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Daniel Roy Greenfeld

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New Brunswick, NJ, The United States

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Nonfiction

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Over the course of his life, Daniel has:

* Learned how to fight with swords
* Ridden horses
* Cycled thousands of miles on multiple continents
* Performed cartwheels in capoeira circles on multiple continents
* Worked as an engineer at NASA
* Married a woman he dreamed about before he ever met her

He believes this combination of skills and experiences makes him the ideal fantasy and tech author.

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I've been doing a lot of writing recently, and tracking my word count. I write in markdown. I could just render the text using a markdown library and then do a count on the generated output, but then I wouldn't have the fun of writing out a bunch of regular expressions. Yes, I know the cautionary meme by that says:

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	Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.8 by Daniel Roy Greenfeld (Goodreads Author), Audrey Roy Greenfeld 4.36 avg rating — 854 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Brambles by Daniel Roy Greenfeld (Goodreads Author), Daniel Roy Greenfeld (Goodreads Author), Audrey Roy Greenfeld (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Django Crash Course by Daniel Roy Greenfeld (Goodreads Author), Audrey Roy Greenfeld 3.48 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkest Autumn (Ambria 1) 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Wedge of Django: Covers Python 3.8 and Django 3.x by Daniel Roy Greenfeld (Goodreads Author), Audrey Feldroy 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coldest Spring (Ambria #3) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River Runs Uphill (Ambria #2) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Code is read more than it is written.”
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“An individual block of code takes moments to write, minutes or hours to debug, and can last forever without being touched again. It’s when you or someone else visits code written yesterday or ten years ago that having code written in a clear, consistent style becomes extremely useful. Understandable code frees mental bandwidth from having to puzzle out inconsistencies, making it easier to maintain and enhance projects of all sizes.”
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