Sometimes plunging in headfirst and barehanded is just the most efficient way to nab the nuisance lizard, says Mike Kimmel, who goes by Python Cowboy on social media.

But I’ve noticed that when I open everything all at once, I slip into a reactive mode before I’ve even decided what I actually need to work on. That was the problem I wanted to solve, so I wrote a ...

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