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Taking courses on Node.js again

Sidenote on my health situation Note: you can skip to the next section if you are not interested in this painful topic. It is on Friday, at 3 AM. I must be honest; my main focus right now is handling the pain I have in my big right toe because I had surgery on it […]

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As a Senior programmer, I am taking the Junior path again.

In the past couple of weeks I realized that I lost the habit of learning and growing as a programmer. The world moves quickly and working with new technologies can make someone less competitive. That is why I decided to bring back my Junior mindset, and keep learning as a habbit again.

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2023.10.26  – Updates

Yesterday was an interesting day. My wife and I decided to take action and start working on online sales. We will look at Etsy first as an online web shop opportunity. As a consequence, I bought two iPad Pros with 2 TB SSD. Okay, I just ordered it, not yet paid for it. I hope […]

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How did the office working styles change for Programmers? Is remote work with traveling the new norm?

I have worked as a programmer since 2012, and I experienced many office working styles in the past decade. Office work, remote, mixed, and traveling. Working and studying on-site When I started working in 2012, I was still at university, and I had to manage to go to classes and, after classes, go to the […]

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Software Development Workflows

Gitflow Workflow vs. Trunk-based development: A true story in a startup

This is my story about how I stumbled upon Trunk-based development through the Atlassian pages. Seated in a real situation where I had to give advice to my team on how to handle branching, development, testing, and releasing. You will read about what thought process went through while evaluating the Atlassian page about Trunk-based development, […]

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Since the last update, I have done more thinking

Since the last update, when I wrote about starting to take blogging more seriously and using WordPress for that, I did more thinking than actual learning or writing. ChatGPT and Open AI There were a few topics on my mind. One of them was how Open AI / ChatGPT will affect the programmer’s future and […]

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Hard Skills Software Development

The correct way to write conditional expressions

(isItTrue == false) !== (false == isItTrue) I have been programming for more than a decade, but it never occurred to me that there would be a good and a wrong way of writing a conditional expression. For example, if you write an if statement, would you think that it matters how you order a […]

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My struggle with quantity over quality, reflected in creating content for the web and using PHP for WordPress

I have had this website for a few years now, but I have only a few articles up. As a programmer/developer/software engineer / etc., I always felt that I would need a website for myself. I built many applications and websites for other companies, but I never took the time and effort to build something […]

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Hard Skills Software Development

My WordPress Development Environment on M1 Mac / Apple Silicon (using docker)

How to set up a WordPress development environment on Apple Silicon, using Docker, that is easy to set up and maintain? Read more …

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Creative

Programmers are writers, dreamers with creating power

Dear reader. You might know me as a software developer, a programmer. You might know me as someone sitting in front of a computer and making alien things for you. But, inside, all programmers, we are writers. We might not write fiction the same way that book authors write them, but we might write fiction […]