I am so sick and tried of changing task management systems, I will just be using plain .txt files from now on.
In the last 10 years, I have tried so many different systems for organising my work and my personal life and yet I’ve not been able to keep using one of them after a few weeks or months. After all this time I think I’ve finally come to the realisation that they all suffer from the same inadequacies.
It can be a real effort to bring yourself to write articles to maintain a healthy blog, and sometimes the simple articles are best. Therefore, I just want to take a quick few moments to talk about a tool that I just cannot live without now-a-days, when writing Go code, I am always live-reloading with Air in the background.
It’s really valuable for developers to be able to get fast feedback on the code that they are writing.
Chat that is always compatible, updated, and integrates with browser extensions.
Too many chat apps — can’t change that. The amount of chat applications and protocols out there now-a-days is getting absolutely crazy. It’s like in the 1990s, when we had ICQ, AIM, IRC, and others. For a little while, I felt like things were getting better — I got down to just 2 chat apps!…
Fast-forward to today — the chat apps I need are unfortunately even more than in the 90s.
I want to explain how I use this setup, and how I got here. Perhaps I will encourage you, to experiment with your desk and workflow.
6 monitors.
Pictured above, is my desk. It does indeed have 6 monitors. It also has 4 computers with 3 operating systems (2x Linux, 1x Windows — for gaming, 1x Mac — for iOS development).
I don’t intend to brag, or show off, or try and say that this set-up is absolutely essential for me and that nothing else would work.
My desktop after the story; i3, st, and some other stuff.
It was worth it, but I need to explain how I got here.
It’s about 2pm on a Friday afternoon, my week of meetings is finally drying up. I have a few hours in my calendar the rest of the day — and I’m not going to spend it catching up on more emails. I want to fill these last couple of hours with something a bit more fun, so I pick up the Ansible collection I was hacking code on and get to work.
This post is about how, and why, I use Git Annex to implement my 3-2-1 backup strategy backup strategy. In summary, that is;
At least 3 copies of the data In at least 2 different storage mediums With at least 1 copy offsite In practicality, I’ve used Git Annex to implement more like a 9-5-3 backup strategy and track everything nicely. This strategy should mean that I should not ever lose files that I care about ever again.
Speed up your command line navigation Photo by Kevin Ku from Pexels
Knowing a few key shortcuts can have a surprising impact. As someone who sits frequently with others over a command line to help debug code and navigate servers, it’s easy to become frustrated on their behalf at how cumbersome things can be when you may not know time-saving shortcuts.
Here are some essential shortcuts and key tips to help you speed up your command line usage.