Collect the first DEV Education Track badge!

As I sat in my RV, sipping coffee and staring at lines of code, I realized that learning never stops - even for a solo developer like myself. Recently, I decided to take on the DEV Education Track, and I'm excited to share my experience with you. While working on completing the first badge, I used my own tool, ShipDrop, to deploy a small project I built as part of the track.

One of the technical insights I gained from this experience was the importance of automating deployment processes. When building small projects, it's easy to get bogged down in manual deployment steps, taking away from the time you could be spending on writing code. ShipDrop's drag-and-drop interface allowed me to deploy my project in seconds, giving me more time to focus on the code itself. For example, I used the following code snippet to generate a static HTML file, which I then dropped into ShipDrop:

import yattag



doc, tag, text = yattag.Doc().tagtext()



with tag('html'):

    with tag('body'):

        with tag('h1'):

            text('Hello, World!')



result = doc.getvalue()

with open('index.html', 'w') as f:

    f.write(result)

This generated a simple HTML file that I could then deploy using ShipDrop.

One lesson I learned from this experience is the value of having the right tools for the job. By using ShipDrop to automate my deployment process, I was able to focus on learning and completing the DEV Education Track, rather than getting bogged down in manual deployment steps. If you're working on collecting your first DEV Education Track badge, I encourage you to explore tools like ShipDrop that can help streamline your workflow and make the process more efficient.