Noam Lerner's Blog

Showing worktree information in the shell prompt

How to show your worktree in shell prompt

Do the thing

How a quote by Alex Honnold affected me

Adapting to today's AI state as a Senior Engineer

Some thoughts on how I think senior engineers should adapt to today’s AI state.

Leveling up my claude code usage

A few tips for how I get more of using claude code

Improving a taxi driver's user acquisition

How to reduce friction taxi customers

Hyperfine - for benchmarking CLIs

Hyperfine for benchmarking CLIs

Change how you're being perceived

How your perception may differ from reality, and what can be done about it

Writing short TILs

Why I want to experiment with short TILs

Rising from failure

A few tips for recovering and rising from failure

How to factory reset an Android device with Family Link

How to factory reset an Android device with Family Link

Why I train with Freeletics

My reasons for recommending Freeletics

Using a decision matrix to simplify decision making

How I use decision matrices to simplify decision making

How to convince engineers to not reinvent the wheel?

How to convince an engineer that the right solution to the problem doesn’t involve writing code?

Tips for performing a successful software migration

Battle tested best practices for performing software migrations

Adding hooks when accessing environment variables in Python

How to add hooks to accessing environment variables in Python

Adding a Cloudflare page rule for redirects

Example case of using a cloudflare page rule for redirect

Working with stacked commits in GitHub with Sapling

Trying to work with GitHub and stacked commits with Sapling.

Increasing intent improves results

How defining and continuously aligning with goals helps achieve them.

Starting with a new team

Tips for starting with a new team

Automating my AC fan using Sensibo's API

How I used Sensibo’s API to automate fan actions using Google assistant and IFTTT

Reduce friction of getting your code reviewed

Several tips on how to get your code reviewed with less friction

When do I prioritize learning?

A simplified rule of thumb to help prioritizing learning vs. project work

When feeling worn out, rotate

When performing the same task for a long period of time, it helps to switch things up. Both in parenting as well as at work.

Writing Google Slides presentations in markdown with md2googleslides

How to write presentations in markdown and convert those to google slides using md2googleslides.

Initial site improvements using Google's tools

How to find ’low-hanging fruit’ to improve your website using a few of Google’s tools.

Remember to question the constraints

When tackling a large-scale problem, remember to crystallize what are the constraints of your domain.

Be nice, especially when you don't want to be

When you really to blow up at someone, this is the exact moment where you should be really nice to them.

Over engineering file transfer

When you can’t use your mass storage device as is, you can over-engineer the network to transfer files.

Whoami

Setting up a custom domain for github pages

A step-by-step tutorial for setting up a custom domain for a github pages site.

The bus factor, during the pandemic

How can teams prepare for the ‘bus factor’ during the pandemic.

Handling the low tide

How to make the best of times where there are no burning issues, no urgent tasks.

I'm the tech lead, I can create panic

About the potential impact and responsibility a tech lead has on the team.

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Setting up a blog using Hugo and Github pages

A step-by-step tutorial for setting up a hugo blog on github pages.