Useful Assumptions for Sharper Decision-Making
Some useful assumptions to protect against cognitive biases
Posts from Previous Augusts
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AI Hackathon: Lessons Learned from Building a Zombie Survival Game
A deep dive into my experience at an AI Hackathon, where I built a playable zombie survival game using Agentic AI. Learn from my planning, execution, and the surprising power of AI in game development.
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Text Templates For Trello
A set of thinking tools and text snippets I use to bring clarity at every stage of my workflow — from arranging ideas to asserting outcomes.
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How to Choose and Name Commands for Event Sourcing or CQRS
Explore two approaches for creating and naming commands in command-based systems, balancing domain logic with structured formats.
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Everything I know about Server-Side Caching
Boost application performance and scalability with effective caching strategies, from basic principles to advanced implementation in Spring Boot.
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Create In-Memory Repository based on HashMap for Unit Tests Using Generative AI Instead of Mocking
Increasing accuracy of your Unit Tests and making them as easy to write as Integration Tests.
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Write Cleaner UI Tests with Page Object Model Pattern
Page Object Model can be used with any testing framework to write cleaner and simpler tests that are fast to write.
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Journey Through Phase 1 Challenge of the Live Hard Program
Phase 1 in the second part of the live hard program after 75 Hard. I was able to do all the tasks of 75 Hard and 3 other tasks that were needed including the 8 critical taks. In this post, I share my journey and tips.
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TDD example for REST API - CRUD
Extending our Movie example creating a REST API with TDD. Scenarios covered are Create, Read, Update and Delete.
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TDD example on a backend - Upsert Method
Learn the foundation of TDD with a simple example explained in depth.
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How to promote the habit of TDD within a Team
Promoting TDD within a team requires patience, consistent effort, and a focus on creating a positive and supportive environment for learning and improvement.
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Feature Flagging
For Chaos Engineering and Continuous Delivery
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Code Reviews and Pair Programming
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Speed up Pipelines
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Enforcing Architecture with Architecture Testing
Architecture is a crucial pillar of accelerating product delivery. It's hard to keep a team in sync with architecture over time. Architectural testing can enforce architectural decisions as simple tests, dramatically reducing code review effort and extending code maintainability.
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We are all narcissist!
Everyone has snakes. We have it too.
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Encapsulate Blocking Call the Reactor Way
Notes from Avoiding Reactor Meltdown
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Writing better BDD specifications
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Towards Data Driven Decisions
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Negotiations
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What and when to publish on message queue
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Mutation Testing
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Leave Clues
Comments and Naming Conventions
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Resume and Linkedin Tips
Do you want to have high salary? or Do you want to have a good career? or Both?
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Decentralization of High Tech
How abstraction, cost and education convert research fields to applied.
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All Questions are False
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Inversion
Probably the most powerful mental model
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Decision Making Heuristics
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You need time to think
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Tips for working with `package.json`
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Solving N+1 Problem in Hibernate
Speed up fetching of child entities
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Gist of DevOps
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Applications of Recommender Systems
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Gist of Cryptocurrencies
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Positive effects of doing hard things
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Quick Refactoring Tips
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There is no one size fits all
Choose the right tool for the job.
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Physical Exercise
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Cases To Be Humble
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Keeping Web Dev Code proper
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User Experience
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Ethical Capitalism
The Game Which Everyone Needs To Win
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The Path / Ethics
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Employee Ethics
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Open Source Software (OSS)
Impact, Revenue and Deceptions.
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Business Ethics
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Piano
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Why Ethics?
Long term impacts
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Sapiens Book Summary
The best book I have read in 2020
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A replicable Development Environment with Docker + VS Code
Mitigating the most discoraging part of software development
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Developer Productivity
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How I learned basics of programming.
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Research
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Hurrying does not help.
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Eventually Perfect Feature
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Write Tests after Cleaning Code.
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Plan quickly. Move fast. Break things.
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Age is not a perfect measure of experience
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First Hackathon
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Software project never ends
Unless you stop
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Office is just school for adults
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Empowerment/Enabling
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Definitions
The same word is different for different people
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Who is your audience?
Rephrase: Who is your customer?
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Cloud is Worth the Hype
Your robot on the internet
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Communication Bottleneck in large organizations
and why communication policy is essential
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Give credit where credit is due
Recognition
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Reading Books
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Who is a leader?
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Just ask for it
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The lifetime of 'Content' is getting smaller
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Tips for coding on a slow computer
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Opinions/Events are not black and white.
'Probably Right'
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Probabilities
of "success"
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If it's official, communicate via email
Non-repudiation
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Businesses are for making money
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Opportunity Cost
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Facade companies
Only for-money companies
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When you are just starting out, don’t try to imitate the expert.
The illusion of perfect execution... every time.
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Middleman
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Support shows how much the company really care
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Samurai to Modern Army in 10 years
Forced to upgrade
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There is never enough automation
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Copying features and products
An observation of different technology companies
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Writing process (July 2020 Edition)
This post is stupid but I was asked about it once.
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Observe other people in action
Learning faster
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Just buy it. Don’t build it yourself.
For consumers
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Environment Focused: For-Profit vs Non-Profits
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Ideas
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Baton Road
How humanity progresses.
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ROI of Fun
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Marketing Money
Draft version
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How To Download Dataset From Kaggle
Using Kaggle CLI
