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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 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.
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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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 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.
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 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.
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As I build more back-office web interfaces I notice that users feel most comfortable in an Excel-like interface. That’s why it’s now so common to find data being edited and exchanged Google Sheets. This got me wondering – how do I access, manipulate and write to Sheets from Python. I like the answer that I […]
Anže Tomič is most known for his podcasts Apparatus pogovori and Glave. He makes technology and media approachable to people that wouldn’t otherwise care.
I wanted to talk to Anže to see if he has any advice for me on how to approach interviews and all the media and brand myths around that. I expected basic tips on how to get started but instead got deep insights on business models and economics of the creator-led industry.
Inspired by the different things that Alenka is cooking with Spruce Sprouts I decided to try to see if it would work in bread. Initial Internet search didn’t show any prior art in this area. There are some people that bake pastries. Most of the uses for spruce sprouts I found was to mix it […]