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I guess that's probably where all the questions are, thank you. I admit I've never even notice its existence!

Another one by the same author, which I heartily recommend, is "The Ideal Team Player". Read it many years ago, and I still use it as a basic framework when I interview candidates (in a nutshell, you want someone humble, hungry, and smart).

I personally wouldn't recommend "Death by Meeting", though. Maybe it's just because it didn't resonate much with me, so YMMV.

I usually take (half seriously) Machiavelli's view: luck does play a role, but it's not the biggest factor and the rest is up to you.

So, focus on what you can control, and luck should impact the result less.

Thank you, great pointers!

+1 on "Fluent Python" by Ramalho. I enjoyed and benefitted from the first edition so much that I'll get the second edition which is due to come out soon (Apr 29). I would say it targets intermediate developers more than beginners.

For me it was "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" by C. Cipolla. A very short book that illustrates, in a subtly-humorous way, how stupid people are far more powerful than one would think.

Thanks for the confidence boost! It's always too easy to self-criticize.

In the beginning I actually thought about Django or Flask (my background is mainly in Python), which I wrongly dismissed because I thought the main part would have been JS - so I chose ReactJS given the wide availability of tutorial and support. Flask would have solved some issues such as login etc. As they say, hindsight is 20/20 :)

I started off a template, which took away the need to think about web design. For React, I did follow quite a few tutorials - from how to route through pages, to hooks to unit tests - but the process is quite slow (though I do enjoy it).

And then there's setting up gitlab pipelines, docker images, deployments to AWS... it's a lot for a one-man band with only a few hours to dedicate.

I'll have a look at Netlify, maybe it could take some of the above away. Thanks for the suggestion!

I wasn't aware of neither bubble.io nor webflow. Good to know they're there. Given what I've got in mind seems more to be an app rather than a website, I'd probably give a shot to the former.

Maybe not, as I'm actually leveraging existing APIs, so effectively it'll be a wrapper around those.