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Feb 2022
28m 26s

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Ceora has her second brain stored in Notion, complete with GIFs and pretty color to get that aesthetic.

Ancient history in blog years: Cassidy talks about the perils of being bleeding-edge instead of cutting-edge: Apollo Mission: The pros and cons of being an early adopter of new technology 

Everybody is aboard the VS Code train, which has the hottest TikTok around. Cassidy recommends the MonoLisa font helping viewers read your code during a livestream.

Today’s lifeboat goes to Bill the Lizard for Using IFF in Python.

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