A few months ago, I started working as a frontend dev remotely full time for the first time. I guess I’m not the only one due to COVID-19. I was reading a lot about how communication is hard in remote teams, so I was thinking about what I can do to improve how I communicate […]
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Pomodoro for developers – no more “where did the afternoon go?”
Has it ever happened to you that you got so much into the work that hours were passing by as if they were just minutes? I’ve been there countless times while developing software. I’ve heard about it from other developers. It was called by various names – being in the zone, the state of flow, etc. […]
Speeding up a database intensive Django command
In Python web framework Django there is an option to create custom commands to run some scripts for your website from console. In this post I’ll look at a particularly slow command from our adaptive learning system library proso-apps and what I did to make it faster.
Boosting grunt performance
I guess you’ve heard about Grunt, the JavaScript task runner. It’s a great automation tool, but when you start using it and keep adding more stuff to it, at some point you’ll probably get to a point where the execution takes more time then you are willing to wait. I’ve recently hit that point with a […]
Hurray! One more blog on the internet
Here I am, going into the business of blog posting as advised by John Sonmez in his Blogging Course. What will it be about? I have no idea, so far. Or I have many different ideas but none of them seems very good and capable of providing enough topics for many blog posts. So, we’ll see. […]