493 Stories To Learn About Productivity

Let's learn about via these 493 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Productivity /Learn Repo Looking for a #LifeHack? You're in the right place. But first ask yourself, how many Pomodoros have you even done today? 1. How To Use VIM for Frontend Development: 2020 Edition Why would you want to use an editor that is almost 30 years old? Because it has come to stay, and isn’t it better to learn something that will stick around? Well, also because it is damn powerful. 2. Mono-repo Vs. Multi-repo Vs. Hybrid: What’s the Right Approach? I still remember my first day at Outbrain. As part of the Bootcamp (training program), we were required to clone the code from a repository called the trunk (one monolithic repo that contained all our codebase). It took at least half a day to clone and build the whole source code. Over the next year or two in which my team worked with a monorepo, we just suffered — cloning the repo was time-consuming; the slow build/release time frustrated us; flaky tests and bad commits affected all the engineering; and let’s not even mention the IntelliJ indexing time, which easily afforded us time to run down for a chatty coffee break. 3. No, AI Won't Replace You With the AI War in full swing, you can be forgiven for thinking this is the end of a stable pay check. But that's not the case and here is why... 4. No-Code? No, Thank You? “No-Code? No, Thank You.” – What Developers Say About The Latest Trend In Software Engineering. 5. AI in the Enterprise: It’s Coming for Your Job, Not for Your Pay In this article, we explore the impact of AI on job security and argue that while it won't necessarily affect workers' pay, it may replace some jobs altogether. 6. How Create a GUI for Remote Servers with i3 Window Manager This article is about providing management via a UI by installing a window manager or desktop environment for servers. 7. 12 Top Websites for Programmers, Developers, and Product People StackExchange 8. Becoming Consistent Becoming Consistent 9. How to 10x Software Engineering Productivity with Better Dev Tools Low-Code: Achieving 10x Software Engineering Productivity Through Better Dev Tools 10. 4 Reasons That Will Make Vim Your Favorite Editor Vim is a powerful text editor. It's popular amongst coders and writers, and in this blog post, I will convince you to use it. 11. How to Write a Bug Report That Doesn't Suck Most of the time, engineers get poor bug reports that they cannot act upon. 12. How To Build A Portfolio Website with React, ChakraUi and framerMotion Create or build a beautiful portfolio website with react, ChakraUi and framerMotion 13. If You Want to Learn Better, Put Down the Tutorial, and Start Practicing Going from tutorial to tutorial to achieve this imaginary 100% knowledge of a topic is very detrimental. 14. The Pursuit of Dopeness New decade, new you. (Okay it’s usually a new year, not a decade but you get the picture. 15. Smalltalk Isn't Dead: Here's Why You Should Use It Here are the reasons why Smalltalk isn't dead. 16. 10 Ways Tech Is Increasing Workplace Productivity Productivity in business is the continual effort of applying new methods and techniques. In simple words, productivity is getting quality work done quickly. 17. 3 Ways Personal Projects Make You A Better Developer 18. The Entrepreneurs' Guide to Better Sleep and Productivity Sleep is vital for the human body to function. So why does the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that more than one-third of professionals aren’ 19. Googling Is a Skill: 4 Advanced Search Tips to Ask Google the Right Way Why don't you just ask Google? 20. React Project Structure: Best Practices A more standard way of structuring React applications which scales across frameworks and projects. 21. 7 Rules to Track Software Engineering Metrics Correctly How to Use - and NOT Abuse - Software Engineering Metrics 22. The 7 Simplest Habits of Highly Effective Founders How Startup Owners Can Boost Their Productivity: Simple Tips That Really Work. 23. What Makes a GREAT Scrum Master It is good to have a scrum master involved in your agile process, but what makes a great scrum master? In this article we look to break down the fundamental pieces to becoming the best scrum master you are capable of being. First, we must define what a scrum master is. 24. It Isn't Just GitLens: 6 Cool VS Code Extensions to Supercharge Git Yes, I know, we should all be terminal ninjas, memorising every git command yadda yadda. Or, like the caveman, we could put two sticks together (or in this case 25. Why This Product Manager Uses n8n for His Mental Healthcare App Mani Kumar, co-founder of The Mind Clan, has been using n8n for both personal and professional purposes. He has been advocating about process automation and how it can bring about a lot of benefits for individuals and companies. We talked to him to learn more about his experience with workflow automation and why he decided to use n8n. 26. Why Aren't You Using Aliases in Webpack Config? Are you Developer doing FrontEnd? Are you using Webpack? 27. Can an AI Chatbot Help You Develop Healthier Messaging Habits? Social media can be a dangerous place to hang out. Researchers have found that compulsive use of social media can cause a lot more than just nervousness, low self-esteem, anxiety and jealousy. In fact, a study of how social media affects our health reveals that using social networks obsessively can cause depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), impulsive disorder, problems with mental functions, loneliness, addiction, and paranoia. 28. 5 Reasons Why Going Remote Will Benefit Your Software Business Who would know the best way to obtain efficiency with employees is to offer them as much flexibility as possible? Especially recently, working remotely has become the standard practice across industries. As the pioneers of this trend, technology companies are hiring more remote workers every day, realizing the remote work benefits. The reason for this is that remote work has many favorable effects on employee morale, and thus work efficiency, which tech businesses can benefit from. 29. Sharing Reusable Angular Components When building Angular applications you compose the UI of your applications through shared reusable Angular components. 30. Everything You Need to Run a Meetup from Home Over the last couple months, I've created a pretty sweet setup for running meetups -- including the IBM Developer SF Meetup -- and the ForwardJS conference series from my home. Let me show you how! 31. A Practical Guide to Understanding Systems (Source) 32. How To Improve Concentration: 2021 Edition How to improve your focus - especially as a software developer. Book review of Deep Work by Cal Newport. 33. A Guide to Design Thinking and Continuous Delivery from an Ex-Principal Engineer How do the big tech companies and unicorn startups succeed in agile product development while maintaining code quality. 34. How to Evangelize a Programming Language In today’s IT world, there is a vast array of programming languages fighting for mind share and market share. Of course, there are the mainstays like Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, and C++. But nipping at their heels are many recent entries in the programming language Hunger Games such as Clojure, Crystal, Dart, Elixir, F#, Haxe, Julia, Kotlin, Nim, Pharo, Rust, TypeScript, etc. There are even a few not-so-new languages like Haskell (1990), Lua (1993), OCaml (1996), and Racket (1994). And they all want to grab your attention and convince you that they’re the road to programming bliss. 35. 5 Tips to Help you Start Programming I've been trying to start programming since early 2015 and I was finally able to start in 2020. It took a long time for me to start programming. There are certain things, that hindered me from learning. I tried multiple ways to overcome my issues but I failed. It took almost six years to finally convince myself to learn to program. Just in six months, I’ve learned C, C++, JavaScript, and Python. Though I’m no expert, I’ve just gathered basic knowledge of these. 36. Without a Stick and a Carrot: Three Life Hacks for Managing a Team It's becoming increasingly important to keep your team motivated without using a "carrot and stick" approach. 37. Ukraine-based CEO Vasiliy Ivanov on Solving Problems, Productivity, And Taking Charge Vasiliy Ivanov is the CEO of KeepSolid, an international tech company with most of our team based in Odesa, Ukraine. 38. How to Enable Autocomplete (and AI) in your Terminal Here's how I enhance my terminal with autocomplete and Artificial Intelligence 39. 5 JetBrains Plugins to Take Your Productivity through the Roof 5 great JetBrains plugins that will make you and your dev team more productive in a remote setup: GitLive, Code Time, Git Machete, Stepsize, Smart Search. 40. 5 Tips and Tricks I Use To Code 3 Times Faster Here are my 5 tips and trick I use to code 3 times faster. Find out how you can start earning more money and save your precious time. 41. My Challenge to Excel Users: I Dare you to Learn How to Code What if, instead of starting that next Excel spreadsheet, you tried your hand at trying to write some code to do the exact same thing? 42. Top 5 VS Code Extensions to Boost Your Coding Productivity Today I prepared for you my pick of relatively new, interesting extensions from the VS Code marketplace that have recently been growing in popularity. 43. 8 Mistakes we made in our Company’s First 8 Years When you’re first starting out, everything is a mistake. Everything is a failure and life sucks. But, the mistakes are actually a personal godsend, because you learn from them. You overcome challenges. You make a better thing, or service, because you made mistakes that helped you to grow. 44. 5 Web Dev Tools To Improve Your Productivity Time is always a scarce resource for developers. From aggressive deadlines, to multiple projects, to unexpected requirements, our time is constantly in demand. That's why we're always on the lookout for tools and processes that help us boost productivity. In this article, we'll look at five web development tools that might just give you that extra boost in productivity you need. 45. Top 10 AI Tools to Check Out If You're Bored With ChatGPT The article showcases the top 10 AI tools that can transform the way you work and live by automating tasks and improving productivity. 46. How to Think like A Programmer? What do you think can help me think like a programmer? Here are the core areas that are important to get that "programmer brain." 47. 22 Simple Ways to Learn Faster I know how it feels. 48. 17 Interesting JavaScript Tricks There are many ways to write code but generally the first way for many people is very long and can take you some time. Here is my latest post that will increase your efficiency and productivity when coding JavaScript. 49. Web Scrape with Python Using Just 9 Lines of Code Scraping is extracting data from websites. In this article, I will show you how to scrape links from a test e-commerce site with Python 3. 50. 7 Game-Changing AI Tools in 2023 Discover 7 AI tools that will save you so many hours. 51. How I Use Zettelkasten and Obsidian to Keep My Notes Organized I use Zettelkasten and Obsidian to make a connected web of notes that help me with being more productive and learning new concepts much faster than normal. 52. An Open Letter to Everybody Having Trouble Getting Started Today How to stop inactivity and just start what you want to do. The flywheel concept of getting things off the ground and the best and only time to start is now! 53. 4 Steps to Actually Finish your Side Project We’ve all seen the graveyard of abandoned projects folders. Desperately competing for attention but failing in the glow of a new adventure or app that will change the world. I use to do that all the time, now I finished 4 apps, and 2 other projects within the last year by applying the following steps. 54. How to Install RStudio on the WSL System If you are using Windows and don’t want to use the RStudio client on the Windows side, this method will work perfectly. 55. 6 Reasons to Know At least One Programming Language When you start reading this, I’m assuming you don’t know much about programming and you’re highly curious about why you need to learn a new language when you’re not aware of why you actually need it. Here I’m giving you 6 reasons for you to learn a new programming language. 56. Why do People Say: "Developers are Lazy"? The saying “work smart, not hard” is applicable for programmers. 57. Touch Typing: Consistency is Key It is a fun experience 🎯 when I started out touch typing. It only took me 7.5 months of practice to increase my speed from 20wpm to 75-90 wpm💪. 58. How To Overcome Procrastination Procrastination is a coping mechanism for negative emotions such as boredom, frustration, self-doubt, and anxiety. 59. An Evidence-Based Guide to Nootropics and Cognitive Enhancement [Comic] After years of listening to people preach misinformed rubbish about nootropics and cognitive enhancement, I decided to do the responsible thing and write a comic to preach myself. 60. The Best Way to Avoid E-mail Spam E-mail service providers do a good job of filtering out spam messages for you, but there's one easy trick to avoid it completely. 61. How we kindly asked our users to update their app via an XSS attack Our guide to releasing an app update through an XSS attack 62. How To Automate Book Data Entry With Notion and Google Sheets Get and create book data entry on Notion using Google Sheet and Zapier. 63. The Best Chrome Extensions in 2022 I asked, “what are the best browser extensions for browsers?” I received 50+ replies. Here are the best 10. 64. Chrome Extension Productivity Hack: Copy Text with a Mouse Hover and Click Copy Text, paragraphs, and sentences in a hassle-free manner as never before using this simple tool available for free. 65. 8+ Portfolio and Resume Templates to To Showcase Your Skills 💼✨ A professional-looking portfolio and a well-written resume are both essential to succeed in the job-seeking phase. 66. Learning How To Learn Is One of The Most Valuable Skills You Can Learn Ever been stuck not knowing how to learn to code? Look no further than here! In this guide I will teach you 3 ways to learn more efficiently and effectively. 67. You Needn’t Be Perfect as Software Developers, Live Your Life We know that the software community has a multidisciplinary structure. In such a situation, you should not feel inadequate. 68. Improving Software Development Productivity Software development takes time and effort and requires patience, but if it’s taking too long it can hurt the business. That’s why it’s important to always consider what you can do to improve your software development productivity. 69. How Product Manager Solve Complex Problems Excellent problem-solving skill is very essential for a Product Manager, because in the real day to day as a Product Manager will face a lot of complex problems that require deeply thinking for finding the root cause of problems, not only user’s problems but also internal problems such as slow development process, increase growth rate, increase retention rate, etc. 70. How to Consistently Deliver Your Projects on Time: 5 Tips to Follow The bread and butter of knowledge work is figuring out what needs to be done, in what order, and what can be cut. 71. 5 Quick Productivity Tips for Busy Solopreneurs Not only do these productivity tips work, they also rhyme for easy recall. 72. How I Force Myself to Work No one seems to be immune to procrastinating, myself included. Some people get drawn into social media, for others it's YouTube or ProductHunt. I, however, tend to lose whole days on Wikipedia and development communities. Everyone has their poison. If you really are one of these odd people who don't know what procrastination is, check out this video: 73. Why Git Is A Great Documentation Management Tool Sometimes not only documentation but also the process of working on it may be critical. For example, in the case of projects, the lion’s share of the work is related to preparing documentation, and the wrong process may lead to errors and even loss of information, and, consequently, loss of time and benefits. But even if this topic is not central to your work, the right process can still improve the quality of the document and save you time. 74. Top 10 Questions Managers are asking in REAL Team Meetings to 🚀 productivity My team meeting is crucial. I get everyone in a room and get everything I need out of them — with the added bonus of the team getting in sync, right? Wrong. Turns out, managers are blind to how crucial that meeting is to others. Only 4–9% of problems are known to managers... gulp 75. Can we apply DevOps principles to Project Management? It is always worth remembering that good ideas are contagious. Other minds have wrestled with problems similar to yours before and effective solutions tend to bubble up and can be re-applied to new initiatives in ways that can often appear obvious in hindsight. 76. Increasing Developer Productivity with skaffold Primary focus of Developer is to write code. Build, Test and Deploy of the application are better left to be managed by tools. skaffold can help in automating some of mundane tasks that comes with using kubernetes. 77. 8 Enterprise Software Companies Using Artificial Intelligence to Transform Workspace Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the forefront of conversations from employers across the globe. AI is helping organizations make incredible strides in efficiently handling mundane and repetitive tasks and freeing up valuable time and thought space that employees can use to exercise more creativity, solve complex problems, and otherwise focus on the bigger picture. 78. 8 Google Chrome Extensions to Record Any Meeting 8 Google Chrome extensions nobody told you about ( but you needed them badly at work. 79. Introduction to Object-Oriented Design Patterns After hitting a certain level of experience & spending quite enough time in the industry, I have realised the importance of designing/architecting system & software. So I have started looking into system/software design & got to know nothing can better start than a Design Pattern. And the first thing I have done is googling "What is Design Pattern?" Hence got the idea of this article. 80. The Notion Dashboard that "Gets Things Done" and How I Built it Note: This article is part of my toolkit newsletters↗️ where I share resources about building things. Join me :) 81. How Imposter Syndrome Affects Developers Imposter syndrome is a feeling in software development. Not only does beginners or mid-level developers face this problem, but also the experienced coders. 82. How To Type HTML & CSS Effectively I wouldn’t like to carry out the same long and boring known task after somebody told me that there is a better and shorter way of doing the same. 83. How to Create a Simple Dashboard with Google Forms and Google Data Studio Google products are generally free for use, don’t need to go overboard if you handle simple data. No Cost, Just Productive Dashboard 84. Productivity Hack: How Developers can Reduce Context Switching Context switching prevents developers from finishing tasks quickly. Let's look at how to avoid constant context switching to improve productivity. 85. How To Get The Most Out The Pomodoro Technique To Be Highly Productive Developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, the Pomodoro technique calls for using a timer to break down work into 25-minute intervals separated by short 5-minute breaks. After four sessions of work, the Pomodoro technique prescribes a longer 30-minute break. 86. Use Your JavaScript Coding Skills to Earn Profit — Even While You Sleep A “not-so-hidden secret” for leveraging your JavaScript coding skills so that you effectively decouple your time and your method of getting money 87. Why Backend and DevOps Roles May Become One in the Future I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and “DevOps” engineers will coalesce to include almost everything that “the user doesn’t see”. 88. We Asked AI to Improve This Article See how you can prompt our AI agent to generate content based on specific knowledge inside of a content index or at a particular URL. 89. On Productivity Tools And Time Management With Julien Quintard, Founder Of Routine An interview with Julien Quintard on why he is building Routine and why productivity tools as we know it is going to change drastically in the a few quarters. 90. 10 Best Web Dev Tools of 2021 Top 10 Web Dev Tools in 2021 91. The Pillars of a Successful Startup The ability to launch and scale a project efficiently is a practice mastered with experience and, in most cases, a whole portfolio of failures. 92. 10 Promising Hardware Startups to Follow in 2020 Software is not the only tech thriving right now. Many hardware startups are making great strides in innovation and design to provide solutions for some of our most pressing issues. From food and air quality testing to an advanced action camera that fits in the palm of your hand, these ten hardware startups are ones to watch in 2020. 93. Vim: How to Start Using The Text Editor for Developers Typing faster is just not scalable enough. Source: Pixabay 94. Consistency as a Moat: How to Write More by Prioritizing your Weaknesses The best way to optimise consistency is to prioritize the things which you're worse at, or where you can have improvement. 95. The ROI of Git Analytics tools Software engineers create all those great platforms and tools for every other industry, and yet, engineering leaders struggle to understand the work of their engineering teams. They struggle to correlate engineering output to business value. 96. 12 Best Vscode Extensions to Boost Your Productivity in 2022 This article is about some useful VScode Extensions that you can use to increase your productivity and save some time while programming in 2022. 97. How to Boost Your Coding Productivity with Plop I can’t remember when I first heard the phrase “work smarter, not harder”, but I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve my coding productivity and get the most out of my time, especially when writing code or managing projects. I recently discovered Plop, a micro-generator framework, and now I wonder how I ever managed without it! 98. The Ultimate List of Free iOS Apps you Need to Get (2022) Nearly 90% of mobile internet time is spent on apps. There are over 2 Million apps, so in this article, I'll show you the best free apps the App Store offers! 99. 5 Bad Habits Of Software Developers There is no hard and fast rule as to how a programmer should program. So, there is nothing wrong if you have your own style of programming. 100. AI-Assisted Coding with Tabnine Be more productive, write code faster, make fewer mistakes, and have to do less context switching between other windows and your IDE. 101. Dealing with a Large Undocumented Codebase I was recently asked to answer the somewhat vague question, “How do you interact with a large undocumented code base?” 102. 12 Best Basic HTML Snippets to Use Instead of Complex Libraries This article is a heads up that you can do a lot with just vanilla HTML and a bit of CSS if you want it to look pretty. Here's how... 103. Top 5 VS Code Extensions for Remote Working A list of the best VS code extensions. [104. 7 Reasons Why You Should Switch To Linux](https://hackernoon.com/7-reasons-why-you-should-switch-to-linux-rp6f3wd6) Your current computer or laptop shows the same performance no longer? This is absolutely no reason to choose new hardware and invest money in buying a cut edge device. We know a much more attractive solution. It is Linux! 105. Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors Many developers believe multiple monitors improve productivity. Studies have proven it, right? Well, keep in mind, many of those studies are commissioned from monitor manufacturers like Dell and NEC . 🤔 106. Setting Up Manjaro Linux From Scratch!! STEP 1 : Download an Image File 😉 107. 18 Best Productivity Apps For Remote Workers Working remotely means managing a lot of work, and all you want to do is manage your time efficiently. 108. What Will be the 3 Biggest Software Development Trends of 2022? The number of software developers globally is due to almost double by 2030, yet InterSystems research has found that more than 8 out of 10 developers currently feel they work in a pressured environment. Creating a better experience for developers is key for inciting innovation, but the current data environment continues to evolve in ways that challenge the experience at every turn. 109. The Right Way to Learn to Program How to learn programming topics efficiently and effectively. 110. 3 Sharpest Instruments for Debugging: Using the Old-School Mind Mapping Strategy I found a bug in one of the open-source GitHub repositories and fixed it using the three sharpest instruments: pen, paper, and brain. 111. Top 10 Business Development Tools in 2020 and 2021 Slack, Rocketbolt, and Trello are among the best business development tools in 2021. In this article, we'll go over 10 tools your business should consider. 112. This Is What I Learnt After Making Over 1,000 Code Reviews This story was originally published on my blog. If you're interested in this kind of content, feel free to check it out and subscribe :) 113. Don't Be Scared Of Indeterminacy Hello, people! I'm an IT analyst from Russia, and I want to make the world around me better. Last time I worked for the biggest Russian energy company as a business analyst, and during my work, I noticed that it is unnecessary to be good at making the final result even if you are a really good professional in your field. 114. How to Create a Habit Tracker in Notion Why Even Track Your Habits? 115. Product Teams: Stop Estimating, Start Budgeting Why do we so often ask teams to estimate in detail how much effort is required to build a product, and to that upfront? There’s evidence that this lead us to output-oriented thinking, premature optimization, bloat and generally a commitment to suboptimal solutions that are designed with too many assumptions and a lack of clarity on the problem space. 116. How To Auto-Correct Your Code: A Web Developer Guide Learning to code can be tons of fun but it is often overwhelming. Web developers, especially new ones, are constantly learning new content. What makes it worse is that there are so many rules to learning how to write good code. 117. 5 Developer Tools Worth the Money to Boost Your Productivity Tools that help you develop faster or more efficiently can easily pay for themselves in terms of time saved, because, as they also say, time is money. 118. Triple Your Results With These Top 8 VSCode Extensions We all use some VS Code extensions for our day to day development and are always on a hunt for more useful extensions. Here is a list of mine and how I use them: 119. How To Use the "10/50/99" Approach to Give Feedback And how it reduces the odds you frustrate your team to the brink of leaving 120. How I started my IoT Company A biological marvel, the human itself known as homo sapiens. In the Latin language, it stands for a wise man. A wise man that survived about 200,000 years of evolution and extinction. There are many perspectives towards its survival and today I would like to share my perspective, slightly vague but different. There is a concept of what drives you that has become popular within the last decade. Certain presumptions about the driving force are based upon raw emotional aspects such as passion and rage. I find to myself that these aspects are reactions to our stubbornness to keep on going on but the negative aspect is that these reactions are short-lived and eventually man settles with peace. I would like to share a certain experience in a short period of my life that has produced results beyond my expectations. It is a small story of how I created my IoT Device converted into a product and made a company out of it. 121. 4 Notion + Zapier Integrations You Can Implement Today Notion, the hottest productivity app of the moment, has been promising an API for quite a while. As of today, the official API is nowhere in sight. 122. I Did The 10-Day (Silent) Vipassana Course And Doubled My Productivity "In the middle of 2018, in the midst of the Blockchain and crypto-mania research and roadshows, I was consulting with dozens of startups on China strategies, dealing with endless emails, taking calls during the night due to different time zones, and constantly answering pop-up messages on Whatsapp, WeChat, Telegram, and Facebook. Ultimately, it was negatively affecting my mental health. My head felt like hundreds of tabs in a single browser trying to load multiple types of information..." 123. How to Lead More Productive Meetings When it comes to scheduling meetings, I am a firm believer in Maker’s schedule vs Manager’s schedule. In his essay, Paul Graham touches upon the topic of optimizing the number of meetings. In this article, I would like to talk about another related aspect of meetings, i.e. how to optimize the meetings themselves by establishing good meeting etiquettes. 124. How To Say "No" At Work Without Sounding Like A Jerk “No” is often equated with being mean but “no” isn’t about shutting projects and people down. Here's how to say no in a corporate setting without sounding rude. 125. Can You Use ChatGPT to Save Time Doing Day-to-day Product Management Tasks? Product managers, especially in startups, have to deal with a ton of different tasks on a daily basis. Could some of those tasks be made easier with ChatGPT? 126. I created Postwoman 👽 - An online, open source API request builder Postwoman 👽 - API request builder 127. Vim and Emacs can be BFF Short History 128. The Da Vinci Schedule — How to Organize Your Day and Week for Peak Performance At the moment, I am working on multiple projects and I identified that structure and proper evaluation of psychological and physiological parameters is the key to ensuring a productive schedule. 129. How to Learn Things Fast Without Going Crazy As people who work in the tech industry, we often need to learn new technologies for our work. But how can you actually learn things fast? 130. 3 Daily Newsletters Worth Subscribing 📰 On any given day, you'll find tons of stories that are seemingly important, some moving, others hilarious/weird. 131. A Minimalistic Web Portfolio for all developers 😎 A small minimal Portfolio for developers who are tiring of thinking about creating their new portfolio website. Due to the Pandemic outbreaks I've been spending a lot of time at home (as we all are), so I was thinking of creating a weekend fun project. While searching for ideas I came up with this. So that you can pull/fork this repo and use it to showcase their talents. 132. How to Think Like Elon Musk When a South African school boy bullied for “being too smart” becomes a trailblazer for billion dollar companies in future — the world wants to peep into his mind. 133. 5 Things I Learned as a Junior Software Developer I started my first job as a software developer around 4 months back and since I was coming from a freelance background, I had my own way of writing code. Most of the time, my code wasn’t read by anyone. Yeah, not even my clients due to their lack of technical expertise. 134. 7 Best Project Management Tools for Developers (+ Free Templates) You may have heard the analogy that developing software is a lot like building a house. 135. Vim: How to use Multiple Clipboards to do Copy and Paste on Steroids Productivity is always one pomodoro away. Source: Pixabay 136. Why You Should Manage WIP Having too much Work in Process, also known as Work in Progress (WIP), is a remarkably common issue. In my experience, management often encourages this behavior. I don’t know if it is the notion that we will get more done if we work on more things simultaneously. Or perhaps there is a fear we won’t get enough things done unless we work on several of them at once. 137. Synchronous Communication is the New Cocaine in Silicon Valley This blog from Paul Graham beautifully articulates why meetings kill productivity for people in the "maker's schedule": 138. 5 Best VS Code Extensions to Help Organise Your Code in 2021 Use these 6 VS Code extensions that help devs get organised and work effectively. 139. 3 Habits That Will Help You Become a Top Developer Who/what, according to you, is a programmer’s best friend? Some say coffee, others say keyboard shortcuts but I think it is Stack Overflow. 140. How to be Bored (the Right Way) Boredom is one of the biggest problems of modernity. Or is it? 141. 24 HTML Attributes You Want to Use ✨📚 A review of some of the HTML attributes you might want to use. 142. Algorithms vs. Heuristics (with Examples) Algorithms and heuristics are not the same. In this post, you'll learn how to distinguish them. 143. Market Scenarios: Bitcoin Could Reach $25,000 Soon Travel is one of the most critical aspects of the global economy. The international community and global economy were built on the ability of people to move from place to place and access lands unknown. It is part of what makes the world what it is today. 144. So You Want to Start Your Own Business? — 10 Invaluable Things People Never Tell You They say that the only way to self-mastery is by assuming absolute control over your life processes. Entrepreneurship is one of the activities that can have a massive impact in that respect. It is an activity that will not only allow you to take matters into your own hands but also reveal the essence of the words responsibility, discipline, and productivity in all its glory. 145. Notion : A Product That Users Love, and VCs Can't Invest Into If you somehow navigate the mysterious path to reach the Notion HQ at 1:00 PM PST on a Friday, you would find an empty office with two golden poodles and a mutt running around. The entire team would not be far though, just shy of a mile away sitting at Barzotto and eating Extra-Long Noodles pasta over a glass of sparkling white wine. Add some soft serve gelato to that. This is just one of the many idiosyncrasies you would find in this 20 member start-up that has captured over a million users with their sleek product. 146. Find the Right VP of Engineering for Your Company No matter whether you’re just starting to build a business, growing a company, leading a major corporation, or anything in between, technical leadership will be one of the most important decisions and hires you make. In today’s software-driven world, many companies are being founded by technical founders themselves, but that’s not always the case. 147. 6 Remote Productivity Tips for Team Work At the moment due to coronavirus, all Skyeng teams work from home. For us, the shift to remote work was much easier than for many teams who are used to the office environment. At Skyeng, 90% of employees and contractors have been working remotely since their first day. 148. Music for Work Photo by Gorodenkoff at dissolve 149. Should I stay in a Toxic Workplace? A question that many people face in today’s toxic workplaces is — “Should I stay? Even though I know that my workplace is toxic.” 150. 3 Ergonomic Keyboards for Developers, Ranked by a Developer Ergonomic keyboards help programmers with longevity. 151. The Five Step Approach for Tackling Complex Problems “The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.” - Albert Einstein 152. How Developers Should Invest Their Time In today’s, in the past and probably in the future world — the time is more valuable than money, and the right time waits for no one. Hence, we have to make the most out of it to succeed in life. 153. A Quick Guide to Lean Software Development Principles I remember learning about lean manufacturing at Toyota in an early middle school business class, and was endlessly fascinated by the idea of minimizing waste and maximizing productivity through intentional design. Over time, lean methodology was adopted by several industries, outside of manufacturing, including software development. 154. Productivity Guide: How to Be Less Busy and More Effective In our hectic modern world, we believe that rushing from one task to the next and managing multiple priorities shows everyone that we are productive. 155. 10 Best Slack Apps for Remote Work In 2021 Plus a bonus sneak preview at #11. 156. Helpful Tips for Writing Clean Code In this short, but nonetheless useful article, I have summarized the most beneficial tips for writing clean code. These rules are independent of the language you use and are invaluable for both beginners and experienced programmers. 157. Salesforce Sandbox Data Mask For Add-On Security And Sandbox Refresh Process When it comes to data security, Salesforce sandbox Data Mask is a mighty tool, which is largely used by the Salesforce developer and admins lately. 158. 5 Git Tips You Should Try For Better Workflow No matter how experienced you are, Git will always find a way to surprise you. It is loaded with neat tricks that have the power to make your daily coding routi 159. How to Plan your First 90 Days as a New Product Manager There is always that new product manager who is wondering what the next 3 months will look like. The successes, learnings, adaptations, expectations, and the list goes on and on. 160. What Makes You a Great Programmer on The Team? Majority of software developers are aspired to be not only a competent professional but also a great one. 161. 4 Reasons Why Email Is Obsolete, and You Should Move On Chances are, your business’ primary mode of internal communication is email. And you’re using instant messaging (IM) apps for virtual meetups and updates from the team, thanks to the coronavirus. Don’t get me wrong, email is great and all for internal communication (if you lived in the 20th century that is). But did you know your email to your teammates gets lost in a sea of unimportant emails? And irrelevant emails account for about 62% of the total emails in an average inbox! 162. A Weekly Project Plan so Good You Will Want to Frame It Use weekly project plans to improve your agile team's ability to plan and reason about the future. 163. Work Smarter, Not Harder. Memoize It. My favorite parts of Computer Science are things that remind me of being human. Believe it or not Computers have this emergent property where as they become more complex they start to do things just like us. We touched on this when I wrote about Recursion. There I discussed how a computer function will call it self over and over until it gets the answer it wants. So very… human of it and to me this touches on problem solving. Memoization can extend this human like quality further. 164. Why Side Projects Are Important To some, the idea of side projects is an unwelcomed distraction. They have what they need to do, and they need to get it done before the next thing. For others, side projects are a key motivation of the day-to- day. 165. I Plan to Learn Coding Before 2022: Here's How During the application process for this online class, I first discovered what programming was all about. So I started researching how to learn to code. 166. A Manual For Leading Scrum Teams To Maturity If teams are not disciplined about the process, or not technically mature enough to actually deliver the work committed to a sprint, scrum processes are bound to fail. 167. How to work on a startup when your motivation runs out In most cases, positive motivation drives a person starting a new business. He wants to make the best product, become a leader, or earn a profit. When that positive motivation runs out, there are two possible scenarios. 168. 3 Tools to Help Your Remote Team Stay Productive As companies across the world continue to take precautions against COVID-19, many teams find themselves "suddenly remote" and adjusting to a new set of challenges on top of their daily work. At Exponent, we've been operating as a remote team for most of the past year, with engineers, designers, and PMs spread across several time zones—not to mention thousands of users around the world who are part of our Slack community and Interview Practice forum. 169. I Helped Build 5 Companies before 34 and This is The #1 Mistake First time Founders Make The debate was deadlocked. Three members of my team at Kanary—the platform I’d built for brands to buy digital ad space—agreed with me, and three didn’t. It was 2013, and I’d spent the last year building Kanary as the company’s founder and CEO. 170. How To Take Notes So Good They Become Your Second Brain Today, we consume more information per person than at any other time in human history. We are continually reading, observing, monitoring, conversing and mentally trying to build a knowledge of the world we can use in our daily work and lives. The problem? The disparity between the total quantity of human knowledge and our ability to assimilate and filter it grows, unremittingly, by the day. 171. 7 Strategies for Maximum Productivity You are reading this because of one of two reasons. Either you want to be more productive, or you are looking for all that time that you lose during the day. You woke up early, worked all day and it still seems that your code or project did not move anywhere. 172. Why Reading Code is Just as Important as Writing Code: How to Get Better at it Reading code can help you become a better writer of it. 173. 4 Websites That Will Help You Work With Full Productivity By using these tools, you'll be able to focus on what you do best: writing high-quality code that gets the job done. 174. Enhancing Your Git Commit Messages Photo by Yancy Min on Unsplash 175. 4 Ways to Boost Your Buying Power For most businesses, “buying power” is a phrase reserved primarily for customers. In today’s ecosystem, however, each company is as much a buyer as it is a seller — and yours is no exception. Heading a successful organization is never cheap, so the more bang you can get for your buck the better. 176. 7 Visual Studio Code Extensions That Help Frontend Developers Increase Productivity As a developer, you’re always looking for cutting-edge tools, tricks, and extensions to improve your productivity and efficiency. 177. How To Boost Your Coding Productivity with Plop Previously, I talked about how Plop can help increase productivity when coding by reducing context switching. In this article, we’ll dive into an example and configure a Plop generator to create a React component in Typescript. By the end, you’ll be able to start using Plop to build your own generators for any type of project and reap the productivity benefits! 178. How to Learn All VSCode Shortcuts on Mac, Linux and Windows Do you feel intimidated when you see other programmers quickly navigate through hundreds of lines of code, make blazing fast edits or open multiple tabs during development and hardly touch their mouse or touch-pad ? 179. Why Working Remotely Normally Works, and Why This Isn't Normal Under normal circumstances, the switch to remote work can benefit teams and companies. his sudden switch was unprecedented, and challenging to navigate. 180. Finding A Software Developer Mentor When You're A Newbie Your first job as a software developer can be very challenging. Having a mentor to discuss your industry-related challenges can be key to your career. 181. 5 JetBrains Plugins to Upgrade the Built-In Git Support to the Next Level These five JetBrains Git Plugins can drastically improve your productivity by adding new features and utilities to assist you with your coding projects 182. Prepare for 2022 With These Developer Tools The demand for innovation and collaboration improvements for remote teams (and dev teams in particular) is probably one of the strongest trends to bet on. 183. My Best Employees Keep Leaving and I Know I'm The Reason I keep losing my best employees. I know I'm the reason, but I refuse to change. So how do I screw up my best people? I challenge and provide them with feedback. 184. Your Guide To Productive Python Programming Have you ever felt that you are not coding Python as productive as you want to be? Python avoids repetition to do more work with less code. 185. The Outstanding Developer Book: Distractions Around Us And Developer Productivity Think about a normal day of work. You arrive at the office, take a coffee, start coding, do some code review, have lunch, some meetings, code again, and that’s it. But is it really? 186. How the Right Problem Statement Can Save you From Unnecessary Work Try our problem statement guide to ease team collaboration & prioritization process. Develop a distinct workflow and bring order. Get synched and result-driven. Make your team understand what they do and why. 187. Comments Rarely Improve Your Code The debate over comments in code is ongoing. At least once per year for the last 30 years, I’ve been involved in a discussion on the subject - often accidentally and reluctantly. To be honest, my perspective has changed over time. I used to comment every method, I used to comment any line of code that was “weird”, and I used to comment any blocks of code that were too complicated. Today, I rarely comment, if ever. Over time, I’ve come to realize that most comments are unnecessary. 188. Creative Automation is Shaking Up the Digital Marketing Game Creative automation is the idea of using technology to customize video or banner ads into thousands of variations in minutes. It removes repetitive manual work. 189. Work Smarter, Not Harder: 7 Powerful Tips To Manage Your Projects Better Thinking is probably one of the hardest, daunting tasks, and George Bernard Shaw had his perspective that made me think more about my way of dealing with challenges. 190. How To Code Faster with Hundreds of Shortcuts in TeaCode TeaCode is a time-saving app from Apptorium that gives you an enormous library of expendable code snippets for any programming language. Instead of typing the whole action, you can only put down the expander and it with unfold into a full section of code. Every time you use an expander, you save loads of efforts on hand-coding every line. Plus, you can create your own expanders in any language. 191. How to Correctly Use Variables When Coding in Python understanding variables when programming will help you become a better programmer 192. How Smart Developers Will Become Rich in 2023 Smart developers will become reach by building micro-apps. 193. 174 AI Tools To Try An overview of 174 AI Tools, a very long overview. Most are free or have a free trial period, some you have to pay for immediately. I’ve broken it down into 8 c 194. 22+ Dev Tools, Websites, and Plugins that Help You Become a Better Developer In this article, I will share my main 22 most loved web tools that make your life as an engineer simpler. 195. How to Make Inbox Zero More Achievable Using Apple Mail Tutorial on a new email workflow that uses Apple Mail and email forwarding. Forward all your emails from Gmail, Outlook, AOL, Yahoo Mail to a central spot. 196. How we built ToDoBot for Slack in 3 days Technically, it was four days, but we were working on it in between taking customer calls and fixing OneBar bugs so, let’s call it three ;) [197. How to Become a Great Developer in 2022](https://hackernoon.com/how-to-become-a-great-developer-in-2022) Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment team (DORA) have released the State of DevOps report 2021. It’s of no surprise that the most successful teams are 198. How to define and spend your tech debt budget If you’ve ever been involved in sprint planning and argued to carve out time to pay back some technical debt (i.e. define a tech debt budget), this is how to go about it. 199. iOS16 Makes Apple Reminders Irresistible All new underrated features in Apple Reminders in iOS 16 200. Unlock the Secret to Startup Success by Mastering the Explore-Exploit Loop Startups need to strike a balance between seeking new opportunities and maximizing the existing ones. 201. The 5 Podcasts to Check If You Want to Get Up To Speed on AI From AI researchers to industry experts, tune in to these podcasts and explore the latest developments in the fascinating world of artificial intelligence. 202. 7 Best Ways to Increase Workforce Productivity 2020 will go down in history as the year that turned the trend that was working from home into the norm for businesses across the globe. Everyone who can feasibly work from home is now doing so. 203. How To Use Django as Your SaaS Framework The Django Framework has been a popular choice for web development with Python for many years. And for good reason: it leverages Python's ease of modularity to offer a very flexible solution for a variety of applications. 204. Ten Useful Git Log Tricks If you are using Git for a while you should have come across git log. As everyone knows, the git log is a simple command that helps us to view the changes or project history. 205. How to Remember What You Read with Readwise “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." —Carl Sagan 206. Engineer Onboarding: The Ugly Truth About Ramp-Up Time Though people often think about the time it takes for a new engineer to start delivering value, they rarely ask themselves how long it takes for them to be fully ramped-up. 207. Ten Pillars of Every Product Roadmap Your product roadmapping is a viable means to depict how this product is prone to develop, to adjust the stakeholders, and to procure a money related arrangement for this product. In any case, making a powerful guide is difficult, especially in agile development, where changes happen as often as possible and often out of the blue. In this way, there are things never to overlook while making your roadmap and sprint backlog. Remembering them will help you in making an intense agile product using scrum sprint backlog, the roadmap template and other powerful product management tools. 208. How to Use iCalendar for Semi-Predictable but Oddball Events Learn the high points of the iCalendar specification in an example-driven way in order to solve an interesting "recurring dates" problem: shift work. 209. Planning Poker: Agile Estimation And Planning Made Easy 210. 7 Tips that will Make You a Better Front End Developer Being a front end developer is a challenging job. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, there are always ways you can improve and raise the quality of your work. You need to be willing to put in the time and effort to learn and improve the skill. Begin to build good habits like proper planning and even learning when to say no. Here are seven tips that will make you a better front end developer. 211. The Importance of Code Quality, Explained One would expect that writing code which any programmer can read and understand would be an inherent skill of software developers. The fact is that only 20% of programmers have this ability. The code that you are writing must be understood not only by the machine but also by humans. In software development, quality should be everyone’s priority. Throughout the development process, the goal should be the delivery of good quality and working code. 212. Work Culture Toxicity In Tech Field I have a confession to make: I was on Twitter over the winter holidays when I should have been spending time with my family. What was the trending topic that caught my eye, you might ask? Last minute Christmas gift ideas? Pictures of pets in Santa hats? No, but I wish I could say it was one of those things. Instead, it was about work culture toxicity in tech. 213. How I Hacked My Brain To Trigger My Most Productive Coding Stint Ever My first project as dev at Hacker Noon was building and open sourcing a Chrome extension to block paywalled sites from search results. Here's what I learned. 214. How to Setup Webpack and Babel 7 for React All of us have used CRA(create-react-app) when we worked with React. Its an awesome tool. It gives us just to focus on React by letting take care of the configuration. Today we are going to learn how to setup Webpack and Babel for our React app. 215. How You Can Measure and Evaluate Performance of Software Engineers Engineers need feedback so they can improve skills and deepen knowledge. According to the editor of the Inc. Magazine, Jeff Hayden, traditional metrics can be misleading, as they do not always offer a clear result. Evaluating the work of staff used to be difficult, before Git Analytics tools, such as Waydev came up with a data-driven approach to engineering leadership to help you bring out the best in your engineers. 216. How To Make Correct Line Endings Ever had the problem where you submit a pull request and the diff is waaaaay bigger than it should be? The code looks identical but GitHub is telling you that it's all different! This is typically due to a difference in line endings. Unix systems (Linux and Mac) default to the LF (line feed) character for line breaks. Windows on the other hand is "special" and defaults to CR/LF (carriage return AND line feed). 217. My 12 Best Short Productivity Tips My best short productivity tips to achieve your goals and avoid procrastination 218. Plan Your Breaks Easily with Python Working from home is the new normal. In this blog post, we will learn how to build a break Scheduler using webbrowser with Python. 219. 16 Commands For Every Use Case to Set Up React Apps in Seconds ⚡🚀 In this article, I have handpicked 16 commands to set up your React apps in seconds. 220. 5 Tips to Be More Productive With Kubernetes I like to read about and see how people set up their environments and any tools, tips, and tricks they use to be more productive when working with Kubernetes and Istio. What follows is a collection of 5 tips and tools that I use daily, and I think it makes me more productive with Kubernetes and Istio. 221. Retired Software Richard Eng Discusses Rust, Golang, Smalltalk, China and More! Richard Eng 2020 Noonie Nominee for Blockchain from India has been nominated for a 2020#Noonie in the Future Heroes and Technology categories.. The Noonies are Hacker Noon’s way of getting to know — from a community perspective — what matters in tech today. So, we asked our Noonie Nominees to tell us. Here’s what Richard had to share. 222. The Frightening Truth Behind Mind Control and Social Media [Halloween Special] Let’s talk about the elephant in the room… 223. COVID Happened And I Decided to Stop Gaming And Start Coding It's no secret that today, during a global pandemic unlike anything in well over a hundred years, many people are stuck at home and unable to work by no choice of their own. This massive inconvenience of feeling trapped and bored out of our minds for months within our own dwellings is leaving a lot of us with fluxes of emotions like restlessness, hopelessness, depression, and many other not-so-good things. 😷 On a positive note though, this is a great time to adopt some new mental flexibility skills. 224. The Notion Template I Built for Optimal Personal Productivity As a product builder↗️, I build micro tools to solve my own problems. For example article tool, event app, meal box app, finance tracker, SaaS tracker, Notion portfolio, and habit tracker. 225. 3 Life Lessons From John Grisham’s Writing Habits Adopting a stoic mindset, employing consistent habits, learning to enjoy improving in our craft could bring meaningful insights into our efforts. 226. Working With Files In Python: Part 2 This is the second part of the series File management with python. We pick up from where we left last time Part 1, where we organized files according to the extension. So, let's get started. 227. 6 Driver-Navigator Patterns That Make Pair Programming More Productive Why Pair 228. Why Startups Give The-Go-Ahead For Remote Employees Remote work has become a common practice across the globe. Even 5 years ago, the scenario was entirely different. Organizations were worried that this trend could tarnish their employees’ performance. However, as technology evolved at a rapid pace, so did everything else revolving around it. Now people at the workplace communicate more over Slack or Zoom than they do in person. It’s not a trend anymore. It’s a necessity. 229. 7 Best Practices for Speeding Up Code Reviews Code reviews can be painful. But, there are plenty of ways we can make the process a better experience for both the code author and the code reviewer. 230. How to Stay Focused When Coding: 8 Productivity Tips Your well-being, routines, motivations and how effectively you plan, all play a role in your ability to remain focused while coding. 231. Hellfred or: How I Learned To Automate macOS and Become Hellishly Productive Hellfred apps are built on top of Hammerspoon so you can automate tasks and boost productivity by programming shortcuts into your daily workflows. 232. A Designer and a Nordic Guy Walk into a Hall The Divine Alchemy of Mastery in Digital Design 233. DIY Simple CEO Dalip Celbeqiri On Work and Motivation [Interview] I had the chance to talk to the Facebook Video Expert Dalip Celbeqiri who is the "go-to-person" when it comes to creative marketing. You can catch him behind the scenes, usually brainstorming and creating master plans for viral content. Dalip is one of the founders and CEO for the company Following Media Inc. His team runs the marketing for some of the biggest brands like “DIY Simple“. His team currently holds the 2nd place for “most views on a Facebook video” with more than 4.5 billion minutes viewed in a year; 100% organically. 234. DORA Explores DevOps: How can Engineers Measure Productivity? How can we use data to understand engineering bottlenecks? 235. A Productivity Hack that Changed my Life as a Developer and Solopreneur Do you find it hard to find motivation to finish your long-term goals or be self-motivated? This simple productivity hack will make 10x more productive! 236. Using Swagger And Excel Sheets for Validating REST APIs Swagger Files (aka OpenAPI Specification) is the most popular way for documenting API specifications and Excel sheet provides an easy and simple way of writing structured data. Anybody can write data in excel sheet irrespective of their programming skills. Introducing vREST NG (An enterprise ready application for Automated API Testing), which combines the power of both to make your API Testing experience more seamless. The approach is also known as Data Driven Testing. 237. The Joy of Using Single-Purpose Tech What is it about smartphones that make them the most useful technology ever created? 238. Things I Do Before I Start Programming I am a programmer. I solve problems from different domains. My clients are from finance, virology institutes, employee management, labor information management system, energy sector, or just some dude who wants to automate one specific task with software. 239. Learn How To Reset Team Productivity With These 5 Steps Productivity is a volatile thing in the office. It comes and goes. Just like there are ups and downs in life, some days are more rewarding than others at the workplace too. There will be times when your team would get in a slump and you will have to jumpstart them back to life. 240. I spent all summer building a Chrome extension - Here's What I Built This summer, I set off to build a productivity-based browser and ended up building a Chrome extension. Here’s how the process yielded a product that, while smaller than I initially wanted it to be, set me on the best path possible for future success: 241. Good Managers Vs. Great Managers One of the most important aspects of building great product organisations is to design a system where builders thrive. A group of well-organized, ambitious yet humble, smart folks is an unstoppable force. 242. Taking the Harder Path Is almost never the right answer when developing systems, at least the sort that I build. The easy path is almost always best and that feeling of “something being easy” is often a sure sign of being on the right track. 243. Introducing Github1s: A Browser-Based VSCode Project Viewer Github1s is a hot new open source project that allows you to browse Github repositories in a VSCode-like UI right in your browser. 244. You Don't Reach Your Business Goals Because You Don't Have Any You know the feeling, don’t you? You dearly wish to reach some business goal, complete an important project, learn a wanted skill. Finally, perhaps after reading some inspirational articles here on Medium, you decide to get up and go. You’re full of enthusiasm, determined to finally JUST DO IT, and all that stuff. 245. How to Take a Social Media Break: 4 Essential Tips and Tricks Take a social media break; it will result in great things. If you are ready to take the plunge, follow this 4 step plan to be successful at it. 246. 5 Copy and Pasting Tips For Every Developer to Know Work Smarter, Not Harder. 247. 4 Productivity Hacks That Yield Quick Results Having trouble hitting deadlines and staying focused? Well, have no fear! This article will introduce four productivity hacks that almost anyone can implement immediately and see fast results. 248. List of things to do in Quarantine time Hello readers, if you are reading this it meansyou want to do something productive in your quarantine time. 249. We Need to Abolish Pair Programming The actual intent of pair programming is based on an impossibility - that two people work together on the same computer. 250. The Parable of the Hole You are the regional supervisor of ABC Co. and part of your job is to inspect different job sites. 251. Get Rid Of Your Self-Imposed Restrictions: An App Review of Freedom Want to improve your focus so you can get more done? Stop relying on self-discipline and use the Freedom app instead. 252. Update Your Website via Spreadsheets Using Monday.com and Reshuffle Open Source Give non-technical people a structured way to make updates to a webpage (without fearing they’ll mess up) from within Monday by using Reshuffle Open Source 253. Breaking Down 3 API Security Breaches The following three API security breaches provide helpful lessons for improving security today. 254. A Call To Action: Let's Not Waste The Opportunity Coronavirus Offers Us Half of the world is in quarantine due to the corona-virus outbreak, and most of the people have no clue how to use this time for developing new skills. 255. 50 Shades of Lead Time: Measuring Each Part of the Development Process I have read multiple definitions for Lead Time and Cycle Time over the last years. Recently, I shared why I prefer using the first over the later. 256. Hack Your Technical Debt: The 1% Better Every Day Challenge It's easy for technical debt to grow in our codebase. Commit to spending 20 minutes a day for 30 days to tackling technical debt and get 1% better every day. 257. How to Download a File Using cURL With Examples If you have ever used cURL to retrieve the output of a file, believe me, saving that output to a file only takes a few more characters. 258. Invert, Always Invert: Why a Problem Reversed is a Problem Solved "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there." - Charlie Munger 259. Five Things I Would Have Done Differently I don’t have many regrets in my professional career. In fact, I have none. Regretting is useless and a waste of time. 260. 11 Techniques and 5 Tools to Work Toward Limitless Team Productivity Team productivity drives success to companies in all industries. The role of the team leader is to help the team achieve better results without a professional burning-out. How do you increase team productivity and keep a healthy atmosphere in the office? 261. Leadership: A Blessing Or A Curse? You are a leader; therefore, you must understand: if your judgment is listened to and you, as an influencer, can impact the collective mood. 262. How to Become a Team of Elite Developers The Accelerate State of DevOps report ranks performance into Low, Medium, High and Elite. 263. How to Create a Conditional Workflow With Advanced GitHub Actions How can I create one GitHub workflow which uses different secrets based on a triggered branch? The conditional workflow will solve this problem. 264. Dependency Injection to Make Your Code Testable [A How-To Guide] Have you ever wanted to write unit tests for your code, but you’ve found that it’s difficult to do so? Often this is the result of not writing code with testing in mind. An easy way to solve this is through utilizing test-driven development, a development process in which you write your tests before your app code. 265. Laravel Background Processes Analytics with Inspector In this article I would show you how to turn on analytics in the dark side of your application: "background Jobs and scheduled Artisan commands execution". 266. Turn Your IDE Into a Powerhouse for Laravel Development With These Plugins for PhpStorm I will cover plugins that I use and recommend for your PhpStorm installation. 267. 7 Tips to Succeed in a Company as a Newbie What can you do to stand out as a new employee in an organization. 268. An Introduction to MaaS; Marketplace As a Service 269. What Is EditorConfig And Why You Should Use It Editor Config is an INI format based configuration system that let you establish project level coding standard; It allows configuring: indentation style, indentation size, line width and more. It helps in reducing the effort required to bring each team member to the consistent coding standards by automatically importing and applying the configuration to IDE. 270. 8 Gadgets Every Start-up Must Have The start-up companies of the present time seem to have some great ideas to share in a larger platform. But the main problem in doing this is the lack of modern gadgets and technologies and being a start-up company, it’s not abnormal. 271. The Impostor Syndrome Among Us Impostor Syndrome is one of the most popular workplace epidemics in the world. It affects people in every profession, irrespective of years of experience. 272. Easily Formatting Markdown Files in VS Code This VS Code extension helps you when writing markdown to format your text, create lists, and create and modify tables with ease. 273. Tips for Developers to Survive API-First The world of API-First has swept developer marketing by storm. Learn some tips to get a grip on this trend and avoid being blindsided! 274. A Few Reasons Why Your Software Buddy System isn't Working Mentorship requires at least 2 people. However, anyone who has ever queried information about software developer onboarding, could notice right away a strong focus on the onboardee. Most onboarding approaches are centered on guiding new hires through their first days, tasks or overcoming the hurdles of getting started. But this approach rarely highlights the troubles and challenges of the mentors*. We frequently hear about the “Sink or Swim” approach by which new engineers are “thrown into the deep end” with hands-on tasks on their first day in. The truth is, mentors are also treated this way, although unintentionally and with no buoy waiting for them. 275. How to Merge PDFs Without Adobe Acrobat For a task or assignment, different members are responsible for different parts. So, it's very common that the team must conclude the respective results at last. If their results are in the PDF formats, they must merge the PDFs to reach the final result. There are still many other occasions that we need to merge PDF files. 276. Forget the ‘5 ways to be a better manager’… It’s ok, we all do it… 277. Increasing Your Productivity With Telegram and Node.js Some time ago I searched for an easy way to establish a communication channel between a mobile device and a Node.js webserver. My goal was to exchange messages over this channel and receive information about the weather, public transportation and more. For example I send the message /train and receive a response with realtime details about train departure times of preconfigured routes. So the Node.js server receives the incoming message, processes it and sends a response back to the client. 278. Will it Rain Today? Forecast Weather using Python In this blog post, we will learn how to forecast weather details. We will see the implementation in Python with hardly a few lines of code. 279. Data-Driven Approach for Software Engineering: How to Avoid Common Problems In today’s digital world, data is constantly being generated, evaluated, and updated. It also plays an important role in the work of software engineers by providing accurate, actionable feedback that helps engineers understand where and how to make improvements to a product or process. 280. 7 Ways to Maintain and Write Better Code Writing and maintaining code is necessary because you want to make it easily understandable for people. So here are some of my tips on how you can write better code and maintain it. 281. 5 Steps in Programming to Keep You From Getting Stuck Getting stuck in a programming problem is a very common thing. 282. You Can Do More With Rails Console by Configuring ~/.irbrc 🎉 It´s better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive. — Steve McConnell 283. To Be a More Successful Developer, Give Up These 13 Things There is one important prerequisite to becoming better at anything: Concentrate on the things that matter, and give up what doesn’t. Developing is no exception. It is a process that can become problematic if you decide to pursue perfection, focusing on aspects that are complex but inessential. 284. Reset, Revert and Checkout in Git Git toolbox provides multiple unique tools for fixing up mistakes during your development. Commands such as , , and allow you to undo erroneous changes in your repository. git reset git checkout git revert 285. 10 Ways to Cope with Remote Work to Make Working From Home Enjoyable In this post, you’ll find 10 tech tips and hacks to make remote working productive and fun. 286. 13 Tools To Try On Your Next Javascript Based Project On every project, there are always tools that can help your team align, standardise, and increase productivity and quality of code through their use. 287. How Successful Managers Delegate Work Effectively If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, right? The perfectionist in you likes to be in control and is good at finding excuses - “Outcome won’t be as good.” “It will take me longer to assign and explain than to do it myself.” “I don’t have anyone with the right skills.” “No one in the team wants to do it anyway.” 288. What Data Science Has Taught Me I always tell people that data is not the new oil, instead, it is the new time machine. 289. Automatic Window Resizing in Vim A common workflow in vim is to use multiple windows to view and edit various files at the same time. Once opened though, the size of each window often remains unchanged unless explicitly resized. 290. How to Become a Successful Web Developer in 2021 Alright then, so you have decided your path. You want to become a web developer this year. 291. How To Hack Your Brain To Get Motivated, Even When You’re Bored On boredom, laziness, and snickers. On how to hack your brain, and how to deal with the mystery that is the bored, unproductive brain, with a well-tried method. 292. 4 Calendar Techniques To Boost Your Productivity Here are four techniques that can help your reclaim your control over your time: Time Blocking, Color-Coding, Batching, and Calendar Audits. 293. Top 10 Productivity Apps to Make 2020 Your Most Productive Year Yet Welcome to Part 2 of the Tech Productivity Series 294. Mind Mapping, Creative Thinking, And The Augmented Reality (AR) Technologies Driving Them Scientists have dedicated centuries to studying our brain, trying to understand how this super-powerful computer is wired, how it comprehends the world, testing the limits of its capabilities. 295. 8 Habits of Highly Productive People The habits of highly productive people make them accomplish a lot. It's not magic, and you can improve your mentality by following these 8 habits. 296. Apply These 3 Secret Techniques To Be Amazing At Everything Photo by Guillaume de Germain, Unsplash 297. Product Manager Tips from 2020 for a Better 2021 “Difficulty is what wakes up the genius” has become my mantra of 2020 (thanks Nassim Taleb). If that's true then what follows should be pure gold: a collection of my best ideas for a challenging year. 298. Forget What You See on TV: Good Ideas Don’t Come From Brainstorming The reality of brainstorming sessions is far from the idealized scenes made to entertain us. 299. From Big Data to Personal Lives: This Is How AI-Powered Tools Will Help Today’s Professionals “AI is everywhere around us. We are living with it every day, and we are loving it.” 300. 5 Slack Apps for Startups to Save Time Spent on Repetitive Work I remember when Slack first came out. Me and my team of engineers were frustrated that the higher-ups were making us migrate away from IRC. Fast forward to 2020 and now I'm a member of 15 different workspaces. 301. Laravel Real-Time Controllers Monitoring with Inspector-Laravel Package Hi, I'm Valerio, software engineer from Italy and CTO at Inspector. 302. How to Start an Attention Diet: The Mindful Elimination of Distractions Attention diets are a new way of managing the stimulus we receive throughout the day. By controlling what we focus on, we can improve our mental health. 303. Here's How I Built a Quiz App for Remote Team Building [A Step by Step Guide] The COVID-19 pandemic and statewide stay-at-home order have caused many companies, including mine, to close their offices, restrict travel, and require all employees to work remotely. 304. 7 Slack Hacks You Need to Know for Better Work Feel like your slackin' in the Slack skills department? These Slack hacks and tips will help you improve the way you work. 305. Essential Productivity Tips Every Software Developer Should Know Here are the game changing productivity hacks, tools, and tips that have helped me most as a software developer. 306. Improving the Working Environment for Developers - In 3 Stages Only … and incidentally establishing DevOps. 307. 10 Features Where Coda Is Better Than Notion Notion vs. Coda: a look at 10 features in Coda that are better than Notion from the perspective of a Coda employee. This article has been updated for 2022. 308. How to Achieve Hard Things following Brandon Sanderson's Advice Brandon Sanderson, a bestselling fantasy author, presents a framework to achieve hard things, based on his experience. 309. Keeping Our Ducks Aligned With Slack A lot of remote teams start using Slack as a watering hole for getting everyone together to discuss what's going on and what'll happen next. Having all of these discussions happening in the #general channel is way too noisy. So teams start creating a bunch of random channels devoted to a specific purpose. Here are some of the channels we have at Hacker Noon. 310. The Illusion of Productivity with Expensive Gadgets The curse of being a student is having a huge amount of educational fees unless you are sponsored by someone. Especially when you are having higher expenses on your educational essentials, you run short on money to manage your desk setup like the one you’ve seen on Youtube. But wait, it is really necessary to have a perfect setup? 311. How I Saved 120 hours And $600 on Xero With Python Automation And Zapier 312. Wax On, Wax Off: How Going Remote Could be The BEST Thing That Ever Happened to Your Team As every child of the ‘80’s knows – the most effective way to become a karate expert is not through years of dedicated training, but rather by completing a sequence of seemingly tedious chores for an elderly Japanese neighbor. Thanks to the miracle of muscle memory, before you know it, you’ll have won the all-valley karate tournament. (Actually, now I think about it, this might have been one of the first, and most effective “hacks” I was ever exposed to). 313. 6 GitHub Repositories For Instant Knowledge Boost Github is not only a place for storing our code and sharing libraries with other developers. Thanks to powerful Markdown syntax it’s possible to create sort of wiki pages. There are thousands of great resources in the Github - some of them are so big that recommending them is pointless. 314. Programmer’s Pyramid: Take Your Programming To The Next Level Build a solid foundation of programming knowledge, develop core skills, and obtain an effective learning system with Programmer’s Pyramid. 315. Covid-19: What Can Product Managers Do? This blog post should not be considered authoritative in any way. It simply an imperfect attempt to highlight some guiding principles. I am convinced these guiding principles could be useful for you, your dear-ones and your team. 316. Hacking Your Momentum [Infographic] Once you get going it’s easy to keep going. But getting started is another challenge. Taking that first step can seem insurmountable, especially now because we’re in the midst of a serious pandemic. Lots of people were thrown off their momentum by the pandemic, and it’s going to take a lot of effort to get going again. 317. Becoming a Manager of Engineers: How to Focus on Visibility and Predictability Becoming a manager is usually one of the biggest challenges of an engineer’s career. We are usually used to algorithms and state machines, which are predictable and have specific outputs depending on the input. 318. Remote Work: Anti-Patterns For Everyday Use 🚫 As an engineer, I was fascinated when I was first introduced to design patterns but I was even more intrigued when I read about anti-patterns. Put simply, design patterns are good practices to solve common problems while anti-patterns are the exact opposite and undesirable. For example, it is good practice to break classes and functions into smaller units with clearly-defined and singular responsibility. As opposed to this is the anti-pattern where a single class has lots of dependencies, responsibilities and grows beyond all logic to become the class that does everything - God Class. Anti-patterns provide a healthy dose of self-criticism and help detect unproductive behaviour or processes. This got me thinking about a similar approach for remote work - finding patterns that are counter-productive. Today's discussion is about 10 such remote work anti-patterns. Do you think I missed some obvious pattern? Join in the discussion here and add your thoughts! Remote is your standard work-life on video The biggest mistake would be to assume that working remotely is going to be the same as in-office except for the cameras. It is important to understand that it requires conscious efforts on rethinking communication & documentation, building trust & social interaction among other things when building a distributed team. 2. The shift to remote is a 0 to 1 switch Buffer came up with 'The Remote Working Scale' which categorises the way a company could approach remote working. So, the shift to remote is ideally not a 0 to 1 switch and has many intermediate levels that could be implemented. The important point, however, is to build a truly remote-first culture rather than just being remote-friendly even at the intermediate levels. We have detailed the difference between being remote-first and remote-friendly in our guide. 319. 15 Most Useful Tools for Software Devs in 2021 I would like to tell you about some tools and software that I use on a daily basis. This article will introduce the top 15 most useful tools for software devs. 320. 🏅year in Review: Tools That Helped my Productivity as a Software Engineer As a software engineer, you have to find the perfect mix of tools and templates that can help make you more efficient in your day-to-day tasks. 321. To Log Or Not To Log, Is The (Eternal) Question An alternative logging strategy to make loggers your friends, not enemies 322. 7 Basic Rules to Make Developer`s Life Better As people, we have a superpower; it is the power of perception. As the famous saying goes, life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it. 323. Depop Bot - The Ultimate Guide (2020) Introduction 324. Happy Hackathoning: How To Get The Most Out of Hackathons With the HarperDB + Hashnode Hackathon upon us this month, I thought it would be a good time to share some tips on getting the most out of your hackathon participation. There are tons of great articles and resources out there of folks sharing their experiences and what they might do differently next time, so I’ll consolidate some of the best tips and open it up to the community to share your insights! 325. 5 Productivity Hacks for Solo Founders Let's be honest, starting a business can be challenging, but for many people (like me) - it's a lifelong dream. Although many people feel more comfortable starting a business with a co-founder - it's not always the best decision. 326. Skyeng’s In-house Services: Doing More With Less How We Accomplish More While Working Less 327. How AI Empower Sustainable Growth of the Organisations The propagation of artificial intelligence (AI) is making a significant impact on society, changing the way how we work, live, and communicate. AI today is allowing the world to diagnose diseases and develop clinical pathways. It is also being used to match individuals’ skill sets with job openings and create smart traffic that leads to the reduction of pollution. There are many examples of applying AI technologies in the sustainable growth of the planet and organisations. 328. How to Master Your Work From Home Routine The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted daily routines around the world, and many find themselves working from home for the unforeseeable future. 329. How I screwed up myself building my dream startup I was looking at the doctor’s face, my heart beating super fast, scared of what will come out of his mouth: 330. All the Tools You Need to Emulate the Experience of Being in a Physical Office On managing remote teams and creating an atmosphere similar to your office: Recently, I did a webinar with TIE and fellow women founders on Managing remote teams. A lot of you asked for the extensive list of tools that I mentioned in the webinar. So, here it is! 331. Effective Coding Workflow: My VS Code Setup There are a lot of Code Editors, some are free and some are paid. Among all of them my favorite Code Editor is Visual Studio Code. It's free and has amazing features. I'm using it from the beginning of my web development journey. 332. Making Product Roadmaps Like You Mean It The state of affairs 333. What is the Best Way to Measure Developer Productivity in 2022? DORA Metrics are a great start, however Nicole Forsgren from Github recognises the need for Collaboration and Wellbeing to become part of developer performance. 334. Improving Focus and Productivity Using the Pomodoro Technique Have you ever gotten to the end of your day and while you've completed tasks, you don't feel you accomplished what you set out to do? Are you're working hard at a list of tasks that you're trying to finish but you're not able to give 100%? Do you have no idea where time has gone and you have nothing to showcase your work? Do you procrastinate? Do you lose time in your day scrolling social media feeds, your inbox or YouTube? There may be a solution that could help you. The Pomodoro Technique and it could transform your life. 335. An Engineer's Guide to TODOs: How to Get Things Done A lack of focus, lack of visibility into our codebase problems, and context switching decrease developer productivity. Here are the best ways and tools that'll help you get things done. 336. The Only Productivity Method You'll Ever Need Is 'Getting Things Done' Over the years I’ve tried different methods or adapted existing ones to make the most of my working time, but each new technique reminds me of the GTD method. 337. The Rational Software Engineer: A Guide to Work Time Organization As a software engineer, I often try to understand how to optimize my productivity: I want to get more work done, without having to do more work. 338. Practice Coding Like An Expert With The Help Of These 5 Tips Keep things interesting and practice coding through different methods such as tutorials, quizzes or developing your own projects. 339. Become More Productive As A Developer With These Amazing VS Code Extensions How can developers be extra productive? You’re a developer or you manage a team of developers, higher productivity can get you extra things done through ... 340. AI and Chill: 7 Growth Marketing Tools to Streamline Your Workflow 7 powerful AI tools that can help you streamline your workflow and achieve better results with less effort. 341. 14 Small Productivity Principles You Can Start Practicing Today Early in my career, I placed a lot of focus on doing more in less time. I thought I was being productive. The reality was I was simply scrambling from one task to the next without clarity on whether my work was effective or how I could do better. I focused on the end goal, the result I wanted to achieve without really caring about the process to get there. 342. Top 24 ES6 Code Snippets for JavaScript Problems Here I have hand-picked some of the most useful code snippets from 30 seconds of code. It’s an awesome resource, go ahead and show it some love. 343. Ultimate Resources List for Remote Workers Working remotely has been a trending topic for the last couple of years. But now, more than ever, working remotely has become almost a standard in the tech industry. Have you ever wondered why? If you think about it, working remotely saves money for both, the employer and the employee. 344. The Simplest Way to Set Goals You Actually Achieve Inspired by James Clear’s Goal Setting Method, Motion helps you set better goals using 4 main strategies. 345. Explaining Important Skills For Hero Developers Using Lego Bricks Programming is like building Lego bricks. Any developer can pick a brand new Lego set and build it following the instructions. This is very easy. Think of it as coding school assignments or entry level tutorials. 346. My Experience as A Team Lead For Unity3D Gamedev Team Recently I became the team lead in the company I am working for and here I want to share a few lessons that I already managed to learn. 347. An AI-Based Code Completion System For All Languages Deep learning at the rescue. In this article, I'll talk about TabNine, an AI Code Completion system for all languages, with a focus on JavaScript. 348. Chatbot Examples - Which Are the Best Chatbots on the Web? Even if you don’t have a chatbox on your website, you have definitely encountered one before. Facebook, eBay, Domino’s Pizza, and Universal Studios are some of the big names that have their own chatbots. 349. Managing Remote Engineering Teams: How, Why, When Disconnect and poor communication are key challenges of managing a remote or hybrid development team. As a hybrid team, we share tips on effective management. 350. Ergonomic Chairs: Hello Productivity, Bye-Bye Back Aches Ergonomic chairs improve productivity in workspaces, whether it's home workspace or office workspace. Invest in an ergonomic chair now. 351. Destination Heroku: Changing My Tech Stack In the "Moving Away From AWS and Onto Heroku" article, I provided an introduction of the application I wanted to migrate from Amazon's popular AWS solution to Heroku. While AWS is certainly meeting the needs of my customer (my mother-in-law), I am hoping for a solution that allows my limited time to be focused on providing business solutions instead of getting up to speed with DevOps processes. 352. Using tmux to Improve Your Terminal Experience Learn how to be more productive and switch faster between windows and projects with Zsh, Tmux and Dracula Theme. 353. How I Launch A Postwoman v1.0 👽: Free, Fast & Beautiful Alternative To Postman 🎉 So, here’s how Postwoman happened. 354. Six Basic Tips To Reduce Software Development Costs Reducing operational costs is always a goal for every business, no matter the industry that they might work in. For many companies, the development and ongoing maintenance of essential software that keeps their business operational is one of the most significant expenses that they face. 355. One Small Step for You, One Big Step for Your IT Career We all sometimes try taking on more significant tasks than we can deliver on—it stems directly from our human inability to evaluate complex tasks correctly. 356. The Art of Mastering Atomic Habits If you want to change your life, you need to start with your habits. Atomic habits are the building blocks that make up our lives. 357. Choosing The Optimal Development Methodology Is Scrum as universal as it seems to be? 358. Impact of Compensation Management Software on Employees' Performance Employees are considered to be one of the most important assets of the company and it is a well-known fact that a company’s success rate depends on its employees’ performance to a great extent. In today’s competitive market scenario, compensation management acts as the driving factor for yielding optimum performance. 359. The Future of Committing Reflections to Your Machine The Need for Reflective Computing 360. Emancipation Starts in the Kitchen What is the link between industrial/organizational psychology and modern kitchen layouts? It all started with Lillian Gilbreth. 361. Microservice Observability Patterns [Part 1] Logging is one of the most important parts of software systems. Whether you have just started working on a new piece of software, or your system is running in a large scale production environment, you’ll always find yourself seeking help from log files. Logs are the first thing people look for when something goes wrong, or something doesn’t work as expected. 362. Laravel Real-Time Monitoring Using Inspector Hi, I'm Valerio, software engineer from Italy. 363. 10 Business Models, 10 Companies, 10 New Ways of Working In A Pandemic Covid-19 has revealed and keeps revealing holes in the economic and healthcare infrastructures worldwide as it spread and invades countries mercilessly. The gap between the rich and poor has become more obvious, especially in well-developed countries. The number of job losses in two weeks exceeded 10 million in the U.S. alone. 364. What is a Developer's Worst Enemy? We developers get stuck working hard for a long period on multiple projects, that seems impossible to complete. 365. 5 Best Plugins For Dev Teams Looking to Level Up Productivity 🔥🔥🔥 Best VS Code Plugins and JetBrains extensions for dev team. Boost developer productivity with GitLive, Tabnine, Stepsize, EditorConfig and Better Comments. 366. The Ultimate Guide to One-On-One Meetings for Managers All managers struggle with the fine balance between doing work that achieves short term goals vs investing time in activities with long term benefits. 367. 5 Most Effective Productivity Tools If You’re In Tech Or Software Engineering Everyone wants to be more productive without burning out. So, how do you get more done without working more hours? And how do you help the rest of your team improve without taking on the role of taskmaster? The answer: use effective tools. 368. 10 Tips to Grow Your Local YouTube Channel Check Out What Can Make Your Content to Have a Wider Reach.. 369. How to Hack Your Team: Top 5 Tools For Team Management Automation in 2021 Wondering how to increase your remote team's productivity? These tools will help. 370. Why is Software Development So Hard? Complicated code bases. Bare-bones specifications. Tight deadlines. If these sound familiar, you’re not alone. Software development is a difficult field to work in, despite being one of the fastest growing in the United States. Developers burn out quickly and often. In fact, one survey shows burnout rates of nearly 60% among tech workers. 371. The Modern Creative Problem - Does Too Much Choice Kill Your Creativity? The Modern Creative Problem — Does Too Much Choice Kill Your Creativity? 372. How To Set and Track KPI Targets A Key Performance Indicator, also known as KPI, is a value that can be estimated or measured, which shows the effectiveness of your business in meeting and exceeding its key objectives. 373. What Traits Distinguish An Awesome Programmer What distinguishes great programmers from good ones? 374. How to Break Bad News in the Workplace Seven steps for planning, approaching and delivering bad news in the workplace 375. The Meticulous Approach to Coding The article covers the topic of coding process structure. It aims at increasing product quality and providing visibility to stakeholders. 376. How I Build Image Processing Pipeline This is a post that I have been putting off for a while, but I think the time has come to share this with the community. Two years ago I sat down to start a new project, an experiment involving image downscaling and Node.js, and since then it has become my primary open-source project. 377. Rediscovering Focus: How I Did It After years of distractions and poor decision making. I rediscovered the art of focus. I realized that if I did not plant my butt in the chair, I would fall behind in my ambitions. Since October of last year, I have been taking serious action to improve my attention span and my ability to do deep work. 378. A GitHub vs Git Functionality Comparison Here you will find out the main differences between Git and Github by diving deep into their functionality and use. 379. Chance Favors the Prepared Mind: Luck vs Merit in Product Management Is 10x product success merely arbitrary luck or based on merit? It’s a question that can torture even the most rational-minded product managers. But which should you focus on when victory is on the line? 380. Master The Art Of Planning Poker On Heroku And Salesforce With These Tips One may not expect to use Salesforce for Planning Poker sessions, but see how Aditya Naag's planning-poker-salesforce repository can make this happen quite easily. 381. I Asked 100 People What They Learned From Lockdown: Here's What They Said I asked 100 people on reddit what fundamental lessons they learned as a result of quarantine, hopefully you can get some insight on how other people have been 382. Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing and Tips on How to Implement it The manufacturing sector faces numerous challenges, including difficulties in forecasting demands, skilled worker shortage, and keeping the equipment up and running. 383. The WFH Slump: 10 Ways To Be More Productive While Working From Home With 56% of workers only working remotely for the last year, working from home is still something most of us are adjusting to. 384. Introducing Notion to Entrepreneurs, Founders, and Startup Executives This long-form article is an informal introduction to Notion for entrepreneurs, founders and startup executives. It covers the basics and explains what makes this company truly special. It’s a 17 minute read full of film and pop culture references because why not. Also, this is my first blog post on the internet. 385. Working from Home During the COVID-19 Outbreak: Challenges and Tips To Help Remote work and the associated social distancing is one of the ways to halt the outbreak of coronavirus - an enormous challenge facing the entire world in 2020. While more and more companies urge their employees to shift to working from home, and people eagerly accept the change to avoid public spaces, there are a wealth of concerns regarding what it will all be like: 386. Mindful Work: Capturing, Prioritizing and Working on Tasks Effectively We owe it to ourselves to try to find a productivity approach that works for us. 387. 5 Reasons to Deploy Six Sigma for Startups in 2021 All large organizations be it multinational corporations, big corporate houses, or global production units are applying Six Sigma techniques to better their business processes, nowadays. However, a huge misconception that ‘Six Sigma methodology doesn’t work for startups’ spins around it. Well, the universal nature of Six Sigma techniques and their effectiveness in process optimization and quality control make them an indispensable tool for organizations of all sizes. 388. Top Reasons Why You Should Make Reading a Habit For every person barring a few fictional ones, life is only experienced once. 389. 10 Most Useful Code Editors Hotkeys Do you know what percentage of people do not use Ctrl+F when searching text on pages? 390. 10 Best VS Code Extensions to Improve Your Productivity I asked developers in my team what VS Code extensions they use to boost their productivity, and here’s what they said. 391. You Don't Know What You're Spending Your Time On Unless You Start Tracking It Think you know how you’re spending time? I’m not sure. Do you often panic if you haven’t finished a task on time or just don’t have enough energy left? 392. "Marie Kondo" your Startup Ask yourself if it sparks revenue 393. 8 Lessons Product Managers Need to Learn From Clayton Christensen Clayton Christensen is one of the greatest business minds of our time. His recent passing caused me to reflect on all I learned from him. His life was dedicated to his family, his faith, and the theories he taught. He personified servant leadership. 394. Risk Aversion Kills Startups One of the most important things you can do as a startup, and in life, is be smart about how you choose to invest your time and energy. Every meeting you schedule, feature you decide to build, or bug you decide to fix is ultimately a bet. You are betting that your actions will ultimately result in generating or capturing more value as a company. 395. Solving for the Impersonality of the Calendly Booking Page It’s obvious that Calendly is one of the most convenient calendar scheduling tools on the market. It’s a convenient virtual assistant that breezes through technical aspects of scheduling. With time zones, availability preferences, and automated links immediately generated, it’s saved people a lot of time (and sanity). 396. How I made $100k in Revenue Selling Tutorials on Google Sheets Celebrating $100,000 revenue selling Google Sheet Tutorials and Google Sheets. Yep, I generated $100k in revenue In 24 months selling Google Sheets. 397. 5 Incredibly Simple Yet Useful Tips To Push Your Motivation Flywheel How can I make motivation part of my life to do things that will help me achieve my goals in the long run? For me, motivation was a state of mind. Some days I was all excited and motivated to get to my toughest goals and important tasks that I had avoided in the past. Then there were other times I felt lost, unsure of how to make even tiny progress on things I got to do. 398. How to Automate Content Cross-Posting Process with n8n ✍️ Blogging isn’t just about writing quality content, but also ensuring that it reaches as many members of your audience as possible. This means that bloggers have to post an article multiple times on different platforms. This often entails ensuring that the formatting and layouts are consistent across platforms, which tends to be a time consuming (and exhausting) ordeal. 399. Doers Vs No Doers: An Analytical Approach To start with, this is a tricky topic, where I might find people in conflict with my perception but after all when isn’t conflict a promising act. Conflict by its meaning is a disagreement where one holds an entirely opposite perspective and surely does one defend it as if it was their very own life at stake. I think that is a beauty of it, perhaps lasting for a long time that is unexpected or usual. I would put it as my experience to suggest that I have seen people get excited and enthusiastic about doing something. It can be an idea or a project or anything that they either want to achieve in life or a common goal to which one puts an effort. 400. 50+ Shortcut Links for Developers Productivity A designer's work process is loaded with expected digressions, interferences and setting switches. Yet, the idea of programming makes getting to and keeping up continuous stream states basic. Fortunately, a ton advanced instruments can assist designers with doing that, attempting to secure their space for profound thought and make more useful work processes. Here's our pick of the best usefulness devices for engineers starting at 2021. 401. Top Seven Chrome Extensions for Product Managers Top Chrome extensions for Product Managers – 2021 402. Best Working Environments for Devs: A Hierarchy of Needs Developing and coding are incredibly tough. There are hundreds upon thousands of lines of code, and a single error can leave you trawling to find what exactly went wrong and why. 403. A-Z Of DevOps: Managing Multiple Environments With The Help Of These Tools In most DevOps settings you’ll find that there are multiple environments in the pipeline. You might have conditions that change the environment based on which branch was merged or when a branch is tagged for release. There are a number of reasons you want to have more than just a production environment, the biggest reason being testing. 404. 5 Actions of Protest Against the Monetization of Your Attention Hello, you. You, who are designing, coding, marketing, selling, or simply using the technology that will shape our collective future. To what extent do you realize that everything that you and I do, and every bit of technology you and I envision, create, sell, or simply use — has an impact on our lives? 405. 78 Experts Share Their Remote Working Tips Productivity is a concern for modern management. As offices have seen productivity benefits of traditional, standardized and documented practices, these companies have also imposed key performance indicators to better gauge employee production and productivity. At the same time, the people themselves, from the employees up to the owners realize that they need to work better, as well as improve their working environment. 406. 6 Incredible Productivity Tools for Programmers Productivity is key when it comes to getting work done with a smile. Burndowns are natural, here is how to minimize them and keep hustling. 407. 3 Things Great Engineering Managers Do As all Spider-Man comic book fans know, with great power comes great responsibility, and being a great manager isn't just about being good at telling people what to do. It turns out that effective engineering managers aren't mind-bending wizards — they're just good at a few things. Here's a few of them: 408. Top 5 Tips for Becoming a Git Expert Becoming a Git power user is on the bucket list of every developer. With our 5 Git tips you will level up your workflow and get one step closer to Git mastery! 409. Price Tracker Application with Django: Crawling Discounts From Ebay What's up Hackers! 410. What is Hybrid Work and Why is it the New Norm? The hybrid work model is appearing more and more often in companies' return-to-office plan. What is it and how do you prepare your team for this new norm? 411. 8 Great Chrome Extensions for Designers and Creatives These extensions will be the best assistance to the designers for creating powerful designs and also, to increase productivity. Good digital branding is responsible for the growth of a company. Thus, the creation of amazing designs should never cease. 412. Why I Continue To Choose Delphi I started with Delphi in 1997. It had all the productivity of Visual Basic, with the power of Visual C++. I knew I had the only language I would ever need. 413. How to Build a Serverless Full-stack Application Using Git, Google Drive, and Public CI/CD Runners? Learn to build a serverless full-stack application with backend workers and database only using git, google drive, and public CI/CD runners. 414. 5 Important Takeaways From 9 Remote Work Productivity Studies For the vast majority of people in tech, one of the side effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the switch to working remotely. If Twitter is anything to go by, for some, this may become a long-term reality, too. 415. Top 16 Tips to Quickly Boost Your Productivity in 2021 These simple, easy-to-follow productivity tips will improve your output dramatically. 416. 6 Productivity Practices for New (and Old) Developers Humans are complex creatures, with a wide variety of motivations for getting work done. Our motivation as developers is not purely extrinsic, or financial—sometimes it's for the joy of delivering code. 417. The “Brain Drain” Hypothesis Explains That Smartphones Distract Us, Even When Not In Use The mere presence of your phone or apps like Gmail, Slack, and iMessage can decrease your ability to focus even when they don't actually distract you. 418. 5 Tools To Level Up Your Efficiency On Windows 10 Microsoft has done great efforts to improve the user experience and build an active ecosystem for developers. Moreover, Microsoft has completely embraced open source in recent years, there are so many awesome open-source projects developed by Microsoft. 419. Overthinking: Causes, Impact, Strategies for Taking Action I thought I was pretty good and smart at making decisions from routine tasks with little cognitive load like what to eat for lunch, what dress to wear to the office, how to avoid traffic on the way to work to the more mentally demanding activities like putting together a hiring plan, defining org structure and thinking about the future strategy of my organisation. 420. How To Improve Your Concentration and Focus The World is full of distractions, the more you try to ignore a string of distractions the more you find yourself tangled in those strings of distraction. We are never taught how to manage our time nor our finance. It is the thing that we have to manage or learn on our own. The truth is people actually never learn to manage their time. They just do things whatever they have or according to their priorities. But within these priorities, people tend to get lost in their thoughts, urges, or fictional societies. In between these priorities, it’s really complicated to stay focused and do things. We easily get lost and get distracted. Staying focused for a longer time is tough for your brain. Especially when you are doing intensive work or in short the thing that releases a few dopamines. 421. Best Advice On DDD For Data-Focused Devs The domain design approach to software development contributes to solving a specific domain model. It revolves around the business model, linking execution to key business principles. 422. The Placeholder Tools that Boost Productivity for Developers and Designers 423. Important Skills For Project Managers Project management is a complex field in software development. Sometimes you, as a project manager, feel like they are responsible for everything. Since your performance directly affects the success rate of the entire project. Project managers not only manage tasks but, most importantly, thoroughly guide the team toward the project goals. Being a great project manager requires interdisciplinary approaches and the ability to master both hard and soft skills. Let’s have a closer look at three essential competencies for the project manager to be successful. 424. Remote Team Motivation Ideas for COVID-19: One Ritual to Rule them All When companies went remote overnight, most thought it would last a month or two, but it has become clear by now that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed not only how we live our everyday lives but how we do our jobs. 425. Reduce Context Switching with these 7 VS Code Extensions Extensions that help you stay in the editor reduce context switching and help you reach the state of flow. 426. 10 Ways To Get Out Of Your Own Way And Start That Side Project Let's use these times to productively START working on our side projects. 427. Google Wave’s Misfire Is A Lesson for Today's Real-Time Collaboration Tools When Google Wave previewed at the 2009 I/O conference, it was a tool like no other. Not only was it the first unified workspace and collaboration platform before the remote-work boom happened, but it also tried to solve many of the same problems we’re facing today. 428. How to Create a Google Chrome Extension: Image Grabber Create Google Chrome extension from scratch 429. How To Release Your Software Without Losing Your Hair: Feature Flags Technique Anyone who has ever released software to customers before I’m sure has suffered from the stress and anxiety it can cause when you’re hoping and praying everything will work just as it did during testing once it’s in production. 430. 15 Apps that Can Make You Productive Here, 15 amazing apps have been listed for increasing our productivity. 431. How to Teach Yourself to Code? Sleep Less, Learn More This post will walk you through how to be productive and improve your skillset 432. How To Remember What You Read: A Review of Readwise A review of Readwise and how it helped me to remember effectively the books I’ve read. 433. Managing Microservices with Service Mesh: A Control Plane for your Application Applications built on monolithic/ 3-tier/ n-tier architecture often fail to meet the market demands in terms of scaling and performance. This is generally attributed towards the inflexible nature of these architectures, where code base becomes unmanageable due to various reasons - like addition of new features, identifying dependencies, and side effects that could crop up due to scaling, etc. In these environments, adopting new technologies and making changes take a long time. The bottom line is that they are less agile and ancient. 434. Continuous Testing vs. Traditional Testing We hear the term ‘continuous testing’ a lot in the software testing industry. It’s one of those buzzwords that just keeps coming up, time and time again. 435. 13 Productivity Tools for Your Team to Watch on Black Friday If we had to choose the most used word of November, that word would be SALE. The Black Friday fuss is picking up the pace. Cities all around the globe are dressing up in discount advertisements, and inboxes everywhere are blowing up with cliche super deals like ‘save big.’ 436. How Can Developers Save A Failing Project? - Learn from My Mistakes Quick summary: A project is about to fail. Everybody feels it won’t meet the hard deadline. But the app ended up released on time and bug-free. How is that possible? 437. Unpopular Opinion: 10 Ways Asana Lowers your Productivity Abhor online project management tools? They are an unrelenting aspect of remote work. Meet Slack, Asana, and WhatsApp, the three horsemen of the WFHpocalypse. 438. An Effective Way To Write Executive Summaries For Your Concepts This article describes the ‘idea model’ and provides various examples of real ideas — explains how to write effective executive summaries for your concepts. 439. Pragmatic, Critical-Thinking Programmers Always Ask "Why" Asking why helps you develop pragmatic, critical thinking, which is different from mere curiosity. 440. Productivity Hacks: 5 Tips for Software Engineers and Knowledge Workers Everyone seems to be strapped for time these days and desperate to get more done in less time. I'm in the same boat. Here's to achieve more by doing less. 441. I Built a VSCode Extension: ngrok for VSCode Over the Easter weekend, a four day weekend characterised by lockdowns all over the world, I decided to use the extra time I had at home to start a new project and learn a new skill. By the end of the weekend I was proud to release my first VSCode extension: ngrok for VSCode. 442. How I Manage My Team So The Business Can Thrive Managing Guidance From The Diary of an Amateur (not anymore) CEO Who Runs a Six Million Revenue BusinessWhy invent the wheel when someone has already invented a bicycle? Whether in business or any other category, learning from others’ experiences increases your chances of success along with saving you time, resources, and money. 443. Write A Letter Your Future Self Will Thank You For Four reasons to write a letter to your future self, plus the biggest work-life balance lessons I'll be taking note of for mine. 444. Top 7 Tips To Become A UI/UX Pro Tips & resources to help you get started 445. Daily Standup Meeting Is Wasting Your Time Here is how I saved my team 2200 hours annually not to do it. 446. Simple Tips to Boost Your Productivity in 2021 (Part 2) Another ten productivity tips for programmers to help improve workflow and efficiency in 2021. 447. The Best 75 Evernote Alternatives: Complete Review Has Evernote become a unicorn that has stopped caring about its core users while trying to attract broader markets? 448. Code Search is a superpower Before starting a new coding task, I find it’s usually worthwhile to spend at least a little time trying to find a related working example, especially when the task touches on unfamiliar libraries or concepts. 449. Notion CRM template: How I use it to Grow My Career How to build a CRM tool to grow professional relationships and your career 450. The Winner Loser Continuum; and 3 More Lessons from Jordan B. Peterson Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and psychology professor at the University of Toronto who became a controversial figure in late-2016 for his critiques of political correctness. Peterson’s most recent book, 12 Rules for Life, has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Most recently, Peterson has suffered from health issues that necessitated a year-long reprieve from the public eye. 451. 9 Productivity Tools for Non-Technical Professionals in 2022 Productivity tools make professionals efficient and carry out their tasks in less time and effort, making you productive. 452. Protecting Your Mental Health While WFH The past six weeks have been challenging. As someone who thrives off social interaction and throwing ideas around in a room of people, working from home has been a huge shift for me both mentally and professionally. 453. Hard to Learn but Way More Fun: Why You Should Try Vim To a large extent, Vim still has a bad rep. This has to change. But it needs a little help to get started, so here's a post explaining the basics, with gifs. 454. How Data-Driven Agile Helps Deliver Better Software Faster What is Agile Data-Driven? 455. 4 Skills You Need to Become a Distinguished Developer Excellence in Software Engineering has never been a stationary destination where one can arrive sooner or later. It has always been a lifelong journey and learning process which demands consistency and commitment in order for someone to progress rapidly and to stay relevant over the next few years because of the ever-changing tech scenario. This element of uncertainty and demand for consistency has intrigued me since forever and hence compelled me to choose this a full-time career and what I’d like to do, at least for the foreseeable near future. 456. Lessons on Thinking: Learn from James Clear, Scott Young, Shane Parrish and More The idea of understanding and practicing how to best live our lives has ignited the greatest minds for centuries. 457. How We Set Up a Production Ready CI Workflow Using GitHub Actions Recently, we started a new project and it decided it was a good time to try GitHub’s newish CI/CD tools which became generally available in November last year. 458. Make Time for Making: 7 Ways Builders Control Their Days You have many good intentions at the start of the day, but before you know it, one request comes on top of another and you have a day full of meetings. 459. What it Takes to Get Your Team to Collaborate in 2019 Ever felt like you just nailed your team collaboration issues but run into more of them a few weeks later? 460. 6 Easy Steps to Make Animated GIFs for Short Tutorials Most tutorials nowadays contain many visuals to grab the reader's attention and explain how to better solve different problems. Specifically, I found that GIFs are a very good tool for presenting GUIs. In this article, I will show you how to make animated GIFs that can be used alongside text to create faster and better demos. 461. Dogfooding our Voice API: How We Deployed a Call Center with Python AIOHTTP Welcome to the second entry in our two-part blog series about building, deploying, and using a bespoke contact center solution using the Telnyx Voice API. 462. Notion: Superior Productivity For All Notion is an All-In-One workspace. Notion’s platform allows you to create task-oriented lists and projects, wikis, databases, lightweight CRM’s, tables & more! 463. Psycho-Coding: The No BS Effects of Coding on My Brain The Effects of programming on your brain and mental state 464. New To Working From Home due to COVID-19? Here's How To Prepare COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many people to work from home. How do I remain productive at home? 465. 5 Essential Items from the IKEAxROG Line for Your Home Office Check out the 5 essential items in the IKEAxROG collaboration for your home-office productivity! 466. How to Run Light-weight Scrum in JIRA - Advice from a Former Amazon Engineering Manager During my tenure at Amazon, the teams I was leading used to follow a very effective scrum process. It was made possible by an internal tool called SIM, which was integrated with various other internal tools, enabling a seamless project management experience. 467. 5 Ways Your Home Setup Could be Hurting Your WFH Productivity WFH productivity can be influenced by a series of outside factors. Optimize your workspace to optimize your productivity. 468. 8 Efficient Ways to Monitor Employee Productivity Monitoring employees’ productivity is a key to success at any company, be it a startup or a huge enterprise. CEOs and HR Managers know how important employee tracking is. Some modern technology and classic proven methods will help you keep an eye on employees’ activity. Here’s the list of the best ways to keep track of your team’s productivity. 469. The Immense Power of Vaguely Stated Goals The article is about the positive side of vaguely stated goals. If handled wisely, they better stand the pressure of the unknown and provide you good guidance. 470. A developer’s tale of deadlines and fantasy time estimates You were asked to write a program, and during the discovery phase of the discussions were asked how long it was going to take. The spotlight was on you as everyone turned to face you. On their faces you could see the real question they were asking… How long are you going to set us behind our actual target? Cause let’s face it, that is what they really want to know. How long do they have to wait before they can use and advertise that new feature to the market. 471. The Rational Software Engineer: There is No Perfect Project Mindset and ability to adapt to a project can matter even more than the project itself when it comes to satisfaction. 472. The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Strategy Session Companies can run for many years without strategy sessions, and be fine. Yet if they start doing that – they will inevitably see greater success and growth and just overall business improvement. Albina Zhdanova, the COO of Tools for Brokers, shares their insights into organizing a productive strategy session. 473. The 15 Common Tips About Managing Newly Remote Teams Remote work has become the most transformative labor trend of our lifetime. Long before ‘social distancing’ became a household term, businesses chose to operate with remote teams because of its benefits. 474. Mastering the Meta-Skill of Learning Few adults have been trained in the core skills and mindsets of effective learners. How do we learn to learn then? 475. Understanding JavaScript Generators And Basic Use-Cases In one of my many deep-dives about JavaScript, I came across generators. They looked interesting. 476. How To Use Nightwatch.js Framework For Test Automation Selenium is a widely used tool for automated browser testing. Being an open-source framework allowed Selenium to be compatible with multiple test automation frameworks for different programming languages and if we talk about automation testing with Selenium and JavaScript, there is a particular framework that never fails to take the spotlight and that is the Nightwatch.js. This is why I decided to come up with Nightwatch.js tutorial for beginners. 477. Kubernetes CRDs Explained: What are They and How to Use Them to Extend Your Kubernetes APIs CRD is a special resource in Kubernetes. Read along if you want to expand upon the capabilities of regular Kubernetes and create your own solution. 478. Mastering the Daily Scrum | Best Practices for Startups Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. 479. How We Manage Editorial At Hacker Noon At Hacker Noon's first All-Hands company meeting for 2020, CPO Dane Lyons talked the team through how the North Star framework applies to Hacker Noon. Since the term is pretty self-explanatory, I'll get straight to the story of how we're using this framework to prioritize activity. 480. Staying Focussed And Removing Distractions - A How-To Guide In a world that’s designed for interruptions, we are all vulnerable to distractions. 481. Every Day Unwanted emails dump 28,397 tonnes of CO₂ into the Atmosphere Our mission at Leave Me Alone is to help you to take back control of your inboxes by getting rid of unwanted spam. We bring calm and control back into your digital life and give you more time for the things you love. 482. Measuring Sprint Velocity We’re going to look at what sprint velocity is, how it can affect your development cycle, and what formulas you can use to measure sprint velocity. 483. 5 Emotionally Intelligent Habits For Handling Frustrating Situations In The Workplace By engaging in a growth mindset, you can move from complaining about frustration to finding a solution. You have the power to choose your mindset. 484. The Developer's Guide to Preparing Django Applications for Production Configuration of production and development settings in Django. Can we read from different databases? What about getting notifications on view exceptions? 485. How To Get The Most Out Of TypeScript I love TypeScript. I’ve been using it for over 2 years in various projects, and the more I use it the less compelling I find vanilla Javascript. 486. Automating Newsletters Generation from RSS Feeds Using Platypush I’ve always been a supporter of well-curated newsletters. They give me an opportunity to get a good overview of what happened in the fields I follow within a span of a day, a week or a month. However, not all the newsletters fit this category. Some don’t think three times before selling email addresses to 3rd-parties — and within the blink of an eye your mailbox can easily get flooded with messages that you didn’t request. Others may sign up your address for other services or newsletters as well, and often they don’t often much granularity to configure which communications you want to receive. 487. Your Ultimate Guide On HTML Tags 🔥 HTML Cheatsheet For All Developers by Garvit Motwani 488. Tech Addiction and Smartphone Dependency: Latest Science and Statistics How do we choose to have our new and rapidly evolving tools and capabilities impact our lives as individuals, organizations and as a global society? In order to make a smart choice, it is imperative that we have a good understanding of the impact digital technology already has or can have on our lives. What can we say with a degree of certainty? 489. How to Work From Home Efficiently: 7 Tools For Distributed Dev Teams We live in a world where change is the only constant. Right from the dawn of time, sustainable approaches have rendered the traditional ones obsolete and this, of course, is evident in diverse sectors especially the workforce. Why do something the hard way when you can get better results doing it the easy way, marketers usually ask. 490. From a Holiday Break Open Source Project to 27k+ Stars and 2.5k+ Forks Huginn: An Open-Source, Self-Hosted IFTTT 491. Here's Why We Invested in Minerva — The Internet’s Universal Process Sharing Platform Once you use it, you’ll wonder how you lived without it… 492. Universal Basic Income: "Threat or Menace?" This Slack discussion by austin, Dane and Patrick Lee (Mentor) occurred in hackernoon's official #slogging-beta channel, and has been edited for readability. 493. From the Brink of Suicide to Bliss: How Hormones Destroyed and Saved My Life Health is not everything, but without it everything is nothing. Thank you for checking out the 493 most read stories about Productivity on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo