Tiny tips: Git merge without commit

This is one of the "Tiny tips" series.The purpose is to share little pieces of helpful practices and tricks that will make your work better and more pleasant.Take a look at the other tiny tips like Automate your environment, Use cheat sheets. Most of the time when I am merging from another branch I don't want all …

The Frog, The Broken Window, And The Resistance

The Adaptivity There is a famous phrase from Albert Einstein which says that in this world survive not the strongest individuals, even not the smartest ones but those who are the most adaptive.And that is definitely true for most situations in life. Seriously, look at the cockroaches. They're so adaptive creatures and they can survive …

Working and music

This is one of the "tips" series.The purpose is to share little pieces of helpful practices and tricks that will make your work better and more pleasant.Take a look at some other tyny tips like: Automate your environment and Use cheat sheets. Do you prefer listening to music while working? If so - what kind of music? …

Tiny tips: Use cheat sheets

This is one of the "Tiny tips" series.The purpose is to share little pieces of helpful practices and tricks that will make your work better and more pleasant.Take a look at the other tiny tips like Automate your environment. Upgrade your working environment by surrounding yourself with easily accessible helpers. Print out some useful (for you) …

Tiny tips: Automate your environment

This is one of the "Tiny tips" series. The purpose is to share little pieces of helpful practices and tricks that will make your work better and more pleasant. Take a look at the other tiny tips like Use cheat sheets. You know the feeling when your machine needs to be restarted and then you have …

Watch out for burnout

Photo by nikko macaspac on Unsplash Working from home? How do you feel about it? I don't know about you, but from my experience working from home can lead to serious overwork and health neglect. When you have the working environment set-up at your home you can easily disregard your personal time and break the work-life balance. What …

10 steps for a good code review

Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash 1. Understand the problem Of course the first thing every code reviewer should do is to get himself familiar with the concrete problem which the implementation is meant to solve. You have to read the acceptance criteria, discuss them with the BA and with the developer to get the …

10 tips for a pleasant and productive software engineer’s everyday

Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash 1. Stand up every hour Yeah, it sounds trivial, but it is quite important not only for your health, but also for your focus. You can create a habit to stand up frequently or to make an effort to remind yourself by setting a timer. A pretty nice thing is the height adjustable …