DevJourney Reuven Lerner made one of the first 100 websites... ever... and other things I learned recording his DevJourney Reuven Lerner is a consultant, an author and a teacher. After interviewing him for the DevJourney podcast, here are the key takeways I personally took out of the discussion.
Retrospective Do you like making New-Year's resolutions? Yeah... me neither. I like retrospectives though… I always find it boring to speak about New-Year resolutions on New-Year’s Eve. Better wait one week, let the euphoria settle down and THEN… avoid it some more, because no-one likes overreaching
DevJourney Pariss Athena learns jumping-in with both feet first... and other things I learned recording her DevJourney Pariss - Athena - Chandler did a lot in her relatively short career in software development. After interviewing her for the DevJourney podcast, here are the key takeways I personally took out of the discussion.
Down the DNS & SSL rabbit hole I went Boy, what a rabbit hole I just went down. Brace yourself for a story. I pulled one simple thread and woke up two weeks later with a brain full of learning and experience.
Podcast The story of how I ended up in Germany, and things I learned in the process A few weeks ago, I was interviewed on the Expats Life Germany podcast. Shaun, the host, moved from South Africa to Germany about a decade ago. He recently started this podcast to highlight
BoardGame Karmaka, a great board game that isn't so complicated after all This weekend, my son found the game "Karmaka" hidden somewhere at home. I bought this game in 2016 via Kickstarter. Back then, I spent 15 minutes trying to understand the rule-book and failed
iOS How to really get rid of those pesky iOS live-photos? Yesterday I got a nice email from Apple saying that I reached 48.9 GB of storage on my 50 GB iCloud Account and it is time to upgrade. To which I said.
Tech Setting up the new Windows Terminal I finally reactivated the Windows Insider fast ring on my Surface, to try out the new Windows Terminal. I must admit, I've rarely been that excited by a trailer for such a deeply
Talk Level-up your corporate presentations - Part 2 In the first article of this series, we discussed the preparatory steps to steer your new corporate presentation on the right path. Here's a summary of the tips provided: What are the 1-3
Talks Level-up your corporate presentations - Part 1 Complete the following sentence: "Corporate reports/presentations are _____ "What do you say? Boring? The worst? Debilitating? Annoying? Not engaging? That's how I often feel... Search the internet for tips on how to create
"My word is truth", a short story The ad of course never mentioned anything about losing every bits of your social life. It didn’t warn you that all your friends would eventually turn their back on you. And it
Developer's Journey A glimpse at my podcast recording workflow, 2019 edition About a year ago, I described in length what my podcasting workflow for #DevJourney looked like. It's time for an update. Let me warn you, I will only describe the delta here, so
Book You should be afraid of the Blackout When was the last time you experienced a real blackout? Years? I can't remember mine. I think there was a dark evening with candles somewhere in my childhood... but it lasted a few
Scrum The Daily scrum isn’t about YOU! Picture a team standing together in front of a wall full of lines and post-its. They’re having what they call a "Daily Scrum". It’s a daily, 15-minutes meeting that happen among
Running How to edit Suunto Countmoves activities? After a pretty deceiving experience with my last Garmin watch, I recently bought a Suunto Spartan Trainer Wrist HR GPS Watch. I must say I've been thrilled with the design, the finish and
Running Share your fitness activities across all services with RunGap Do you track your fitness activities? Which device you use? Which platform do you share on? It's a real jungle out there. I recently stumbled upon RunGap, the App I missed all those years!
Adapt Let's get fuzzy (again) This is going to sound like showing off... and it may be a little bit. It is one of "those posts". A month ago, I bought a new watch. I have had a
Book Books Review 03.2017-11.2018 (part 3/3) Here's part three of the review of all the books or audio-books that went through my hands and ears between march 2017 and November 2018. The two previous parts are to be found
But what can you eat on keto? My Ketogenic lifestyle has invariably become a conversation topic everywhere I go. After politely passing on appetizers and carefully leaving most of the carbs on my plate, I'm bound to get questions. And
Minimalism Happy smartphone experiment part II - let your iPhone work for you, not against you After my happy smartphone experiment post about reorganizing my phone to limit disturbance, I stumbled upon this article called: How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You. It sums
Mentoring Step into mentoring with my (first) Email Course Have you ever felt hyper-energized by working together with someone?Have you ever had the feeling you could avoid making many mistakes if you only had someone to talk to?Have you ever
Book Books Review 03.2017-11.2018 (part 2/3) Here's part two of the review of all the books or audiobooks that went through my hands and ears between march 2017 and november 2018. The beginning of the list is to be
Lifestyle Happy Smartphone Experiment Do you own a smartphone? How often does it vibrates in your pocket? More like once per hour? Ten times? One hundred times?I used the opportunity of a weekend away with my
Book Books Review 03.2017-11.2018 (part 1/3) A few days ago, I realized I had missed a few deadlines of (audio)books reviews... so here's all that went through my hands and ears between march 2017 and November 2018. While
Lifestyle The year I pressed the reset button on my body! "Come for the weight loss but stay for the energy" would be my summary of the Ketogenic Lifestyle... but let me roll back a little and give you some context because this is