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The Copy Workshop is a 2.5-month online async workshop. The main objective (as I perceived it) is to teach you to write better text for a specific audience. That could be an email newsletter, blog post, email to your boss, or text message to your spouse. I expected it would be about specific writing and […]
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In Meaningful work interviews I talk to people about their area of work and expertise to better understand what they do and why it matters to them. Jernej Virag (LinkedIn) is a Technical Lead / Manager at Google. We discussed how mid-level developers can become Senior developers and how to ensure that you can deliver […]
Python has two built-in functions that can help with debugging. Most known one is print() and the other is pprint() (pretty print). There’s an external library icecream that you can also use and it will have an even better output. I presented this library at Ljubljana’s Python Meetup in September 2021.
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You should write for yourself first. That’s the answer that I keep coming back after talking to many different people about what they expect from their blogging. It seems that we mostly see articles that feel larger than life. The ones that implement a whole react app in a 5-series Medium post. We see that […]
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I’ve asked a Slovenian Developer Facebook community about their experience with Signing Bonuses in Europe and Slovenia. What’s the reason for signing bonuses? A US-specific reason is that signing bonuses helps with missed opportunities in job seekers’ current position. It’s compensation for unvested options or a general yearly bonus. For some individuals, they provide additional […]
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I’m noticing a new trend in the technology industry – people are starting to talk more about people or soft skills. I also really like the reframing to call them professional skills. Akimbo Workshop called them Real Skills. The format of the event is a 2-hour Zoom meeting with over 100 participants. The real action happens […]
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This is a detailed process description how you can build your own optimal route between different points on a map. It’s a description of how to route Ljubljana’s Space Invaders but it’s useful for all sorts of routing problems. Step 1: Clean your data I got locations in a Word files that used a number […]
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When I talk with new people in the development community, I often hear that they’re afraid of asking questions in public forums. They would explain their issue to me in person. When I ask them why don’t they ask in a specialized Slack, Facebook, or Stackoverflow community, they tell me that they don’t think they’re […]
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Building a Second Brain is a productivity course produced by Forte Labs. It’s focused on improving your personal knowledge management system and habits around it. It’s delivered as a 5-week cohort-based online course. I was part of Cohort 12 in May 2021. When I was telling my friends about it there two things that stood […]
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How we learn in this digital age is broken, amazing, and weird at the same time. I see two major paradigms that are present in learning models: islands and streams. Islands of learning are a traditional classroom approach. There’s a syllabus of reading, tasks to do, and lectures to listen to. It’s a very safe […]