Setattr Season 1

Published December 8, 2014 · 2 Minute Read · ∞ Permalink

Let’s cut to the chase: today, setattr season 1: developer tools is available for preorder on Gumroad, with release January 6, 2015. It’s going to cover:

So what’s a setattr season, you may ask? It’s a collection of videos and exercises that get you to learn and keep knowledge stuck in your head so you have it when you need it. Python libraries and tools tend to be in little clusters: if you know one, knowing the others is very helpful since they tend to play off each other’s strengths and patch over weaknesses. As a big example consider Django and that ecosystem, but also sqlalchemy and sqlalchemy-utils and related libraries. The point of releasing the videos all together is that it lets us go through the whole of one of those little constellations at a time.

If you’ve been following along at home, you know I’ve been making lessons and blog posts and sending emails for this thing for a couple months now. To be honest, most of that time was spent on making a subscription site. But then Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman of internet fame released Just Fucking Ship, and I bought it, read, it, and did a giant facepalm. I was focusing all my effort on something that wasn’t getting the product any closer to shipping. So I dropped that (for now) and now I’m going to distribute through Gumroad, where I can just upload a file with content and have it distributed automatically to everyone who bought it. No mess, no fuss, and no implementing payment provider integration myself. And it’s going out January 6!