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How to fight against inertia to change the world

Changing the world requires knowing how to fight against inertia in all its shapes and forms. Here's how.

How to capture your thoughts and ideas

Discover how to capture all your ideas and insights. Never lose a great idea again!

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #138 - Sky is the limit

Welcome to the 138th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've started preparing for my move. It happens on the 22, and we still have tons of things to sort, pack, etc. There's also a ton of boring administrative details

How PKM and note-taking tools help us think more effectively

In this short article, I want to discuss how Personal Knowledge Management and note-taking tools help us think more effectively. Introduction The following article is quite interesting, but I think that the author focuses too much on the act of thinking, and not enough on the context in which that

There's a lot more to journaling than what most people think

There's a lot more to journaling than what most people think... I've been journaling for a number of years, and it has helped me tremendously! Here's why...

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #137 - Video gogo

Welcome to the 137th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I only had one day to work on my own projects, so I tried to make it count! I've focused my energy on marketing the Obsidian course, and recording new

Automatically move notes in Obsidian

I’ve published a new video, explaining how to automatically move your notes around in Obsidian: About Sébastien Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois (you can follow me on Twitter 🐦). I'm an author, founder, and CTO. I write books and articles about software development & IT, personal knowledge management, personal organization, and

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #136 - New Course

Welcome to the 136th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week marks the end of the vacation period for the kids here in Belgium. A part of me is sad, but the other cannot wait. When kids go back to school,

Announcing the Obsidian Starter Course

Discover the Obsidian Starter Course

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #135 - New friends

Welcome to the 135th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 As an indie hacker/bootstrapper, my motto is to enjoy the journey. I don't focus overly on the end goal, as it might be too far away, unreachable, and that would just

Eventual reciprocity

Eventual reciprocity is a long-term game that can help you build better relationships, accumulate trust, social capital, reputation, and has unexpected benefits.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #134 - Community brain

Welcome to the 134th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I was on vacation with the kids, but we stayed at home. Unfortunately, while I love being with the kids, it means that recording my course was nearly impossible. It's

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Links #20

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ The best way to support my work is to become a supporter. You can also buy one of my products on Gumroad. Time for a

Continuous note-taking

Note-taking/note-making is continuous. Keep coming back to your notes to improve them, instead of considering those as "final". Here's why.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #133 - Rusty

Welcome to the 133rd edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've been quite busy with administrative stuff. As I'm buying a new home, there are countless papers to fill-in, sign, etc. Also, we've been looking for furniture, which is crazy

On the importance of non-goals

Goals are key to progress, but non-goals are complementary, and help go in the right direction. Here's why.

Why all solopreneurs should write a journal

All solopreneurs would benefit from writing a journal. Here's why!

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #132 - Back in the zone

Welcome to the 132nd edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 Vacations are over... for July! We had a real blast on the Belgian coast! We've enjoyed the sun, the wind, the icy water, as well as (too much!) fresh Belgian beer ❤️. I

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #131 - The road ahead

Welcome to the 131st edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 I'm still on holiday, but I wanted to reach out to you anyway. Consistency is something that matters a lot in my life, and I wouldn't want to miss an opportunity to

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #130 - Delayed Gratification

Welcome to the 130th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, while I appear in your mailbox as usual, I'm actually not around. I'm on vacation for two weeks. Still, I wanted to keep showing up. During my vacation, I plan

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #19

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ The best way to support my work is to become a supporter. You can also buy one of my products on Gumroad. Time for a

Learning Just in Time vs Just in Case

Learning just in time and just in case are both useful. But there's a balance to be found, and strategic thinking to apply. Be mindful of what, why and how you learn.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #129 - Riding Ocean Waves

Welcome to the 129th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 Subscribe to the newsletter This week has been quite FUN. I've had a bunch of coaching sessions with "students" coming from all walks of life. Each session is different, and I feel

How to communicate with your future self

Most people struggle to communicate with others. Sometimes they realize, sometimes they don't. But many would also benefit from better communicating with their future self. Here's why it matters, and how to do it.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #128 - Betting on yourself

Be your own success. Bet on yourself.

Why and how to approach journaling as a founder

Why and how journaling can supercharge your journey as a founder.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #127 - Ideal trajectory

Welcome to the 127th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 It's HOT in here this week! ☀️. As temperatures rise here in Belgium, my productivity hits rock bottom. It's hard to focus and remain productive when the environment is uncool (to say the

Summary of what alcohol does to your body, brain and health

No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health. Here's why.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #126 - 40

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 126th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 I turned 40 yesterday.

How I use daily notes

An overview of how I use daily notes and how I extract knowledge from those.

Be grateful for the small things too

In this article, I want to discuss gratitude, and how it (really!) helps look back with a different mindset. Introduction What do you see when you look back? Do you remember everything clearly? What stands out? Do you remember what made you happy yesterday? Last week? What about last month

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #125 - A sea of opportunities

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 125th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I couldn't

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #124 - Polywork

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 124th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've been

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #123 - Escape the game

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 123rd edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 What a week!!! I

Optimizing for happiness

Stop optimizing for money and status. Focus on happiness instead.

Preparing for the future of knowledge work

Large Language Models are here to stay, and they might change everything. How can we prepare for the future of knowledge work?

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #122 - PKM Coaching

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 122th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 I have huge news

Ten Personal Knowledge Management Practices to Explore and Master

Ten practices that you should explore to improve your Personal Knowledge Management skills

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #121 - Open Source

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 121th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I took

The value of atomic notes

Atomic notes are a key element of PKM success. Here's why

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #120 - One Goal

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 120th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week I've decided

One goal per day

One goal per day is all you need. Here's why.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #119 - Baby steps

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 119th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've continued

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #18

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #118 - Big goals for big moves

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 118th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've continued

Meeting with yourself

Meeting with yourself can profoundly impact your wellbeing, happiness and productivity. Don't miss out on the opportunity!

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #17

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #117 - Works

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #116 - Keep Going

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 116th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've spent

The value of timeless concepts

Timeless concepts are safe bets when learning

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #115 - Moving Forward

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host (I'm on Twitter). You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 115th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've spent

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #16

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ The best way to support my work is to become a supporter. You can also buy one of my products on Gumroad. Time for a

It's Great to Participate in the Transformation (GPT)

Conversational AIs are here to stay. Learn how to use those to remain relevant

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #114 - GPT: Great to Participate in the Transformation

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 114th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week has been quite busy. The

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #113 - Grains of sand and Mountains

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 113th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've decided to acquire new

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #15

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The poison of Perfectionism

Perfectionism is a poison. It's a disease that we need to understand and fight against. Here's why.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #112 - Consistency

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 112th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, apart from preparing boxes for

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #111 - Passion

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 111th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week I'm a bit late with

Content curation as a way to level up communities

In this article, I want to discuss about community content curation. It's a practice that can truly empower communities. Subscribe to the newsletter Introduction All communities have domain-specific knowledge. For that knowledge to be disseminated within the community, it must first be curated, regrouped, organized, and managed over time. Community

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #14

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Focus on things that don't change

Focus on things that don't change to build solid foundations and invest your time in the best possible way.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #110 - Breathe

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 110th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week marked the end of the

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #109 - New Bet

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 109th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week has been an incredible emotional

IT Concepts Wall

Discover the IT Concepts Wall, a huge collection of resources about IT and Software Development.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #108 - The Future of Community Knowledge Management

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 108th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I started working on Knowii,

Meta-learning, the missing link in (your) education

Meta-learning (learning how to learn) might be the key that you need to build a better future for yourself.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #107 - Time to build

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 107th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week has been yet another whirlwind.

Optimism, pessimism and freedom

Optimists tend to find more creative solutions. Here's why.

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #106 - Oops

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 106th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've had a great time

Tools for Thought's greatest benefit

The greatest benefit of Tools for Thought (TfT) is not what you think

My daily note template in Obsidian

In this article, I want to share the template I use in Obsidian for my daily notes. Introduction As journaling is part of my habits, I use my daily note template every single day. That's why I like to keep it simple and usable. My daily note template Let me

Showing Obsidian front matter using Dataview queries

How to use the dataview plugin to display the YAML front matter of Obsidian notes as a table

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #105 - 10K

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #13

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #104 - Pushed to write

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ The best way to support my work is to become a subscriber. Welcome to the 104th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you

How to fight against decision fatigue

Our decision-making power is limited. Each day, it quickly depletes as we make decisions. Learn more about decision fatigue and discover tips to avoid it

Are my Thoughts Useful?

Thoughts are nothing more and nothing less than thoughts. We don't have to accept them as true. Read this to learn more about cognitive defusion.

Community Knowledge Management

Communities need specific Knowledge Management solutions

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #103 - Mistakes help us learn

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 103rd edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 If you enjoy this newsletter and get

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #102 - Planning time

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 102nd edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 Happy new year, everyone! 🎉 2022 has been

Systems for health, intention, productivity, learning, knowledge, information management and control

How systems thinking can change your life

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #101 - Looking back at 2022

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #100 - New Beginning

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Keep the power to end things

Ending things is a superpower. Don't give it up too easily!

Why is Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) useful

The key reasons why Personal Knowledge Management is useful

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #12

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #99 - Peak

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Issue #98 - Migration

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois, your host. You're receiving this email because you signed up for DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Thank you for being here with me ✨ Welcome to the 98th edition Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've been busy migrating my

Effective note-taking tips

Top tips for effective note-taking

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Black Friday Experiments

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Note-taking vs Note-making

Taking notes and making notes are different but complementary. Learn about the difference and why you should care

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #11

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Top of mind note

In this article, I want to share a few ideas about how to deal with what's on top of our minds. Introduction Every single day, we have many things on our minds. We think about what we need to buy from the grocery store, when to pick up the kids,

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Unnamed

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Why take and make notes

Why taking and making notes can change your life for the better

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Falling off the clouds

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The Capture Habit

Why capturing ideas and concepts can make a huge difference for your personal development and career

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Time off

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50 Tabs means 50 Mental contexts and needless cognitive load

Close those tabs to regain mental resources and be more productive

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #10

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Month in review

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Gearing up

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Energy crisis

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The Must-Have Obsidian plugins

An overview of the best Obsidian plugins. Make sure to read this and try these out!

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Silence is golden

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Month in review

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Procrastination

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Prompt engineering

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #9

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Calm businesses are a viable path too

Startups and fast growth are not the only way. Creating a calm business is also a viable path to success

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Calm Business

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Eyes on target

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Saving and restoring your mental contexts to improve mental health and productivity

This article explores mental contexts and the importance of handling those properly to improve mental health and productivity

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Back to it

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Misguided

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Disconnected

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Heat waves

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The Feynman Technique

Richard Feynman has given us a wonderful technique to improve the way we learn. Discover the famous Feynman technique and start learning more effectively

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Personal Organization System

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Next steps

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - What is life anyway?

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #7

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - New chapter

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Boomerang

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Truly dead

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Reach

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - 3K

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Proof of Work (PoW)

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Eventual reciprocity

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Why and how to tag notes in your PKM

Tags are a great way to categorize, describe and track your notes. This post will show you how to approach tagging the notes in your PKM

Periodic reviews for a happier and more productive life

Discover how to leverage periodic reviews to achieve your goals and get more out of your life

Maps of Content (MoCs) for better Knowledge Graphs

Understand what Maps of Content (MoCs) are in the PKM ecosystem. Discover why they are useful and how they can help strengthen your knowledge graph

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Financial captivity

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #5

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Overlapping realities

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The Zettelkasten method

Discover the Zettelkasten method, one of the most powerful note-taking systems

The Johnny Decimal system

Discover the Johnny Decimal system and organize anything with grace

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Broken records

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The PARA method

The PARA method is a great way to organize your digital information. Here's a quick introduction

The LIFT principle

Discover the LIFT principle and why you should apply it to improve your personal organization

Markdown introduction

Markdown is everywhere. Learn what it is, why it is useful as well as its pros and cons

Why you need a single source of truth for your PKM system

Having a single source of truth for all types of data in your PKM is key to a solid system

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Launch too soon

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The mythical right time

Waiting for the right time is an illusion. Let me tell you why

Introducing the Obsidian Starter Kit

Get started with Obsidian with a solid and scalable organization system

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - It's later than you think

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It's later than you think

Time is of the essence. Time flies, and it's later than you think

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #4

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Data hoarder

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25+ Years of Personal Knowledge Management. From scattered ideas to networked thoughts

In this post, I describe my entire Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system and its evolution over 25+ years

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Chaos bag

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - The right time

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Unbundling PKM

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Audio turmoil

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - War in Ukraine

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - The Lab

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #3

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How to capture book notes and turn those into smart notes

How to capture thoughts, ideas, and knowledge to retain more from the books you read

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Void

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Introducing the Personal Knowledge Management Library

Learn how to learn and explore Personal Knowledge Management with the PKM Library

Why you should take notes while reading non-fiction books

Why it's critical to take notes while reading non-fiction books

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Flywheels

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The focusd community: Let's focus on Zen Productivity

Discover the focusd community, a space for people who want to be more focused and productive without burning out

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Personal Knowledge Management Matters

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My current Indie Hacking toolkit

Discover some of the tools I use as an Indie Hacker and creator

Product development process: From idea to code

How to go from an idea to an actual product. A story about product development

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Interleaving books

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #2

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Don't fit in

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How to think logically

Learn what it means to think logically. Cultivate thought processes to help you better solve problems

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Midweek Links #1

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Focused

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Community-first learning

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - 2021 Lessons Learned

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Looking left and right

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Growth

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Personal Knowledge Management organization

In this post, I dissect my Personal Knowledge Management system

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Creativity

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Prototyping

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Laser Focus

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An online community for lifelong learners

Discover the Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) community, a community for lifelong learners

Developer Career Paths

Discover developer career paths you can choose to pursue

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Small and riskless bets

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Angular 13 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 13

Why Craftsmanship Matters

Craftsmanship has been around for ages, but why does it matter in software engineering?

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Neurodiversity

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Entrepreneurial journey

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Practice an evening routine to feel better every day

Learn about the benefits of defining a clear evening routine to improve your well-being

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Web3 hype

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How to use Tailwind with Svelte and Nrwl NX

Learn how to use Tailwind with Svelte and Nrwl NX

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Community building

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Journaling every day is powerful - Part 1: Introduction

Discover journaling and how it can help you live a happier, more fulfilling and more productive life

Journaling every day is powerful - Part 2: Going further

Discover journaling and how it can help you live a happier, more fulfilling and more productive life. Part two

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - About Time

Hello everyone!Welcome to the 26th edition of my newsletter.Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great week. Reply to tell me your story; what have you discovered/learned/enjoyed this week ❓ About Time This week, my main reflections were about time and memories. It

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Home sweet home

Hello everyone!Welcome to the 25th edition of my newsletter.This week has come and gone without me noticing. I’ve spent my days in a constant rush, taking care of the children, doing roundtrips between home and the hospital, and doing laundry 😂. But it’s over now, Raphaël and

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - The Next Waves

Hello everyone!Welcome to the 24th edition of my newsletter.I hope you all had a great week. Mine was fantastic. My third child, Raphaël, is born this Friday. I couldn’t be happier right now! 😀 As you can imagine, I didn’t sleep all that much since Friday, but

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - The Clock is ticking

4000 Weeks This week I’ve been reminded that we only have ~4000 weeks to live, which means around 28000 days. I don’t know about you, but it feels very little to me!I’ve been here for almost 14000 days, so I’ve used half my time on

Problem-solving 101

Discover the most important problem-solving skills and techniques

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #22 - Ecosystems and Integrated Thinking Environments

Welcome to the 22nd edition of my newsletter. Hello everyone! Welcome to all the newcomers. I hope that you’ve all had a great week! This one has been another productivity shipwreck for me. But it’s all right; life has a way to remind us that we can’t

Quality vs user satisfaction

Software crafters care a lot about the quality of their work, but business realities are generally much more important. As a software crafter, you'll often be faced with the following conundrum: how to deliver the best possible quality results, hence satisfying the crafter in you, while pleasing end users, who

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #21 - Communities makes us stronger

Welcome to the 21st edition of my newsletter. What a week! I thought that I’d have time to work on my projects, but instead, I’ve spent a lot of time in the hospital. Life is always full of surprises! In the last edition, I’ve mentioned that our

An online community for Software Crafters

A software development community for beginners, professional and artisans

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #20 - Future of Work

Welcome to the 20th edition of my newsletter. I hope that you’ve all had a great week! We’re almost in September already. The finish line for 2021 is getting closer and closer. There are only 132 days left, and those are precious. Let’s make the best of

Software professionals are crafters

On why Software Craftsmanship matters

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #19 - A Second Brain for Everyone

Welcome to the 19th edition of my newsletter. Before we dive in, I want to share a secret with you: I’m stressed. Truth be told I’m stressed all the time, like most of us, and not only because of Covid-panic. No, I’m stressed because I’ll be

How to get started in IT and grow as a Software developer

Learn how get started in IT, and how to grow as a software developer

What is the difference between software developers, engineers, coders, and programmers

What is the difference between software developers, engineers, coders, and programmers

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #18 - Exponential Change

Welcome to the 18th edition of my newsletter. This week has been great compared to the previous ones. The floods here in Belgium and a few other countries have done so much damage that it will take years to reconstruct everything. I’m grateful that our family hasn’t been

What is software engineering

In this article, I'll share my personal take on the difference between software development and software engineering (SE). It is a personal opinion, so take it with a grain of salt. This content is part of my Dev Concepts series of books. So what is it about? Many people may

What is software development

A clear explanation about what software development is about

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #17 - Next Generation Personal Knowledge Management

Welcome to the 17th edition of my newsletter. A few more people have joined recently. I’m really grateful that you’re interested in what I’m sharing over here! As usual, I’d like to ask all of you to help me out a bit. If you find this

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #16 - Dad x3

Welcome to the 16th edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. I wanted to check in and keep in touch with you all. It amazes me, but there are now so many of you following me that I’m getting nervous when pressing the “Send” button! I’m really grateful that you’

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #15 - New Site

Welcome to the 15th edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Whew, time flies! It’s been a few months since the last edition of my newsletter. The last few months have been hectic, I’ve worked too much (yes, that’s possible :p). As usual, I’d like to ask all

Angular 12 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 12

Why Tailwind's Just-In-Time (jit) mode is a game-changer and how to use it right now

Learn how to migrate to Tailwind 2, and enable just-in-time for applications and Storybook

How Angular applications start

Discover how Angular applications start and what main.ts does

Lazy loading Angular applications

How to delay the execution of your Angular app

Welcome on my brand new blog

First post on my new blog

21 months in and 80K views later

How my failed startup experience led to 80K views in a month

Configuring and using the Apollo client in a Next.js TypeScript application

Learn how to integrate the Apollo GraphQL client in a Next.js TypeScript application

Design Sprint cheat sheet

A cheat sheet for Design Sprint 2.0

How User Interface, User Experience and Customer Experience relate

Learn about UI, UX and CX

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #14 - Startup Woes

Welcome to the 14th edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Since this is the first newsletter of 2021, let me start by giving you my best wishes for 2021. May this year be full of wonders for all of us. As usual, I’d like to ask all of you to

Startup failure stories: 20 months in, 2K hours spent and 200K € lost.

I’ve been working for ~20 months on my current project, spend 2K hours on it, and “lost” 200K € by not doing something else. That project is not ready yet. Here’s the story behind it

DeveloPassion's Newsletter - Less is more

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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #13 - Nrwl Nx 11 and Prime NG 11

Welcome to the 13th edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Before we start, I’d like to ask all of you to help me out a bit. If you find this newsletter interesting, then please do take a bit of time to share with others on social media: With your help,

Creating a table of contents with HTML and CSS

Learn how to use HTML and CSS to build a table of contents

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #12 - New Book and Angular 11

Welcome to the 12th edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Before we start, I’d like to ask all of you to help me out a bit. If you find this newsletter interesting, then please do take a bit of time to share with others on social media: With your help,

Create Office add ins with Angular and Nrwl NX

A modern way to develop Office plugins using Angular and Nrwl NX

Angular 11 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 11

How to mock TypeScript method overloads with Jest

Learn how to mock TypeScript method overloads with Jest

Software Development Concepts e-book collection

A collection of e-books to turn you into a full-stack developer

How to write simple code: Avoid the Pyramid of Doom

Here's how to avoid nesting code needlessly

Creating custom class-validator validators for MomentJS

Learn how to custom validators for MomentJS

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #11 - Team Management

Welcome to the 11th edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Before we start, I’d like to ask all of you to help me out a bit. If you find this newsletter interesting, then please do take a bit of time to share to others on social media: With your help,

Histoire courte — Zoey & Jenny — Partie 1

Zoey est de retour

Team management tips: 10 more ways to kill a team

Teams are way more fragile than you can imagine. Here are ten more things that can demolish one

Team management tips: 10 ways to kill a team

Great teams are hard to craft but much easier to break. Here are 10 things to avoid

How to manage junior staff: Don't leave them alone!

Junior team members should never be left alone

The journey from 4K to 30K views per month. Lessons learned

Let me tell you how I managed to be more successful with my writing

Angular roadmap analysis

Exploring the roadmap of Angular

What's new in RxJS 7

Exploring everything new with RxJS 7

Git tutorial for beginners — Part 4: Branches

Let’s now learn about Git branches!

Angular 10 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 10

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #10 - Nrwl NX 10

Welcome to the 10th edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Before we start, I’d like to ask all of you to help me out a bit. If you find this newsletter interesting, then please do take a bit of time to share to others on social media: With your help,

Translating the MatPaginator Angular Material component

The MatPaginator component of Angular Material can be translated, but it requires a specific approach

Typesafe checks against TypeScript interface property names at runtime

Learn how to safely use TypeScript interface property names at runtime

How to implement input validation with NestJS

Learn how to validate incoming data with NestJS

Introduction to TypeScript

What is TypeScript? Let's find out!

Loop through a TypeScript enum

Discover how to iterate over the keys and values of a TypeScript enum

Force change detection on third-party Angular components using ChangeDetectorRef

Discover how to force change detection on third-party Angular components with the ChangeDetectorRef

Removing Moment.js locales from your Angular app JS bundles

Reduce the bundle size by removing unused momentjs locales

Analyzing Your Angular app JS bundles

How to analyze the JS bundles of your Angular applications and fix bundle size issues

What's new in TypeScript 4.0

Everything new with TypeScript 4.0

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #9 - Angular 10

Welcome to the 9th edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Before we start, I’d like to ask all of you to help me out a bit. If you find this newsletter interesting, then please do take a bit of time to share to others on social media: With your help,

NGRX Component-store deep dive - Part 2!

Part 2: Let's dive into the new Component-store library of NGRX!

Introducing NGRX component-store

Part 1: Component-store is an upcoming reactive library of the NGRX family. Let’s discover it and see what it’s all about!

Angular Template Type Checking

Leverage strict template type checking to create bulletproof Angular applications

How to create a custom Angular Webpack configuration

Understand how you can customize the Webpack configuration of your Angular applications

Taking notes at work: How to never forget anything

Here's how to organize notes at work and never forget anything

Use a proxy to bypass firewalls in corporate environments

In medium to large companies, it’s almost always the case that your Web traffic has to go through a corporate proxy to reach the Web. Here’s how to find out more about those proxies and how to use them from your tools and terminals

Git tutorial for beginners — Part 3: Commits, log and amend

Discover how to create and modify commits with Git, but also how to look at the commit log

Embedding translations in your JS bundles with ngx-translate

Embedding translations in your JS bundles can be useful to speed things up if you know that users need to switch between languages regularly. Here's how to do it

TypeScript Switch Case best practices

Switch statements are sometimes considered a code smell, but when they do make sense to use, you’d better make sure you don’t forget a single case. Luckily, TypeScript can help

Angular best practices: Constructor vs ngOnInit

Learn why ngOnInit is not always the best solution

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #8 - Bash

Welcome to the 8th edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Before we start, I’d like to ask all of you to help me out a bit. If you find this newsletter interesting, then please do take a bit of time to share to others on social media: With your help,

Strongly typing your Angular route data

Use typed route parameters to improve the quality of your Angular code

NPM best practices: Stop installing npm packages globally

There is almost no use in installing npm packages globally. Here's why

Git tutorial for beginners - Part 2: Git repository, working tree and staging area

Understand Git repositories, the working tree and the staging area

What's new in TypeScript 4.0: Language features

Discover all the new language features in TypeScript 4.0

Git tutorial for beginners — Part 1: What is a DVCS?

Learn everything about git, step by step. Part 1

Team management tips: What's the bus factor and 7 ways to increase it

Learn about the Bus factor and understand why it matters so much

What's new in TypeScript 3.9

Discover what's new with TS 3.9

Angular Tips: Understand Angular scroll position and ScrollPositionRestoration

How to correctly handle scrolling upon Angular route transitions

Optimizing Tailwind for production

Learn how to configure PurgeCSS with Tailwind to reduce get rid of useless styles

Discover Bash aliases and understand why those are great

How to leverage Bash aliases to boost your productivity

Kubernetes tip: Force delete terminating pod

How to get rid of pods that are stuck in the "Terminating" state

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #7 - Node module

Welcome to the seventh edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Before we start, I’d like to ask all of you to help me out a bit. If you find this newsletter interesting, then please do take a bit of time to share this link to others on social media: With

Dynamically translating a PrimeNG menu using ngx-translate

How to translate a PrimeNG menu dynamically

What's coming with TypeScript 3.9

The coolest improvements coming with TypeScript 3.9

TypeScript Language Design: Non-goals

The goals of TypeScript are obvious, but do you know about its non-goals?

How to write code comments like a pro

In this article, I’ll explain how my commenting practice (yes, that’s a thing :p) has evolved as well as what I currently recommend, whether you’re a junior fresh out of school, a seasoned developer…

Creating a Storybook instance including stories from multiple libraries in a Nrwl Nx workspace

Learn how to create a Storybook including stories from multiple libraries in a Nrwl Nx workspace

Quickly amend a git commit by skipping edit

Here is the quickest way to amend a git commit

TypeScript best practices: Interfaces and custom types vs classes

Why you should favor TypeScript interfaces and custom types over classes

Fixing the "can’t resolve all parameters" error with Angular DI

How to fix the "can’t resolve all parameters" error with Angular

TypeScript monorepo best practices: Avoid import issues

Leverage TypeScript paths to avoid problems with your shared types imports

NGX Quill tip: Dynamically custome ngx-quill editors in an Angular application

How to customize Quill editors through ngx-quill in an Angular application

TypeScript type only imports and exports

How to use Type-Only imports and exports with TypeScript

Using ngx-translate with Storybook stories

How to use ngx-translate with Storybook stories

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #6 - TypeScript and Tailwind

Welcome to the sixth edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Like most of you, I’m now staying full time at home, working remotely 100% of the time, barely getting outside to do some exercise every other day. Since I have asthma, I prefer to avoid taking needless risks. Having spent

Tips to manage remote teams

Tips and tricks to better manage remote teams and overcome challenges

NodeJS best practice for production: Use stable node and npm versions across your projects and teams

Use stable versions of Node.js and npm to avoid surprises in production

Improving Gitlab CI performance with a custom Docker image

How to improve Gitlab CI performance and reduce CI/CD build times for Node.js projects using custom Docker images

Adding Tailwind to a Nrwl NX monorepo, Angular and Storybook

How to use Tailwind with Angular, Storybook and Nrwl NX

Going through depression and dark times

Heads up: This post will not give you the keys or fix anything in your life, but it’ll give you some ideas about what might help you to shed some light around you. Also, I’m no physician, psychologist or shrink, so don’t take any of this as

Authorization best practices

Authorization best practices to improve the security of your applications

How to start writing

A writer's process and tools. Kickstart your writing!

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #5 - Angular 9

Welcome to the fifth edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. The last weeks have been quite the thing! I’ve come back (half time) to my previous team over at the National Bank of Belgium and am enjoying the familar/friendly place, but at the same time having lots of difficulty

Self study tips for hungry minds

Tips to learn faster

DeveloPassion’s fifth newsletter

Fifth newsletter of DeveloPassion

Steps towards a better work/life balance

Work life balance tips

Work/life balance

Sometimes in life, we try too hard for too long. It's important to pay attention to our work life balance

Building a Service Worker with Workbox 5, TypeScript, Webpack and Angular

How to implement a service worker using Workbox, TypeScript, Webpack, and Angular

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #4 - Web Almanac

Welcome to the fourth edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Spread the word! First of all, I’d like to ask all of you to help me out a bit. If you find this newsletter interesting, then please do take a bit of time to share this link to others on

Deploying TLS certificates for local development and production using Kubernetes, cert-manager, mkcert and Let’s Encrypt

How to deploy TLS certificates for local development and production using Kubernetes, cert-manager, mkcert and Let’s Encrypt

Adding missing GPG keys for apt-get on WSL

How to add missing GPG keys when using WSL

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #3 - TypeScript News

Welcome to the third edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. Spread the word! First of all, I’d like to ask all of you to help me out a bit. If you find this newsletter interesting, then please do take a bit of time to share this link to others on

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #2 - Tooling News

Welcome to the second edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. NG BE 2019 conference videos I just saw that the videos for NG BE 2019 are already online: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnMfZM2S3QgbFvOyet5PMmQ/videos?view=0&sort=dd&flow=grid I’m a sad panda because I would’ve liked

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #1 - Welcome

Welcome! Welcome to the very first edition of DeveloPassion’s newsletter. I’m Sébastien Dubois, the owner of the company (and sole member so far :p), an IT consultancy firm based in Belgium. Through this newsletter, my goal is to share interesting things I stumble upon around software craftsmanship, software

The best VSCode extensions grouped in extension packs

Boost your productivity with the best VSCode extensions

Typewriter sounds on Linux

How to enjoy beautiful typewriter sounds while writing on Linux

TypeScript 3 Projects: What's next?

An appendix to my TypeScript book

VSCode tips and tricks

Tips and tricks to use VSCode like a pro

MoSCoW prioritization for daily todos

Extending the MoSCoW prioritization method to tag daily tasks

Configuring sourcemaps with the Angular CLI

How to configure sourcemaps with the Angular CLI

Tip of the day: using capture groups and back references to search and replace in IntelliJ

Using capture groups and back references to search and replace in IntelliJ

Searching for final methods in a Java project

Efficient way to find final methods in a Java project

Fixing ‘bash’ is not recognized as an internal or external command when used within npm scripts on Windows

Fixing bash is not recognized as an internal or external command error

The story behind my upcoming book: Learn TypeScript by Building Web Applications — part 1

The story behind my TypeScript book

How to write integration tests for a GraphQL API with Spring Boot and Kotlin

How to write integration tests for a GraphQL API using Spring Boot 2.x and Kotlin

Cleaning up database tables after each integration test method with Spring Boot and Kotlin

How to clean database tables after each integration test in a Spring Boot application using Kotlin

Using JUnit 5 with Spring Boot 2, Kotlin and Mockito

A guide explaining how to install, configure, and use JUnit 5 with Mockito in a Spring Boot Kotlin project

How to validate UUID with bean validation in Kotlin

A small bean validation constraint annotation in Kotlin for UUIDs

How to install and configure GPG

Some notes about my current setup for GPG/PGP. I’m currently using GnuPG and in particular GPG4Win. Portable mode As usual, I like portable installs and GPG is no exception. I’ve uncompressed it in my tools folder (synchronized across my machines). By itself, the tool is portable, maybe