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Resolve to Try New Things

Pragmatic Resolution Three for 2024

Margaret Eldridge
The Pragmatic Programmers
3 min readJan 6, 2024

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Stepping outside your comfort zone can be fun, fulfilling, and can help you to grow as a person. Take a chance this year and challenge yourself to gain new skills, find new interests, and add variety to your routine. Use promo code ny2024 to save 42 percent on these adventuresome ebooks now through January 10, 2024.

Currently Away by Bruce Tate, with photos by Maggie Tate

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The walls were closing in on Bruce and Maggie Tate. Isolation forced on them by the pandemic, combined with America’s growing political factionalism, threatened their bonds with community and family. Something had to change. Maggie’s surprising answer: buy a boat, learn to pilot it, and embark on the Great Loop. For nine months Bruce and Maggie navigated rivers, coastal waters, lakes, locks, and loss. Against all odds, they conquered the Loop, and along the way found common cause across political divides with new friends while blowing the walls off their world.

Forge Your Future with Open Source by VM (Vicky) Brasseur

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Technical Blogging by Antonio Cangiano

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Successful technical blogging is not easy but it’s also not magic. Use these techniques to attract and keep an audience of loyal, regular readers. Leverage this popularity to reach your goals and amplify your influence in your field. Get more users for your startup or open source project, or simply find an outlet to share your expertise. This book is your blueprint, with step-by-step instructions that leave no stone unturned. Plan, create, maintain, and promote a successful blog that will have remarkable effects on your career or business.

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