Tag: personal

A tale about organisational openness

The meeting with a client this morning was postponed for about an hour. My job there was to find a way how to adjust a small single-purpose machine that was used to continuously check the quality of a manufacturing process. Every four hours a batch of five devices under test were…

Syncthing is helping me sell used stuff

Since I have made the Syncthing working across my devices, synchronizing KeePassXC passwords and photos, my life turned out better in more ways than I have previously imagined. One way that that this setup resulted in a positive change in my life is minimalism. Minimalism is inte…

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…

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…