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winget – Windows is not that bad

I moved out of Windows completely more than a decade ago. Basically, I was considering Windows as slow (hard drive format required every year), insecure (malware present in every pendrive I got from my friends), and unstable (frequent BSODs without any reason). It was also costly – over 100 euros Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 2 months13/04/2023 ago
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InnerSource? What’s that?

Have you ever had a task to write something commonly used in a company (like an authentication mechanism) for your greenfield project, but there was nobody to ask for hints how to connect to a corporate infrastructure? You checked with a couple of teams and discovered that the most experienced Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 4 months26/01/2023 ago
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JavaMelody – monitoring made easy

A properly monitored application can make life much easier, especially if something goes wrong in the production environment. Without the ability to see measurements related to resource utilization (like heap space, CPU usage, disk space, active threads, GC pauses, HTTP requests, and so on) it is pretty challenging to understand Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 5 months22/12/2022 ago
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Make your documentation awesome with PlantUML!

Some time ago, I briefly described one pretty useful Python tool that can draw fantastic diagrams from code: Draw architecture diagrams like a boss! There is yet another tool I can recommend – PlantUML. Despite the initial release in 2009, I have not heard about this tool for a long Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 8 months11/10/2022 ago
Popular Productivity Tools

Building your own knowledge database? Try Obsidian

For many years I was searching for a tool that could help me to build my knowledge database (and categorize notes or documents). Each application had its pros and cons. Among others, I used mostly Google Keep (fast, simple, searchable), Notion (powerful but slow for me), OneNote (generally good but Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 8 months29/09/2022 ago
Cloud Popular Tools

Oracle Cloud Free Tier – too good to be true?

Cloud-related topics are trendy for many years. There is no escape from that and sooner or later, every dev will need to get familiar at least with the key concepts. Yes, I know there are DevOps teams for that, and I have already heard complaints from developers that the maintenance Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 1 year30/04/2022 ago
Security Tools

Secure your files in the cloud – Cryptomator for the rescue!

The 3-2-1 backup rule I guess we all know this saying and I guess all of us have already advanced from type 2 to type 1 a long ago: There are two types of people : People who do backup People who will start doing backup — Author: life, for Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 1 year23/02/2022 ago
Productivity Tools

IntelliJ plugins that will speed you up – my battle-tested collection for 2021

IntelliJ IDEA has tons of awesome plugins which make this fantastic IDE even better. Here is my battle-tested list of plugins I use for a long time. General usage plugins Save Actions Save Actions plugin does the necessary code cleanup in the background, therefore you can forget once and for Read more…

By Dawid Kotarba, 2 years04/11/2021 ago
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  • winget – Windows is not that bad
  • InnerSource? What’s that?
  • JavaMelody – monitoring made easy
  • Make your documentation awesome with PlantUML!
  • Building your own knowledge database? Try Obsidian
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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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