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Context switching and code reviews

You are deep in a piece of work and making great progress when a phone call or message breaks you train of thought and derails you. Context switching can have a huge impact on productivity.


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Improved weather forecasts

At the moment we are deep in the clutches of Storm Darragh as it batters the UK. We have currently lost one fence panel and there may be more casualties. I looks like I will get to experience the “joy” soon of watching my son play football in high winds and torrential rain.


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Crafting the perfect intro

In an interview, Clay Herbert walks Nathan Barry through creating the best answer to the question “So what do you do?”. We have all been asked that at some point when meeting someone new.


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Making money from free content

Sam Harris gives away his content for free but still makes money.


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Rebecca purple

The community for the CSS-Next repository recently had a vote to decide on a new official logo. The colour chosen for the new logo was rebeccapurple. This colour was introduced to the CSS specification in 2014.


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Stay in the game

In a recent interview Mo Salah shared some advice he received from the ex-Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger that has stuck with him.


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Finding better domain names

Finding a good available domain name for a project, product or company is hard but there is one web tool that I have found is more successful than others.


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Thinking differently can be worth a lot

We use the technology Apache Kafka as a key element in the implementation of the distributed ledger we have developed.


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Small things can make a difference

A single, creative decision transformed our interactions with some junior engineers, boosting their morale and integrating them seamlessly into our team.


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Rethinking selling

Making a sale of a Software as a Service (SaaS) product to a large enterprise customer can be slow and difficult. There are a lot of potential roadblocks that need to be overcome.


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