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Advice for Developers: How to Keep Moving When You’re Stuck

Spend time solidifying your understanding of the domain of the problem and you'll be more likely to solve the problem without guessing.

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The transition from work mode to not work mode is vital to maintaining a healthy work-life balance, especially when working remotely.

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How can we improve our work output and maximize our creativity and energy? This question is particularly important for knowledge workers.

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Recently, I’ve had several opportunities to mentor high school to college-aged aspiring programmers. Here are the skills that really matter.

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Have you ever wanted to track your work hours automatically? IFTTT might be exactly what you're looking for.

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Imagine you're a developer on a small team with three different tasks to handle. How do you decide which task to address first?

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In our daily grind, developers get bogged down by repetitive non-coding tasks. Fear not: keyboard shortcuts for VS Code are here to rescue us.

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Here are a few tricks I’ve found that help me stay passionate and avoid burnout and fatigue when I'm working on a long software project.

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About half a year ago, I decided to try out a split keyboard. Here are a few things I really like about the Moonlander.

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With this fix, we should see the workspace indicators in the `polybar` panel, and when we switch workspaces, we should see it update.

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I run a multi-monitor setup, but the script I borrowed from David Wilson of System Crafters only launches polybar on the main screen.

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In this first installment in a three-part series, here are 10 questions to ask in a job interview when your priority is making more money.