Hey Reader,
June already. Where the heck did the first half of 2025 go? ๐
Ever feel like you're running a marathon without shoes? That's been my 2025 so far.
I hit 40 ready to conquer the world. Instead, I spent most mornings wondering if I could even get out of bed. Major sciatica, back pain, massive fatigue... it all took over.
I was almost ready to lay down and just tap out.
But I pushed through:
- I trained and worked with my AI coach to help me through rough times and refined my vision.
- My physical therapist reminded me that I'm very young and have a lot of life left, and to not consider pain hopeless.
- I upped my supplements, and was able to finally start working out again to combat fatigue.
When things get tough, sometimes you just need to fight back. And now with a renewed vision, zero back pain, and way more energy, it feels like I've never been in a better position than I am right now.
This doesn't really have much to do with Magento (though I've had similar battles with it in the past ๐
), but I think sometimes we just all need some motivating words to help us push through. Hope this helps if you're fighting your own battles right now.
Let's get back to it โ I'm still VERY knee deep in the building of my course platform. Like most devs, I thought things were almost done and in the home stretch, but then I remembered:
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I also increased the targeted study practice lessons and approach to ensure things are "atomic" (meaning they can stand alone). This is a slightly revised version of my teaching style, aimed at simplifying things even more.
Following this approach took my initial 21 lessons to 70+. This will lead to much easier lessons to follow for you, but did push things back a bit as it requires a bit more production time.
Because of this, I have decided to push back to the official launch of the course to the week of July 13. That said, I've just opened up a private beta testing group over on Campus and will start providing access next week. University students - reply if you want in (have room for about 10 more).
Just like my back battles, working on this new course platform has been teaching me even more about persistence. It's been one of the most interesting coding projects that I've ever been involved in, mainly because I architected the whole thing, but personally coded less than 10% of it.
Claude Code wrote just about the entire app. I played the solution architect and the quality assurance role, overseeing the code. So "vibe coding" is very much real โ and I'd love to talk about all of this after the cert-prep course has been officially launched.
Over the next few issues of M Bytes, I'll be talking a lot more about how to pass the Adobe Commerce certs. But in the meantime, see below for how I patch the core code in Magento... without waiting 6+ months for the official patch.
Keep coding,
