The Increment of Improvement

Learning to code takes time, like anything creative

Sara Harvey
Nov 4 · 2 min read
Pliers, window, code and my version of a woodcut of a man using a nokogiri saw

I was hitting errors on a coding project one afternoon in June like a fly bouncing its face against a window over and over. I stopped when FedEx delivered our new vice grip pliers. We wanted to install the air conditioner in our bedroom, but a child guard blocked the window, and the pliers were our key to cool.

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