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• Learning Python - Day 6-8: FastAPI, Pydantic, and the Bugs That Taught Me Both Jul 6, 2026

  Three days building an API on top of everything I'd learned so far, and discovering that FastAPI's type hints aren't decoration, they're the actual validation layer, which I only fully believed after watching a raised exception turn into a silent 200 response.

• Learning Python - Day 4-5: Where Python Stopped Feeling Like Tutorials Jun 27, 2026

  Two days in, I went from learning Python's syntax to actually designing with it: modules, JSON persistence, and a CLI task manager that broke in four different ways before it worked, each bug teaching me something I couldn't have gotten from reading alone.

• Learning Python - From a Frontend-Heavy JS Backend Dev to Python: My First 3 Days Jun 22, 2026

  I'm a frontend-heavy JS developer who's dabbled in backend with HonoJS and Express, but never gone deep. Here's what actually surprised me, broke, and clicked when I picked up Python for the first time, day by day.