Making the Best of a Less-Than-Ideal Remote Work Environment
Tips for adapting to a sudden, non-ideal remote work setup at home, focusing on practical solutions for common challenges.
Tips for adapting to a sudden, non-ideal remote work setup at home, focusing on practical solutions for common challenges.
15 March 2020 10 Tips for Working From Home remote This article also exists in: French Because of COVID, a lot of people are going to experiment with
A reflection on how abundance of resources, like online learning platforms, can paradoxically lead to devaluation and inaction in the IT field.
A developer shares their personal routine of waking at 5 AM to study algorithms, data structures, Python, and machine learning to advance their tech career.
A developer shares the highest-ROI tip for productivity: improving collaboration with product and design teams to boost velocity.
Introduces Pock, a utility that moves the Mac Dock to the Touch Bar, making it more useful for app switching and notification checks.
A developer shares their favorite macOS productivity tools and CLI utilities, including Alfred and Magnet, to enhance workflow and automation.
A developer shares personal health habits to illustrate how making good choices easy can be applied to building performant, accessible, and secure software.
A personal year-in-review blog post reflecting on the blog's growth, content goals, and technical decisions like ads, analytics, and a potential platform migration.
A comic strip depicting a daily standup meeting, highlighting common time-wasting behaviors in agile development.
A developer shares technical and habit-based techniques to reduce distractions from social media, email, and apps like StackOverflow for better productivity.
An article challenging the '10x engineer' myth and proposing the concept of a '+10% engineer' who boosts team productivity through collaboration and support.
A guide to creating command aliases in Windows Terminal to save time and keystrokes for developers using Docker, Git, and Kubernetes.
A guide for developers on effectively working from home, covering occasional and regular remote work arrangements, discipline, and communication strategies.
A talk and article showcasing surprising and advanced features of the IPython interactive Python shell.
A developer's monthly progress report on side projects, including user growth for What Got Done and renewed interest in Zestful.
How Google's 'Snippets' tool for asynchronous status updates improved meeting efficiency and team communication.
A blog post about overcoming perfectionism in writing and the benefits of publishing work before it feels 'perfect'.
A developer reflects on launching a task journaling app, conducting user interviews, and earning passive income from side projects.
A personal story about an Apple Watch notification distracting a midwife leads to a discussion on the dangers of digital distractions for software developers.