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As everyone in this generation, I have struggled with phone addiction and wasting time in apps for much of my teenage/adult life. I have setup my phone to strictly allow for only that which is productive and allow focused work. We can so...
Last Saturday, my wife joined me on my weekly pilgrimage to NUE. The weather couldn't be better: +21ºC, clear skies, no wind. In other words, a rather unusual weather for mid-April in Germany. I was lucky to capture a 48-year-old Learjet...
One of my favourite sites on thie IndieWeb RainbowSpec focuses entirely on learning everything you could possibly want about the optics of rainbows. From the visible spectrum to double rainbows, and glories. Worth a good read!
Here are a few of my snaps from our first two days in NZ. We are really loving it here. I would love to go hiking, the climate is perfect and the mountainous country beautiful. Not this trip though, this one's for the boys. H apparently...
Something that I find a little annoying is having to manually post things to different social media. I like to post JUST to my site here and then syndicate to socials, mostly just mastodon, but I would like to figure it out for other...
I’ll start with a confession: I’m still quite new to the world of performance analysis and optimization.Monitoring how Rails apps behave in the real world, especially when it comes to database queries and SQL performance is something...
You may have noticed that the website is a little different. In the last iteration of this blog, I had decided to go with old faithful, WordPress, as the CMS backend. I hated every single moment of it. I can’t stand the editor UI, the...
Psychologia szefaSzef to zawódAuthors: Wojciech Haman, Jerzy Gut I’ve read many books about leadership, but none quite like this one. The first two chapters followed a familiar pattern—a brief introduction to a manager’s responsibilities...
Title: Javier's computer Website: javier.computer RSS Feed: javier.computer/feed.xml This computer contains an amulet, a sphinx, 287 blog posts, a collection of silly songs, 416 photos, one pun, 58 drawings, a modest blogroll, a hidden...
Leaders deliberately plan to develop products or deliver projects. However, they rarely pay similar attention to building trust. They see trust as “natural” or “part of being a decent human being.” What they don’t know is that if they...
Way back when, I worked in Scottsdale and had to drive forty minutes through the desert to and from work every day. And every day, I would save the apple...
Disfruté mucho de la lectura de este libro también, claro. Si disfruté de la segunda, disfruté de la primera. Y os adelanto que estoy disfrutando de la tercera. Por no repetirme, aquí está el post que escribí cuando me terminé este...
At work, I have to develop a service that has an API server, a web server that serves UI, and a Slack bot. This uses a database. I can either run it locally via podman, or connect to one which already runs in a development cluster. The...
Applying the right level of detail for the task at hand.
Heavily investing in plugins can be a bad thing for portability