Category: Life

  • The Mindful Coder’s Workweek: 5 Themes to Enhance Your Craft and Satisfaction

    The Mindful Coder’s Workweek: 5 Themes to Enhance Your Craft and Satisfaction

    TL;DR TL;DR for the TL;DR crowd: Screenshot this chart, print it out, follow it. Congrats, you’ve unlocked the cheat code to mindful coding. Now shoo – go be brilliant – or any other words that make you feel good. Day Theme Light Version In-Depth Version Mindful Fact Minimalist Monday Refactor one function to be more…

  • The Wasabi Method: Shocking Your Way Out of Anxiety Attacks

    The Wasabi Method: Shocking Your Way Out of Anxiety Attacks

    Ever felt like your anxiety is a runaway train, and you’re desperately searching for the emergency brake? You’re not alone. As someone who’s battled crippling anxiety from my late teens through university, I’ve been there. But what if I told you that the key to derailing that anxiety express might be as simple as a…

  • Exercise Snacks: The Secret to All-Day Energy and Productivity

    Exercise Snacks: The Secret to All-Day Energy and Productivity

    Are you struggling to find time for exercise? Feeling sluggish at your desk? Reaching for that bag of chips too often? Let me introduce you to the game-changing concept of “exercise snacks” – short bursts of activity that can transform your day, your health, and maybe even your snacking habits. What Are Exercise Snacks? Exercise…

  • How Important Clamping Is For Woodworking

    A little story about Car-Carpentry. In Short I think about people that are skilled carpenters the same way I hear people describe software developers. Carpenters do some sort of black magic to make things we interact every day with. Most of the time the black magic they perform is so potent that we don’t even…

  • How to Fix Your Sleep Cycle

    How to Fix Your Sleep Cycle

    In Short The Current Situation Its not unusual for me to stay up to 1am largely by accident having been gripped by some late night motivation to work on some project, normally on my computer. Its also not unusual for me to wake up somewhere around 9am and feel like right from the get go…

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