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Why you’re struggling to finish a development project

Jun 3, 2021 James

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…

Productivity

[Expired] 60% off a Listenable Subscription

May 6, 2021 James

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,…

GTD Productivity

Notes from Eat that Frog Webinar

May 2, 2021 James

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…

Productivity

Setting up a productive development day

Apr 27, 2021 James

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.…

Development Productivity

Using IntelliJ Sequence Diagram Plugin productively

Mar 4, 2021 James

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…

Development

Keeping metadata out of your IntelliJ projects

Jan 14, 2021 James

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…

Productivity

Record meetings to supersize your productivity

Dec 6, 2020 James

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…

GTD Productivity

Productivity Course on Listenable

Oct 16, 2020 James

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…

AWS Productivity

Debugging Localstack running in Docker

Sep 15, 2020 James

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,…

Career Productivity

Don’t let Slack kill your productivity

Aug 13, 2020 James

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…

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