Why you’re struggling to finish a development project
I recently answered a question that interested me on Quora, “What is the number one reason most developers never finish a personal project?” If you’re struggling to finish a development…
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TLDR; you can get 60% off a Listenable Subscription until May 10th, when you use this link and a coupon code of ‘TEACHER60’. Longer version So during lockdown last year,…
Notes from Eat that Frog Webinar
Overview I signed up to a webinar by TodoIst as the subject of ‘Eating the Frog’ interested me. As a GTD zealot, I was keen on learning more about other…
Setting up a productive development day
Setting up your day to be productive is the sort of thing that should be straightforward, but isn’t always. I think there are 3 key ingredients to be aware of.…
Using IntelliJ Sequence Diagram Plugin productively
A useful combo for using the IntelliJ Sequence Diagram plugin to generate sequence diagrams and then handing off to an online editor. Use the right tools at the right time…
Keeping metadata out of your IntelliJ projects
This annoyed me enough that I wanted to write an article about it. Mostly it’s because I wanted to help others, and also to have a reminder for myself on…
Record meetings to supersize your productivity
Like many of us, I’ve been working from home extensively these last few months. We’ve been using Microsoft Teams to facilitate our daily stand up meetings until we’re safe to…
Productivity Course on Listenable
The last few weeks I haven’t been as as active as I’d like on this blog due to an interesting project I’ve been undertaking on developer productivity systems. I’ve published…
Debugging Localstack running in Docker
Recently I was using AWS LocalStack (which uses Python and Docker) to run various tests against DynamoDB. I was running into behaviour that seemed different from the ‘true’ AWS services,…
Don’t let Slack kill your productivity
Most recently I have found my role almost being one of a mini-project manager. I’m helping out with an uplift of some assets into Docker containers at work, pretty standard…