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Dev tips no. 4 – Know who you are

We all know there are lots of people unhappy with their work. It is not that easy to find something that meets all Ikigai criteria. I heavily believe that doing something meaningful, fulfilling yet financially rewarding is achievable for lots of people, maybe even most of them. One of the Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 3 years21/11/2020 ago
Productivity Tips

Dev tips no. 3 – No-hello policy

This is another productivity advice that I do not hear often. It is easy to apply and makes a difference for others as well. It is a “No-hello policy”, pretty well described here: No-hello Policy: How not be annoying. The rule is simple – if we want to ask someone Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 3 years11/11/2020 ago
Productivity

Dev tips no. 2 – type faster!

The second productivity tip for a programmer is so obvious that I almost never hear about that. I guess we all have read tons of posts about mastering our toolset, languages, time management, and so on. Maybe you have a different experience, but I almost never hear about the need Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 3 years09/11/2020 ago
Productivity

Dev tips no. 1 – get a trackball!

There are lots of tips and tricks that can make our life and work easier. I love them because thanks to simple things I can save lots of time and effort every day. Therefore, I am going to share a few things that work for me. I can be the Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 3 years08/11/2020 ago
Automation Continuous Integration

Jenkins for the smart and lazy

I guess nobody likes creating Jenkins jobs. And probably their maintenance is even worse if done manually. There are a bunch of tools that come to the rescue and I will describe them in a nutshell. Create your local Jenkins in less than a minute To achieve this pretty tight Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 3 years07/11/2020 ago
Blogging Front-end

Java’s guy journey to GitHub pages

Update: I have moved my blog and personal page to WordPress (and that is why dawidkotarba.github.io is not accessible). Still, GitHub pages together with the Jekyll are a great alternative. While it needs more work to customize the page than using WordPress, this option gives fantastic flexibility and ease in Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 3 years30/06/2020 ago
Blogging

First (welcome) post is there!

This post is going to be pretty short, even though it took me more than 10 years of commercial experience and days of thinking to finally write that. Generally speaking, I am going to create yet another programming blog. Even if that may sound boring, hundreds or thousands of other Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 3 years13/03/2020 ago

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  1. Dawid Kotarba on Oracle Cloud Free Tier – too good to be true?31/05/2023

    Hi Ariq, thanks! For me, the 25% of CPU usage did the trick. However, once I got the first "idle…

  2. Ariq on Oracle Cloud Free Tier – too good to be true?31/05/2023

    Thanks for detailed tutorial man! I recently received a „reclamation of idle compute” email, so I came across Google and…

  3. Dawid Kotarba on IntelliJ plugins that will speed you up – my battle-tested collection for 202106/04/2023

    Thanks! I will try that!

  4. Gary on IntelliJ plugins that will speed you up – my battle-tested collection for 202106/04/2023

    If you’re searching for a plugin to manage your CI directly from IntelliJ. It works with many CI providers like…

  5. Dawid Kotarba on Oracle Cloud Free Tier – too good to be true?25/02/2023

    Hi! I have updated this section with a few more images with examples. Hopefully, it is more understandable now.

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