📝 March 2026 Blogroll: Share your blog posts!

Webweaving
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I feel this in my soul - and I love your new blog layout so much

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And now, only two more parts to go before The Textbook Case is complete.

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The Things We Eat on Vacation

Basically a reminder post to myself on two restaurants I ate in in Budapest

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How an old joke becomes funny again.

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Small note: I moved my blog over to Bear so if anyone was following via RSS you’ll need to update your feed.

I’ve been doing a lot of “life type” of updates.

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It’s Wednesday so you know what that means! Another tiara post. This week I’m bringing you Colorful Floral Tiaras for Spring. Which one is your favorite?

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I would love some input from other programmers who use their skills for both work and hobbies, even though I think I may have figured it out just by writing this. :upside_down_face:

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Dunno how the job market compares between webdev and data science. Both are often mentioned online, but that’s just hearsay. Python however is the world’s most popular programming language for the seventh year in a row, and almost always mentioned in the same breath as both subfields. So it’s probably worth learning regardless. Ask if you need help!

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I’ll definitely be learning it either way, but I’m at the fork in the course I’m taking where it has asked what I am more interested in focusing on. That’s what I need to make the decision about. Do I learn what’s most relevant to web dev or data science first?

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I love the pansy tiara! The “Christmassy” tiara is a close second. That said, I appreciate the lily tiara for how extravagant it looks!

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As a “Junior Data Scientist” does that mean you use R? Or Excel?

I find myself using Python both for work and hobbies, (and did find myself building 80% of a SSG in Python before deciding that was silly and just using 11ty instead)

I find it a VERY helpful skill for my work. These days I rarely use a calculator, or even the calculator app on my computer, because I always have a terminal open with a Python REPL environment, and it is so much easier than anything else once you get used to it. I got absolutely hooked and now only use excel if I am forced to. So for any data adjacent field, I think it is a skill worth learning.

But also, skills are skills. Learning Python for Data Science will make learning python for webdev easier in the future, and learning python for web dev will make learning Python for data science easier, so I wouldn’t stress too much.

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That’s the thing. I don’t really use anything. I am not actually a “Junior Data Scientist”. I am just running already written Python scripts via Jupyter Lab notebooks to generate output to send to the Sales team. I would like to understand it more so I can fix any issues that arise on my own. Currently, I have to pass that off to my colleagues who are already busy with other things. Which is why I was hired!

But like I said in the blog entry, I’m unlikely to be doing it for much longer thanks to Dutch employment laws so I’m also like “Is this worth it right now?”.

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I say better understanding is a worthy goal regardless of immediate utility. Sometimes you don’t know what a thing is good for until you have it.

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Since you’re into web dev at home, focus on that for now. You can always look up the data science material when you actually need it for your day job.

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I rewrote a post from my personal blog archives I thought was a good candidate for my new blog. It’s much better now!

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This is the first time I heard python being the most popular language. I looked it up and can see the TIOBE index and IEEE spectrum marked it as the most popular, but the Stack Overflow developer survey shows javascript as the most popular, which is what I expected (and html/css as 2nd, which also makes sense to me).

In any case, to weigh in on “language for work prospects or personal enjoyment” I’m definitely in the “I work to live, not vice versa” camp. And honestly, the future looks so uncertain right now that I wouldn’t choose a language based on what I think will make the most money in the future. With AI, the contradictions of capitalism ever-grinding away, and so on it just doesn’t feel “which skill or language is most likely to pay me in the future” is something any of us can confidently answer. So I say web dev, because it has intrinsic value as an enjoyable hobby :slight_smile: .

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