The work is never just “the work”
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
Read more [davestewart.co.uk]
Posts tagged with productivity
Impact, agency, and taste
Many of the most effective people I’ve worked with also do the most metacognition, i.e., reflecting on their own (and their team’s) work and thought processes, and figuring out how to improve them.
Read more [www.benkuhn.net]
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An argument for logging off
Some nice thought by Aaron Francis
Read more [aaronfrancis.com]
Creating issues is now easier than ever
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
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How to build a writing habit
A wonderful essay by Peter Suhm
Read more [writinghabit.com]
How to build a SaaS in a weekend
– arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
Once you have an idea, releasing an MVP is easy! Learn how I did it, so you can do too.
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20 practical productivity tips that you can start doing today as a developer (no Pomodoro)
– medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati
A set of practical and straightforward tips for enhancing productivity as a developer.
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20 practical productivity tips that you can start doing today as a developer (no Pomodoro)
– medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati
A set of practical and straightforward tips for enhancing productivity as a developer.
Read more [medium.com]
All-hands planning meetings are probably a waste of time
Spicy headline, but good food for thought!
Read more [mikeveerman.substack.com]
Laravel Envoy - Automate the boring stuff
– blog.oussama-mater.me - submitted by Oussama Mater
Explore how Laravel Envoy can help increase your productivity by automating the boring stuff.
Read more [blog.oussama-mater.me]
Use ray()->trace() to figure out where a call came from original
An important problem of a programmer's productivity is finding his way through the code. A good project structure and your IDE can get you a long way, but sometimes it’s not enough.
Read more [myray.app]
The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
Give your brain the boredom and output time it needs to figure out what to do with that information. Don’t keep opening the jar and packing more into it.
Read more [blog.nateliason.com]
My Top 10 PhpStorm Tricks
Some really good tricks shared by Christoph
Consume less, create more
"Were previous generations really better off because they merely watched TV, or listened to radio, or read books? All of these activities are passive. All of these activities involve letting external thoughts temporarily replace your own. Today’s smartphones differ from medieval books only in degree—all media is created to be consumed. I had to start creating."
So much this!
Read more [blog.tjcx.me]
10 lessons in productivity and brainstorming from The Beatles
As a big Beatles fan, I enjoyed this blog post very much. I often think there are a lot of similarities between programming and making music.
Read more [medium.com]
How to Train Your Keyboard
– tighten.co - submitted by Jamison Valenta
We are going to walk through creating a system to bring uniformity to our apps with a single set of keyboard shortcuts. We'll start by learning how to install and configure the required apps, then, later on, I'll introduce the system of keyboard shortcut organization I use every day.
Read more [tighten.co]
A bash function to run tests for both PHPUnit and Pest original
I've used this little bash alias for many years to quickly run the tests inside of a project.
alias p="vendor/bin/phpunit"
With this alias in place, I can run the tests by typing "p" on the CLI. Nice!
For a long time, everything was great! But then, Pest appeared on the scene. It's an alternative test runner for PHP with a high focus on developer experience.
My Software Estimation Technique
Jacob Kaplan-Moss shares the technique he uses when he needs to develop a project timeline.
Read more [jacobian.org]
Develop faster by adding dev routes file in a Laravel app original
Laravel's awesome closure based routing was probably one of the first features I fell in love with. I take it for granted now, but back in the days, such a simple way of adding a route felt like a glass of water in hell compared to the other frameworks.
Typically, you would only add routes that are necessary for the users of your app. Something that I have been doing for a long time is to create a routes file, called dev.php, with routes that can help with app development.
When I lost a few hundred leads
Everybody makes fuckups. When you do, don't be ashamed, just try to learn from it.
Read more [stitcher.io]
