also understand it.

Word of the week is impasse. Impasse means a situation where progress is not possible. To exemplify using a sentence: The scientist and the artist reached an impasse.

I'm making my grand departure into the wild waters of life. Until the next issue, my beloved reader, go forth, and may the odds be ever in your favour!