✨ Happy New Year 2026, my good friends! 🎉 Another year comes to an end, and a brand-new one is just beginning 🚀 Thank you all for your comments, subscriptions, support, friendship, and honest feedback—it truly means a lot to me 🙏💙 I wish you an amazing new year filled with prosperity, knowledge, good health, and plenty of fun with programming 💻✨
This is my last blog post on DEV.TO on how to properly configure Git on your machine with GitHub for both Linux (Debian based) and Windows - Hopefully it will be useful to someone, somewhere. Link: dev.to/bekbrace/git-and-github-setup-for-linux-and…
Anyone who’s seriously coded knows a hard truth about our modern programming culture: discipline is collapsing. Once, coders, interns, and engineers understood that mastery meant focus, persistence, and responsibility. A developer, even after hours of debugging, wrote clean code and tested it thoroughly; a junior respected the senior’s guidance; and a burnout coder, if he made mistakes, learned quietly and fixed them—not flaunt buggy pull requests as if chaos were cool. Discipline wasn’t optional—it was freedom. Freedom to create without fear, to ship software that mattered.
Today, too many programmers mistake shortcuts, procrastination, and abandoned projects for “freedom.” Half-finished apps, messy commits, and ignored code reviews are flaunted proudly on GitHub. Learning paths are abandoned after a single frustration. Senior devs tolerate sloppy code, and teams collapse under missed deadlines. And young coders? They quit their first jobs, give up on their learning, or “move on to something more interesting” at the slightest challenge.
Let’s be practical: this stops progress. Your codebase, your skills, your career—they rot when you abandon discipline. If you want freedom in programming, you need structure. Here’s how:
Own your work – Every commit, every function, every project is your responsibility. If it’s messy, fix it. Don’t blame frameworks or teammates.
Finish what you start – Even if it’s small. Ship a feature, finish that app, complete the tutorial. Half-baked code is wasted effort.
Respect mentorship – Listen to seniors, read code reviews carefully, and don’t just “do your own thing.” Growth comes from feedback.
Daily consistency beats rare bursts – 1 hour of focused coding every day beats a weekend marathon. Discipline compounds.
Automate and document – Tests, CI pipelines, READMEs—these are shields against chaos. Use them.
If your code is messy, if your projects are abandoned, if you quit at the first challenge—you’re not free, you’re enslaved to chaos. True liberty in programming comes from self-mastery, persistence, and respect for the craft.
So here’s the wake-up call: stop running from hard problems. Stop quitting when debugging gets painful. Stop letting bad habits and distractions define your career. Build habits, finish tasks, write clean code, and protect your learning path. Discipline isn’t a cage—it’s the key to freedom.
TL;DR for coders: Freedom without discipline = chaos. Stop quitting. Own your work. Finish what you start. Respect mentorship. Automate. Build habits. True liberty in programming comes from mastering your craft, not avoiding its challenges.
So, this post has one purpose which is to apologize for not being able to post any videos lately, and that is due to 2 different reasons: 1️⃣ The studio where I am right now is exposed to loud noises from my neighbors who are renovating their flat 🔨. 2️⃣ I find it very difficult to record for long hours in extreme heat 🔥, especially that my studio is facing the north and I reside on the 9th floor, so you can imagine how hot it is right now.
But [there's a But, of course 😄] I promise to bring back useful tutorials emphasizing the beauty of C, 🦀, and 🐍. Linux command line utilities in C, Automation and GUI apps in Python, and network programming in Rust.
If you want me to cook something in particular , just drop it in the comments below 💬.
You're the best audience ever 🙏, thank you so much for your support; I don't care about the Views count anymore ’cause it all depends on YT algorithms which is unfair in most of the cases, the most important part for me is to have this great window on the world to share with you interesting applications and tools 💡.
Stay chilled everyone ❄️, programming is fun 💻, and I can't believe I'm doing that with all of you, guys. Thank you for reading this post, and I will see you soon.
🎉 Happy Birthday, Professor David Malan! 🎉 @cs50 Wishing a very happy birthday to the legend behind CS50 — Professor David Malan! Your passion, energy, and unique way of teaching have inspired millions (including me) to love computer science. Thank you for making learning such a joy. Hope your day is as awesome as your lectures! 🧠🎂💻 #CS50#HappyBirthday#DavidMalan#Inspiration
Hello my friends 👋 Did you know COBOL handles 70% of global business transactions? Created in 1959, it's still powering banks, airlines, and even ATMs today! So I guess that your last withdrawal probably ran on a language older than your parents !!
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What would you like to learn next ?
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✨ Happy New Year 2026, my good friends! 🎉
Another year comes to an end, and a brand-new one is just beginning 🚀
Thank you all for your comments, subscriptions, support, friendship, and honest feedback—it truly means a lot to me 🙏💙
I wish you an amazing new year filled with prosperity, knowledge, good health, and plenty of fun with programming 💻✨
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This is my last blog post on DEV.TO on how to properly configure Git on your machine with GitHub for both Linux (Debian based) and Windows - Hopefully it will be useful to someone, somewhere.
Link: dev.to/bekbrace/git-and-github-setup-for-linux-and…
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Just wanted to say that I appreciate you guys 😊🙏
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Anyone who’s seriously coded knows a hard truth about our modern programming culture: discipline is collapsing. Once, coders, interns, and engineers understood that mastery meant focus, persistence, and responsibility. A developer, even after hours of debugging, wrote clean code and tested it thoroughly; a junior respected the senior’s guidance; and a burnout coder, if he made mistakes, learned quietly and fixed them—not flaunt buggy pull requests as if chaos were cool. Discipline wasn’t optional—it was freedom. Freedom to create without fear, to ship software that mattered.
Today, too many programmers mistake shortcuts, procrastination, and abandoned projects for “freedom.” Half-finished apps, messy commits, and ignored code reviews are flaunted proudly on GitHub. Learning paths are abandoned after a single frustration. Senior devs tolerate sloppy code, and teams collapse under missed deadlines. And young coders? They quit their first jobs, give up on their learning, or “move on to something more interesting” at the slightest challenge.
Let’s be practical: this stops progress. Your codebase, your skills, your career—they rot when you abandon discipline. If you want freedom in programming, you need structure. Here’s how:
Own your work – Every commit, every function, every project is your responsibility. If it’s messy, fix it. Don’t blame frameworks or teammates.
Finish what you start – Even if it’s small. Ship a feature, finish that app, complete the tutorial. Half-baked code is wasted effort.
Respect mentorship – Listen to seniors, read code reviews carefully, and don’t just “do your own thing.” Growth comes from feedback.
Daily consistency beats rare bursts – 1 hour of focused coding every day beats a weekend marathon. Discipline compounds.
Automate and document – Tests, CI pipelines, READMEs—these are shields against chaos. Use them.
If your code is messy, if your projects are abandoned, if you quit at the first challenge—you’re not free, you’re enslaved to chaos. True liberty in programming comes from self-mastery, persistence, and respect for the craft.
So here’s the wake-up call: stop running from hard problems. Stop quitting when debugging gets painful. Stop letting bad habits and distractions define your career. Build habits, finish tasks, write clean code, and protect your learning path. Discipline isn’t a cage—it’s the key to freedom.
TL;DR for coders: Freedom without discipline = chaos. Stop quitting. Own your work. Finish what you start. Respect mentorship. Automate. Build habits. True liberty in programming comes from mastering your craft, not avoiding its challenges.
God Bless You All.
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Hello my friends 👋, I hope you're all doing well.
So, this post has one purpose which is to apologize for not being able to post any videos lately, and that is due to 2 different reasons:
1️⃣ The studio where I am right now is exposed to loud noises from my neighbors who are renovating their flat 🔨.
2️⃣ I find it very difficult to record for long hours in extreme heat 🔥, especially that my studio is facing the north and I reside on the 9th floor, so you can imagine how hot it is right now.
But [there's a But, of course 😄] I promise to bring back useful tutorials emphasizing the beauty of C, 🦀, and 🐍.
Linux command line utilities in C, Automation and GUI apps in Python, and network programming in Rust.
If you want me to cook something in particular , just drop it in the comments below 💬.
You're the best audience ever 🙏, thank you so much for your support; I don't care about the Views count anymore ’cause it all depends on YT algorithms which is unfair in most of the cases, the most important part for me is to have this great window on the world to share with you interesting applications and tools 💡.
Stay chilled everyone ❄️, programming is fun 💻, and I can't believe I'm doing that with all of you, guys.
Thank you for reading this post, and I will see you soon.
Cheers,
Bek Brace ✌️
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🎉 Happy Birthday, Professor David Malan! 🎉
@cs50
Wishing a very happy birthday to the legend behind CS50 — Professor David Malan!
Your passion, energy, and unique way of teaching have inspired millions (including me) to love computer science.
Thank you for making learning such a joy. Hope your day is as awesome as your lectures! 🧠🎂💻
#CS50 #HappyBirthday #DavidMalan #Inspiration
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BekBrace
Hello my friends 👋
Did you know COBOL handles 70% of global business transactions?
Created in 1959, it's still powering banks, airlines, and even ATMs today!
So I guess that your last withdrawal probably ran on a language older than your parents !!
#COBOL #TechHistory #ProgrammingLegends #MainframeVibes #BekBrace
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Lua programming Crash Course Next 🕹️🎮🕹️
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