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When people ask me where to start learning how to code, my answer is almost always the same: SQL. Not Python. Not JavaScript. SQL. The reason is simple: with SQL, you can be productive the same day you start learning it. If you already understand tables, rows, columns, and relationships
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If you’ve ever exported a CSV, cleaned it in Excel, uploaded it somewhere else, and repeated the process every month—you already know why automation matters. APIs are how you stop doing that. In this post, we’ll cover: * What an API is (in simple terms) * How systems like
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One of the biggest shifts in modern coding isn’t a new programming language or framework — it’s the rise of cloud code agents and how they change who can code and how code gets written. With tools like Cursor or Claude Code, coding is no longer about memorizing syntax.
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VS Code vs Cursor, Jupyter Notebooks, and Poetry for Dependencies Introduction Most accountants live in Excel. It’s our natural habitat: rows, columns, formulas, and pivot tables everywhere. But once you start coding, the landscape looks different — editors, notebooks, dependencies, environments, and a whole new set of tools. The good