SemVer in production – always keep separate production branch on its own minor

While I personally prefer CalVer, SemVer is still actively used for many projects and quite frequently I work on it. If SemVer is used for something that is deployed to production, one rule I’ve made is to always keep each distinct production on its own minor version. If we have only one production environment or… Continue reading SemVer in production – always keep separate production branch on its own minor

Collection of Fun Business Laws

In this page I just want to write down bunch of fun business laws and observations with links so not to forget for myself mainly. Page is wip so I may add stuff later 😉 Note, those laws are in no particular order.

Cool DevOps articles and reads

This is “a post in progress”, so will be updated as I find more cool stuff. For now, only one article and I find it really great – https://blog.gruntwork.io/5-lessons-learned-from-writing-over-300-000-lines-of-infrastructure-code-36ba7fadeac1 + discussion on hacker news – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18537102

Productivity tools to research

After ~15 years dubbing again into productivity field. Listing the tools I am either using or researching or going to research near future – mostly a memo post for myself. Jira Trello Taskwarrior Inthe.AM Asana (they just raised $50M round at $1.5B valuation) Airtable Smartsheet Notion WorkOtter Wrike Swipes Todoist Hitask And methodologies: GTD Pomodoro… Continue reading Productivity tools to research

Key notes from our Galapagos trip

This post is a summary of our Galapagos trip in November 2018. First of all let me say that Galapagos is a truly unique place. Since Galapagos have very small population and were virtually uninhabited until 19th century due to their remote location, this led to a lot of unique wildlife species spared from extinction.… Continue reading Key notes from our Galapagos trip

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2 great MOOCs to get a feel of computer science

I’m getting this question frequently – what are best online courses to start one’s journey in Computer Science. Here are my top two: 1. MITx’s introduction to computer science on edX – https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-using-python Note that this course is offered fairly quickly, can be audited for free, or for a paid certificate and is also eligible… Continue reading 2 great MOOCs to get a feel of computer science