How to update Google Calendar with pre-push git hook

With my online course building journey, I had to keep track of the slides it has. My coach has set me goal and it looked like a really hard one to reach, but it seemed doable. I wanted it to be a challenge. By some numbers I got from the previous month, I came up to the conclusio…

Building on your previous work

There was quite a long pause between my previous article and this one. I had a lot of stirr in my personal life, a lot of events happening concurrently. I could not prepare for a lot of them, because I did not see them coming. Yet, I am grateful for every single push life is givi…

Three reasons why you should spend time in nature as a programmer

Do you spend considerable time staring to the screen? You probably do. You are doing so right now reading this. If you do some (or mostly) programming during the time behind a monitor, you might be missing out on some great sights out there. And not only that. Realxing in a natur…

How enjoying the moment made me a positive person

Have you ever got into a situation where you did not want to end up because some part of your plan failed up miserably? Chances are that you did, and not once. In fact, probably every time you have prepared a detailed plan for a day, it ended up not fulfilling completely. The hig…

How your commit history tells you when your post was published

Have you ever wondered about the sheer amount of problems you encounter daily? Some of them disappear over time. Some of them may be ignored. Some of them might be delegated to someone else, if you can afford it. If none of these options are available, your time and your attentio…

You support open-source without knowing it

In a recent article I have explained how you can reduce the time needed to download pictures for your content by eleminitaing page load times from three to just one. In that article I have mentioned that I am currently creating presentations in the LibreOffice Impress, namely bec…

Becoming a faster presentation creator

What is the cost of doing a task that always take roughly same amount of time over and over? Well, on the one hand, if it is your job, and you do it right, you might even end up being promoted. But even then, it might be reasonable to think about speeding up the task. I know, som…