Wrapping up the instagram bot - actually covers lots of stuff I already knew from going through Automate The Boring Stuff With Python ... so I guess this counts as a consolidation exercise.

The new thing here is learning about xpath syntax, which seems pretty darn useful. On syntax generally - seems like knowing regex, xpath, and the ins-and-outs of css and html is vital when it comes to playing around with the web. My go-to way to deal with this has been ... Googling! But it takes time and breaks the coding flow.

Is there a better way to go about this? Have something in your IDE (say, a VSC app?) ... or use multiple monitors to account for window switching? I don't know.

Might finish this thing early. Next item on my list is building a data pipeline by following the 30 Days of Python tutorial. Might have lots of stuff I have covered watching sentdex's videos... Let's see. I'll update this post.

Update - gonna be quick:

• Gaining confidence with making an ETL pipeline. Ended up being lots like the sentdex tutorial on pandas, but like how more time is spent on the setup, which I feel is essential.
• os methods are starting to feel natural (os.path.join, os.makedirs, etc.)
• Learned it's OK to delete virtual environments. They can be re-installed after the fact when you run your program if you have a pipfile