What to Blog About When You Don’t Know What to Blog About
A list of blog post ideas and prompts for developers and tech writers, especially during challenges like National Blog Posting Month.
A list of blog post ideas and prompts for developers and tech writers, especially during challenges like National Blog Posting Month.
A guide to installing and using the GitHub CLI to boost productivity for project maintainers and contributors, covering login and key commands.
Explains how the software development practice of 'grooming' can be applied to boost productivity in any project by preparing work ahead of time.
A simple macOS menu bar app for quick calendar access, supporting Calendar and Google Calendar integration.
Explains how remote work shifts communication to more thoughtful, asynchronous methods like writing and video to improve clarity and team throughput.
A poetic reflection on the immersive, focused state of deep coding work and the struggle to maintain that flow.
Introduces 'Startup Friday', a practice of dedicating Friday time to creative tech projects, experiments, and prototypes.
A review and guide for Day Progress, a macOS menu bar app that visually tracks your day's progress with customizable time ranges and display options.
Mitchell Hashimoto shares his method for staying motivated and completing large technical projects by breaking them into tangible, demo-able chunks.
A guide to using a simple four-column Kanban board to organize work, reduce stress, and improve visibility for yourself and your team.
A tech professional shares lessons on escaping hustle culture, emphasizing rest, essentialism, and work-life balance for sustainable success.
A developer shares their methodology of 'Notification-driven Development' to efficiently manage GitHub notifications and maintain multiple projects.
Analyzes the corporate pushback against remote work, questioning the stated reasons and exploring underlying power dynamics and economic factors.
A macOS app that adds intuitive cut (Command+X) and paste (Command+V) functionality for moving files in Finder, replacing the default copy and move shortcuts.
A developer explains 'Parametric Progress', a method for improving codebases by changing only one aspect at a time to better understand system effects.
Advocates for 'async first' communication in tech teams, using meetings only as an escalation point for complex discussions.
Argues against using Postman/Insomnia for manual API testing, advocating for automated tests and CI pipelines to improve productivity and software quality.
A guide to boosting macOS productivity using keyboard shortcuts for instant app switching and window arrangement with tools like Rectangle Pro and Alfred.
A developer shares their favorite productivity apps for 2023, including Obsidian, Centered, and Raindrop, for note-taking, focus, and bookmarking.
A developer argues that AI should focus on automating tedious tasks to free up human energy for creative and meaningful work.