Month summary — February 2021

I don’t own a lot. A grand total of 116 items, to be precise.

All first drafts of anything are bad drafts. It doesn’t matter what you’re writing – the first version of it probably won’t be very good.

Here’s a simple trick for getting more people to read what you write: write in spoken language.

5 strategies to end the cycle of “never enough

Steal these data-backed marketing tricks of the trade to improve your memos, emails, messages, and more.

10 principles for organizing your work, home, health, fitness, hobbies, finances, and more…

Professionals supposedly come in two shapes: either short and fat, or tall and skinny, meaning their skill set is either broad or deep. They can also be T-shaped—knowing a lot about a little and a little about a lot—but in this metaphor, that’s a compromise. After all, even a T need not have a 1:1 aspect ratio.

There are benefits to being a technical lead at a less software intensive business.

Linux is a great platform for programming—it’s logical, easy to see the source code, and very efficient.

Thinking of setting up a permanent home office for productivity? Here are the home office ideas for creating and designing your work-from-home environment when working from home is long-term.

But what if I told you that Git can be a valuable tool without ever setting up a remote repository? Used correctly, Git can help to structure your work, identifying gaps in your test coverage and minimizing dead code.

I’ll cover two of the more difficult things to figure out: removing and updating submodules from your repository.

Imagine you could work more and be wildly productive. And the best thing about it? You wouldn’t need to force yourself to work.

Here’s a list of reasons why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance, assuming that your application doesn’t actually need all the columns.

Read on to learn more about Zsh and some tips and tricks to optimize your development.

Don’t use Homebrew Python. It’s not meant for you.

Rich has become a popular (20K stars on GH) way of beautifying CLIs, and I’m pleased to see a number of projects using it. Since Rich is mature and battle-tested now, I had considered winding-down development. Until, I saw this tweet: The Tweet Do you want to see something […]

If you’re using an old version of pip, installing the latest version of a Python package might fail—or install in a slower, more complex way. Learn what the problem is exactly, how to solve it, and what causes it.

Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool, extendable via plugins.

See what’s happening on GitHub in real time (also helpful if you need to use up your API quota as quickly as possible).

One second to read GitHub code with VS Code.

A compiled list of links to public failure stories related to Kubernetes.

Nikita Voloboev personal wiki where he shares everything he knows about this world in form of an online GitBook hosted on GitHub.