TSBT13: The Grind and Holidays
The holidays keep on coming.
Hear ye! Hear ye! Gather around, for I bring news both curious and grand!
Another week where we get to enjoy 4-days of work.
Some news, I have authored this week’s issue #227 of Django news. Check the issue here
Kelsey Hightower, known for his work on Kubernetes, just shared an update for the Kubernetes hard-way repository. The repository has been migrated to ARM64. ARM64 is a 64-bit extension of the ARM architecture. The ARM architecture focuses on efficiency and low power consumption. The tutorial on Kubernetes hard way has also been updated to be agnostic for cloud providers.
It's almost transfer season, and here is a list of some things you can do to stand out, as shared by Arpit. What I liked and that I practice is: ask a lot of clarifying questions and make a plan before jumping into the solution.
Do you often wonder how you can make better edits to your article or any writing piece you have? Eva shares what she thinks about when she edits. I would like to emphasize that whenever you write something, never assume knowledge, and if you do, highlight this in the prerequisites.
Work hard and take everything really seriously, by Tom MacWright, expresses what most of us grapple with. Whether to work long hours and care about everything or to maintain a work-life balance.
I think the honest answer is that most people can’t gain perspective and moderation and maturity by reading someone’s advice online. The wise 35-year old dads on Twitter can follow their own advice about work-life boundaries because they’ve suffered the consequences. There’s no shortcut to perspective: you have to acquire it by experiencing bad things and suffering consequences.
Tom MacWright
In every stage of your life, you will have different priorities. In some cases, you will work hard and break your back doing it; in others, you will have a good work-life balance. Priorities change, and that’s a good thing.
A few tips shared to help you level up as shared below:

System design knowledge is power, 10 must know system design concepts for interviews.
To lead others, you must first lead yourself. To change your circumstances, you must first change yourself.
Open source is a gift so grand—a gift that keeps on giving a helping hand. Learn from Rodrigo Girão Serrão, who has worked on FOSS for 503 days. Open source is the new sauce!
What happens under the hood when you send this SQL query
to Postgres Database
The word of the day is vicarious. Vicarious means experiencing something indirectly through someone else's experience. Example in a sentence: She spent her Thursday night glued to the swimming competition, living vicariously through the creativity and pressure faced by the swimmers.
I'm making my grand departure into the unknown. Until the next issue, my treasured reader, go forth, and may the odds ever be in your favour!


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