Productivity
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SFiST: Downtown Tech Office Shuts Down Its Free Cocktail Bar For Employees, CEO Says 'The Office Is Dead'
sfist.com Downtown Tech Office Shuts Down Its Free Cocktail Bar For Employees, CEO Says 'The Office Is Dead'An experiment in 2020s incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occurs has ended with a whimper in downtown SF. Tech company Expensify is shutting down its bar, which it opened earlier this year, after six months.
- leaddev.com What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity
The consulting giant kicked a hornet’s nest when it launched a framework to measure software developer productivity. Here’s what engineers think they got wrong.
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From Dhole Moments: Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It
soatok.blog Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It - Dhole MomentsI quit my job towards the end of last month. When I started this blog, I told myself, “Don’t talk about work.” Since my employment is in the rear view mirror, I’m going to b…
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Johnny Decimal (a system to organize projects)
johnnydecimal.com 11.01 Introduction║J•DJohnny.Decimal is a system to organise projects (or your life, or anything else)
I found this a year ago and it's IMHO a very good system to organize projects (software projects for me). I don't expect everyone to follow those rules, but it helped me a lot when I needed some organization.
- www.vox.com Your boss has no idea what productivity means
That makes it a bad reason to go back to the office.
- mdalmijn.com Companies That Obsess Over Velocity Are Clueless About Scrum
End the pointless velocity hysteria Most companies using Scrum spend a lot of time discussing velocity and devising ways to increase it. Velocity becomes a magical, almost mythical number that developers must chase in every Sprint. In companies where the velocity whip is cracked, comments like these...
- opensource.com 4 common issues with implementing Agile and how to address them
Whether it's lack of awareness, support, participation, or poor user stories, there are certain strategies that make handling these problems more manageable.
> Establishing an Agile way of thinking in an existing company is a big task with plenty of potential pitfalls. However, some problems are more prevalent than others and tend to span organizations. I've identified the four most common issues I've encountered. Whether it's lack of awareness, support, participation, or poor user stories, there are certain strategies that make handling these problems more manageable. How can you implement these approaches to help smooth the way for great Agile success?
- blog.trello.com How managers can support and encourage disengaged employees | Trello
No one wants to be disengaged at their job. Sometimes, team members just need support and guidance to get to the heart of what they truly want and need in order to re-engage. That’s where you come in.
- www.atlassian.com The real reasons you procrastinate at work - Work Life by Atlassian
According to a growing body of psychology research, procrastinating at work isn't a weakness - it's a symptom
> If procrastination is a symptom of emotional discomfort, that means it’s your brain’s way of telling you what you need in that moment. The trick is recognizing and interpreting your procrastination in the right way. Fortunately, Mss. Fosslien and Duffy’s research revealed several helpful clues.
- arstechnica.com Prominent Apple staffers write letters to management, resign over office return
"I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy..."
- www.macrumors.com Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work
Apple's director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, has resigned from his role a little over four years after he joined the company after...
- interestingengineering.com It's official. Remote work has zero negative impact on your productivity
A research team from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health has conducted a new study and found that employee and company resiliency may be enhanced through remote work. The results of the study were published by the institution on Friday.
- annehelen.substack.com LARPing your job
A few weeks ago, I went on one of my favorite podcasts — The Ezra Klein Show — to talk about burnout, workism, and our relationship to labor. In our conversation, I invoke the idea of “LARPing” your job, a phrase my partner uses to describe the way we try and show evidence that LOOK, OVER HERE, I AM...
- jamesclear.com The Goldilocks Rule: How to Stay Motivated in Life and Business
This is how to stay motivated, if when your goal takes years.
- jamesclear.com When the 80/20 Rule Fails: The Downside of Being Effective
You get one, precious life. How do you decide the best way to spend your time?
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Receive a science-based tip each day to overcome procrastination, improve productivity and transform your life.
moreproductive.me More Productive Me - daily productivity tips to transform your lifeA battle tested productivity tip every day for a month - free. There's no better time than today to get started. Apply our science-based techniques to improve your productivity and your life.
Think of it as a free 30 day bootcamp to transform your life. Each day receive an evidence-based tactic to transform your productivity, habits, goal setting and execution. No fluff, no spam, no catch - just actionable tips to help you reach your true potential.
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Neo - The only keyboard layout you should have learned - or maybe still should
Yes, it's optimized for German. But I'm sure any other language will be able to find a different use for the Umlaut-keys. But: Even if you cut out those keys it's still 1337x more ergonomic than QWERTY/QWERTZ, which was designed for mechanical typewriters in 1878 and then never adjusted for the new reality of modern keyboards without hooks. If you are interested in the specific advantages: wikipedia
Now why would YOU be interested in it though? Maybe typing speed or ergonomics don't matter as much as thinking speed for most of us?
First: Check out layer 3 and 4 of the layout: ! !
All programming keys in a reasonable positions, arrow keys, a numpad, everything you need right there without the need to move your fingers anywhere else. A friend of mine who did not want to change from qwerty to neo simply uses a modified script that implements neo layers 3 and 4. It's a bit like the vim basics but everywhere available.
Second: Me and a friend started using it during our undergrads. I have convinced only three people since to change. But everyone of them is (having hated me for a few months) extremely grateful for having a reasonable keyboard layout for the rest of their life.
Third: It only takes a month of dedication and maybe three months of struggling if you really want to change to neo, not only add layer 3 and 4.
Fourth: For the lulz, there is only few people who can actually cause real mischief on my computer unless they manage to change the keyboard layout only by mouse. (I did not change the keyboard labeling).
imho, this layout should be spread through schools and universities, especially for people who will be coding most of their lives. I can't fathom how any sane programmer can create code with a german qwertz-keyboard, see how all the essential programming keys are in the unreachable top row. That's why (I hope) most programmers in Germany use the qwerty-layout which is definitely better, though still horrible compared to neo.
Changing perspective to a utopia, where children pick up neo from the start, they would scream at our standard layouts: WHY, WHY WOULD YOU SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE HAND?
Sorry for the polemics. But having a separate programming layer - and arrow keys and numpad and enter and backspace and tab and esc and scrolling keys and cool layer locks, etc. - just makes you wonder how any coder in the world would not use it. If you are teaching somewhere, please recommend or at least mention it. Everyone chooses their own tools, but most people just never wonder about the
stupidweird keyboard they got. I did, and I continue to profit from this.PS: Most mainstream distros have had de-neo as a default layout choice in their installer as long as I can remember. So there is hope that more people know it than I think. It was only once that I met another person who knew the layout.
PPS: Layers 5 and 6 are neat if you want to impress people by how fast you can type Γρεεκ, but since a lot of software has trouble with encoding in real life you still use the LaTeX-way.
PPPS: ANSI-keyboards suck for neo. it still works, but you lose two modifier keys. You get used to it, but just better get an ISO-keyboard.
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Remove Image Backgrounds Online - Clipping Magic
clippingmagic.com Clipping Magic: Remove Background From ImageRemove background from image 100% automatically — Smart Clip Editor — Crop, rotate, fix colors, add shadows & reflections — for Free
- alternativeto.net AlternativeTo - Crowdsourced software recommendations
AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tablets and more by recommending alternatives to apps you already know.
- yourcountdown.to Your Countdown To | Count down the days to everything
Counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to everything from TV series releases to Christmas & Halloween
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VS Code can do that?!
www.vscodecandothat.com VS Code Can Do That?All the best things about VS Code that nobody ever bothered to tell you
All the best things about Visual Studio Code that nobody ever bothered to tell you: https://www.vscodecandothat.com/
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How to be productive as a programmer with ADHD - George Nance
georgenance.com How to be productive as an ADHD programmer - George NanceBeing productive while having ADHD can sometimes feel like a colossal task. So I compiled a list of methods that will help you stay focused as a programmer.
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Vim Survival Toolkit
https://quentin.delcourt.be/blog/2020-06-30_vim-survival-toolkit/
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Digital Hygiene 101: Take Control Over Your Feeds
https://solmaz.io/thoughts/digital-hygiene-feeds/
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The 20 Best Productivity Apps for Android Device in 2020
https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-productivity-apps-for-android-device/
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The Hamming Question: "What is the most important problem, and why aren't you working on it?"
www.greaterwrong.com The Hamming QuestionA transcript of Hamming's extensive 1986 talk "You and your research", touches upon a several elements of Hamming's philosophy, and includes this anecdote about the canonical "Hamming Question": Vika Krakovna wrote up a report about how CFAR applies the technique in some of their workshops:
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Fileside - The file manager with unlimited panes
www.fileside.app HomeFileside is a modern multi-pane file manager that lets you create workspaces for different projects. It's a great alternative to Finder on Mac and Explorer on Windows.
https://www.fileside.app/
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Websearch Launcher
www.websearchlauncher.com Websearch Launcher Search Internet In Different Search EnginesWith Websearch Launcher 7.1 Freeware you are able to search the internet in different search engines, you only need on time to select text in websites or programs and then you can choose a search engine button that you like click it with your mouse or touch device and the Search Results will be done
Websearch Launcher is a portable utility designed to help speed up internet browsing by using multiple search engines to save time.
Websearch Launcher will allow you to perform Web searches via multiple search engines. This ability means you can select text on websites or programs. Then you can perform a search or translations from different search engines, including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Duckduckgo, and many others. Just choose the one that suits your needs: https://www.websearchlauncher.com/
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How To Write A Killer Software Engineer Resume
ankurkhemani.com How To Write A Killer Software Engineer Resume + Sample TemplateTips to write a perfect software engineer resume that will land you interviews from top tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.
https://ankurkhemani.com/tips-to-write-killer-software-engineer-resume/
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Unsilence
github.com GitHub - lagmoellertim/unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈 - GitHub - lagmoellertim/unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈
Unsilence is an open-source tool that removes silence from a media clip of your choice (audio, video). You can use it to speed up videos without changing the audible speed, so you can understand everything, but get through a video faster: https://github.com/lagmoellertim/unsilence
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Apse search engine
Apse is a search engine that's different: it runs on your computer. It's full-text search for everything you do: email, web content, documents, and anything else you use your computer for, all in one location.
Apse remembers everything you see, so you can search old versions of documents, deleted content online, or see changes over time: https://apse.io/
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JSON Master
JSON Master detects JSON responses in Chrome and converts them into a beautiful, lightweight interface that’s fun to use: https://jsonmaster.com/