When I started, I couldn't write a line of Python. I'd spent 20 years in BI — SQL Server, SSIS, Qlik — and the idea of building a desktop app felt like stepping off a cliff. So I taught myself Python, automation testing, and Git from scratch. There were false starts — solutions that looked perfect on paper and collapsed in practice. My only stakeholder (me) was an utter nightmare — always asking for "one more feature" and "couldn't we just tweak this a little?" I decided it had to work on a Windows, Mac and Linux, even though I didn't own a Mac and rarely use Windows. I became obsessed with making it fast enough to process hundreds of statements in minutes, even though I only have about 300. I built a full star-schema relational database, even though all

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  • 原作者：/u/boscorat https://www.reddit.com/user/boscorat
  • 发布时间：2026/9/12 13:38:41