personal
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🔀 The division between group and personal workflow
When thinking about developer workflows, tools, and resources, dividing them into two categories proves useful: personal and group. A group resource is something that multiple people use (or should use): SDKs, libraries, linters, formatters…
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🎉 200 posts
This marks the 201st post I’ve sent – 2/3’s of the way through the 300 bad posts. How is it going? I still enjoy the process and the thinking it brings. However, it is getting a little bit more difficult recently to keep the discipline, esp…
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📝 Personal vs. collaborative documentation
Yesterday, we discussed the importance of a personal note-taking tool. We can also extend this concept to a team or company using Wikis, Markdown in Git, shared Google Docs, etc. Collaborative documentation is very valuable – IF you can get…
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🔧 What is your most important tool?
Your editor? Your CAD tool? Your 2GHz oscilloscope? Your phone? Your computer? In the information age, we are flooded with information and opportunities. Many of the problems we solve are ones we’ve never seen before, or at least not very o…
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🎧 Use a headset optimized for calls
One thing most of us do routinely is voice calls or video conferencing. For this to work, each party needs to have a microphone and a speaker. The simplest setup is to use the microphone and speaker built into your phone, laptop, or car. So…
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💪 Habits -- a critical ingredient in YOUR Personal Platform
We defined your platform as the collection of technology, tools, and processes that enable you to differentiate and consistently deliver your products and services. At a personal level, habits are critical – they enable us to do the boring/…
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🏗️ Three levels of YOUR Platform
We can look at platforms at three levels. Your personal platform is the know-how that you can personally reuse from task-to-task, project-to-project, and job-to-job. But, it is not real useful outside yourself. A product platform may be wh…