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Rock4uEu Theme Modernization I spent March modernizing the Rock4u.eu theme. It was about time, as I had not changed the design since the site was created in February 2019. In the meantime, I also added rock4u.es for blogging, and the idea was to bring the theme closer to the feel of rock4u.es while making it feel more modern. Another goal was to improve mobile performance. From the start, I had…
This year I am not using only Goodreads for yearly books review, I am using also the Bookshelf plugin in Obsidian. I still use Goodreads for checking the books reviews and add the books that I want to read. The main difference of the stats is that in Obsidian I track all readings, including pages of books I abandoned and the ones that are not finished during the year. So the stats are more…
Yee, I managed to reach my goal this year! I read six more books than in 2023 and one less compared to 2022. Was a pretty good year for reading. I managed to read 6213 pages compared to 3762 in 2023 and 6115 pages in 2022, the shortest book being “How to Live” by Derek Sivers of 115 pages and the longest “One Day” of 442 pages. The average length in 2024 is 310 pages. From 20 books, 4 books are…
Question: Why it’s so hard to finish a non-belletristic book after I get to 60%, is it only me? I like reading lots of non-fiction books. I like those so much that I need to limit the number of books I read this year. My reading goal for this year is: Read 20 books of which 60% fiction. I mix up the books I read, alternating between different types of books. I usually read two, or three books at…
This review come a bit late, it’s becoming a habit 😃. In 2023, I read way less that I planed. I managed to read only 14 books, one more by the 6 less than the target in 2023. This year, I read seven book less than 2022 and six less compared to 2021. Not the ideal year for reading. I managed to read 3762 pages compared to 6115 pages in 2022, the shortest book being “And Every Morning the Way Home…
I have found out about it on Chris blog Default Apps 2023 – Chris Coyier Furthermore, there is a list with people doing it at Hemispheric Views - App Defaults 📨 Mail Client: Gmail 📮 Mail Server: Google 📝 Notes: Obsidian ✅ To-Do: Obsidian 📷 Photo Shooting: Android Camera 🎨 Photo Editing: N/A 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar . 📁 Cloud File Storage: OneDrive , sometimes Google Drive 📖 RSS:…
Top Summary When we are dealing with creativity, time management is not helpful. We need to find the optimal mental state for different types of work, developing routines, and understanding hidden boundaries in thinking Managing Our Mind is More Crucial Than Managing Our Time Yet many of us approach productivity today as if it’s the speed of production, not the quality of our thinking, that…
Omnivore has improved the way I consume content, making it an indispensable tool in my daily routine. And is free, open-source, distraction-free and privacy focused as the team describe it. So what is Omnivore? Omnivore is primarily a read-later application, but it offers so much more than that. Let’s start. Capture content I am thrilled to have most of my readings in the same app and not in my…
Top Summary The book promotes Adlerian psychology where the past traumas are not so important, important is what we are doing. The separation of tasks Overcoming the past Freedom through social interest The significance of life tasks Living in the present moment Adlerian Psychology “Adlerian psychology is a psychology for changing oneself, not a psychology for changing others” The difference…
Focus on what fascinates you We all needs to be reminded from time to time: “ Focus on what fascinates you , no matter how uncharacteristic. There is no purpose because there is no line connecting moments in time. There is no plot. You are not a story.” From Derek Sivers’s newsletter https://sive.rs/pdog: Related Post: Shifting our Focus
I read this book back in 2017 and the book notes surface today in my Obsidian PKM, so I decided to write a review. What I appreciate in this book is the practical advise. Making Work Visible highlighted many of the problems teams are dealing with on a day to day work. It gives ideas for identifying and fixing problems, limiting distractions, managing workflow, and always trying to improve. The…
From Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker When you choose your pond wisely, you can best leverage your type, your signature strengths, and your context to create tremendous value. This is what makes for a great career, but such self-knowledge can create value wherever you choose to apply it One needs to stop focusing on our weaknesses. This will make our internal monologue to emerge only…
Discipline - is this all we need? While I was browsing on the internet, I found this phrase: “Like anything in life, discipline allows you to fulfill your goals and get things done. Discipline of mind and body. Discipline in work and family. Discipline in faith and wellness. Distractions and competing priorities that don’t align with your life’s vision and values must go”. Quote from Brent Gleeson…
I managed to reduce the number of apps I used. In the last two years, I have moved the tasks from Quire and the goals, the weekly reviews from OneNote to Obsidian. I believe there are many benefits of having the projects, the tasks and the notes in one app. It helps me focus as I don’t have to switch between apps and be distracted in the meantime. Is easier now to find something and link ideas and…
This review come a bit late, but better late than never. In 2022 I managed to read 21 books, one more by the 20 target in 2022. This year, I read one book more than 2021 and four more compared to 2020. I managed to read 6101 pages compared to 5625 pages in 2021, the shortest book being “Mortality” of 129 pages and the longest “Confessions of a Forty-Something F k Up” of 513 pages. The average…
Sprint is a technique used to improve productivity and efficiency, mostly used in software development. It’s a time-boxed effort that focuses on completing one feature or story before moving on to the next. Advantages of sprints in day-to-day life: Planning: In this type of sprint planning, we can plan our daily activities in advance and can decide how much time each activity will take us. This…
From Jurgen Appelo newsletter: Start Over, Start Better sent on 8 Jun 2022, 12:03: “Starting from scratch is exciting. There’s nothing more delightful than greenfield development, a freshly made bed, a new job without screwups, or an empty notebook with crispy white pages. Blank slates are beautiful. They are like getting a free get-out-of-jail card with all your sins forgiven. Who does not feel…
I have read in last period that innovation is a skill that anybody can learn. Is this really the case? In theory, this might be true, but in practice is not always the case. Let’s examine the five core values of innovation: Curiosity and a natural ability to question the status pro Risk-taking and a willingness to learn from failure Openness Patience, tenacity and the sense of giving the idea a…
While I love my Kindle, it is painful to have the notes and highlights exports downloaded from it. The way I exported the highlights in the past was: Going to https://read.amazon.com/notebook Select the book Downloaded the highlights using MarkDownload Chrome extension That was going smoothly, but the issue was with the books not bought from Amazon, as those don’t appear on the read.amazon. Those…
This year I managed to read 20 books, two more by the 18 targets in 2021. This is four books more than I read in 2020 and 6 more compared with 2019. I managed to read 5968 pages compared to 4852 pages in 2020, the shortest book being “The Inner Game of Tennis” of 134 pages and the longest “How to Bake a Perfect Life” of 416 pages. The average length in 2021 is 298 pages. From 20 books, 9…
Starting form 13 August 2021, GitHub no longer support account passwords when authenticating Git operations, like: git push origin branch_name git pull origin branch_name As a developer, to authenticate you need too use a personal acces token. To generate one, go in Settings: at the top right corner, on the left side of your Setting Profile click on Developer settings and on the next page click…
Agile metrics - great resource This video is a great overview of metrics! I believe is one the best compilation of metrics with the definition. Had listed not only the productivity and output metrics but also the outcome metrics and most important, from my point of view, the impact metrics. And myself, I considered as a bonus, is the last slide with the 12 rules of measurement. Four Categories of…
How to setup a local project from a fork repository on Windows 10 using WSL2. Fork the repository. Switch to local development folder: cd D:/localdevelopment/ Clone your forked repository on the local development enviroment. Add a new upstream repository: git remote add upstream https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER/ORIGINAL_REPOSITORY.git Verify both repositories are correct setup: git remote -v To…
Notes for myself. On the local enviroment, I had issues when using thirtybees project with smarty and get all the time the warning: Warning on line 84 in file /vendor/smarty/smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_runtime_writefile.php [2] chmod(): Operation not permitted The issue was that my user didn’t had permission to run chmod(). The solution: Add user on the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf User…
I have upgrade WSL 1 to WSL 2. To install WSL 2 I use: How to Enable WSL 2 on Windows 10 To get the list of the disto: $ wsl --list -v NAME STATE VERSION * Debian Stopped 1 Conver existing distro to use WSL 2 wsl --set-version Debian 2 To make all the future distro to use WSL 2: wsl --set-default-version 2 After i have all set, trying to access the local websites, get err connection, not good at…
This year I manage to read only 16 books from the 19 targeting this year. This is 2 books more than I read in 2019, but 2 less compared with 2018. I also read 33% from This is happiness by Nial Williams, but I founded so boring even the writing style is good, that I am not sure I will put the effort to finish it. I managed to read 5005 page, the shortest book being “Unlimited memory” of 136 pages…
This is a book I read back in 2018 and gave five stars in Goodreads. Highly recomended if you are interesting how the brain works, why the less knowldgeble persons win arguments and infuence people. Kindle Highlights long-term memories are based on new connections between neurons, supported by synapses, formation of which can be spurred on by doing something like repeating specific things you want…
Start with a question, draw the nodes, refine the nodes and do it over and over again, then the patterns emerged and get clarity and you can answer the question. First, start with the draw. The draw helps understanding the system. After the sketch is done, use the cards or sticky notes. These can be moved around and now you can discover new relations. The third part of the exercise is to draw but…
This post contain my notes from John Doerr TED-ex talk. To set the goals right, we may first answer the question WHY. Why we want to do that? What we want to achieve? And is we answer this question we can set the objective. They may be significant, have to be inspirational. And than we can follow them year by year. Another interesting insights - the OKR are not used for bonuses and promotions.…
Install Insomnia from https://insomnia.rest/ . Open Insomnia and click on the New Request button. Enter the request name, in my case Ipify. Ensure the request method is GET. Enter the url - in my case https://api.ipify.org , in the URL bar. To format the resonse, open the Query tab and enter format into the first new name field and json into the first new value field. In Windows, when clicking…
Excellent talk! Three take away: “Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.” The ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort. We need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier. That’s a lot for a 5 and a half minute talk. Also loved her honesty! Watch here the talk
The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure on TedEx. Brilliant! Very powerful and vivid talk. I have to admit that before wathcing this talk I wasn’t aware of the existance of X (company) (formerly Google X) and their interests in various technologies. Three ideas taken with me. Make an environment safe to fail. Focus first on the most challenging problem to figure out if the idea is viable or…
As part of my ShiftUp Qualification Program I was reading a Forbes article The Foolishness Of Fail Fast, Fail Often: Read here the original article A very good article! Made me to re-read the Agile Manifesto which is always a good thing. The most important thing personally I learnt: “Lean is a term normally associated with the removal of waste and inefficient processes to improve an outcome.” I…
Madatory PHP modules when install ecomm Thitybees open source: PHP version 7.2.0 php.h : lang/php72 bcmath.so : math/php72-bcmath curl.so : ftp/php72-curl gd.so : graphics/php72-gd imap.so : mail/php72-imap json.so : devel/php72-json mbstring.so : converters/php72-mbstring opcache.so : www/php72-opcache openssl.so : security/php72-openssl pdo_mysql.so : databases/php72-pdo_mysql soap.so :…
In order to restart Apache2 using DirectAdmin Login in DirectAdmin as admin user Go to Service Monitor and the services available apear Press plus sign and the options to Stop, Sart and Reload are shown.
Reminder about the difference between git add . and git add -A command. git add . The above command will stage all new files and the changed ones apart the deleted ones. git add -A The above command will stage all new files and the changed one and will delete the deleted files. On the other hand git add -u will track all the already tracked files and stage the changes but will not stage any new…
How to upgrade Hugo version on Windows 10 Download the new version for Windows 64 bit from https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/release/ Unzip the archize and copy the executable to /Your Hug folder/bin/ And that’s it. Simple as that! Verify the Hugo version using: hugo version
First you will need to enable"Windows Subsystem for Linux", Open PowerShell as Administrator and run: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux After that restart your computer. Now that the WSL is enabled go to Microsoft store and choose whatever Linux distro you like. I had choose debian, as I used it in production as well. Check if any updates exists…
Prestashop and Thirtybees always show free shipping Setting up the carrier in a new website, the carrier show all teh time the text “Free shipping” and no carrier were available. Check shipping location and ranges if they are correct setup Check “out-of-range” behavior is set to apply the cost of the highest defined range, otherwise the carrier is disabled. Check if the products has the advanced…
Sprint planning meeting, a possible agenda. The Product Owner starts the meeting by reviewing the sprint goal. The sprint goal is one - two sentences that describe what the team plans to achieve during the sprint. The Sprint backlog is the list of user stories and tasks the team commits to delivering during the Sprint. The Scrum Master presents the velocity calculated either based on story points,…
As a Scrum Master I have some favorites metrics which I usually use it. Burndown chart - used daily as an indicator how the sprint is going. Velocity and velocity variation - i use a three to six sprint rolling average. Sprint goal success rates. Time Blocked per User story. Defects found. Escaped defects. verage time between releases. Code mainttainability. Build time. This metrics are intented…
I found today a very interesting article about agile metrics: [Agile Metrics: the Ultimate Guide] ( https://www.extremeuncertainty.com/agile-metrics-ultimate-guide/#comment-7552 “Agile Metrics: the Ultimate Guide”)
Sometimes people forget how important is the role of Scrum Master. Is not about only being a servant leader of the Development Team,is also serving the organization and the product owner. Is the link between the team and the rest of the world. Here are some points that a good Scrum Master should take care of. Definition of done - is one of the most important definitions that should be inspected…