Maja Rihar on basics of office ergonomics for developers
Maja Rihar is an ergonomics consultant specializing in a workplace environment. In our conversation, I tried to learn current best practices in how to set up my work environment.
Sara Vošinek Gašpar explains why developers should switch jobs every 3 years
Sara Vošinek Gašpar is an IT recruiter. She explained to me why job ads in the IT industry are so strange, the specifics of the Slovenian IT market, and how developers can further level up. After talking with her I started to see the benefits of building a relationship with a recruiter and not just randomly applying to job ads.
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Reflection on & review of Building a Second Brain Course
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 […]
Jana Bergant teaches me how to get started with creating paid online courses
Jana Bergant is a developer, creator, and author of online courses with over 25000 students. She kindly answered my questions on how to approach creating commercial online courses. We’ve also discussed personal growth for developers and how to find your space in the world.
Larsen Cundrič shares how to level up during studies
Larsen Cundrič is in his final year of undergraduate Computer Science studies. We also talked about his previous entrepreneurial experience. At the time of this conversation, he was just finishing his last week of exams during his Erasmus exchange in Denmark.
First spike for Roam to WP plugin
Status update on getting the first “spike/prototype” of code working. Scaffolding initial plugin code I’ve looked into a number of scaffolding solutions: @wordpress/create-block Roots acorn wp scaffold plugin A number of WordPress Plugin Boilerplate plugins I’ve initially tried to use WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Powered but it generated so much boilerplate code that it was just […]
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Islands vs. Streams as a learning model
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 […]
Matej Martinc explains Natural Language Processing
Matej Martinc is a Ph.D. researcher at “Jožef Stefan” Institute in the Department of Knowledge Technologies where he invents new approaches on how to work and analyze written text. He explained to me the basics of Natural Language Processing (NLP), why neural networks are amazing, and how one gets started with all of this. In the second half, he shared how he ended up in Computer Science with a Philosophy degree and why working for companies like Google is not something that interests him.
Initial thinking on Roam to WordPress Plugin
What I’m trying to do with this plugin is to create a digital garden that I can connect from Roam Research to WordPress. Most of the existing solutions are using static web site generators. I’d like to avoid that because I want to have only one CMS on my site and to also maintain only […]
Aleš Vaupotič on conversations in IT
Aleš Vaupotič has a wide-ranging 35+ years career in building software and hardware solutions. He’s one of the most experienced e-commerce experts in the region. Our conversation ranged from how to grow as a developer, what it’s like to be part of the sales process, and where he currently sees technological opportunities.