Software developer, non-robot
Your clipboard can hold your short term memory much longer than your brain. Here’s a crazy idea: why not use your clipboard as a short term memory aid. Every so often you need to remember a short piece of information for a very short time. For example: somebody dictates a phone number or an address over a telephone …
More often than not, I will find myself sitting at the desk, staring at the computer screen for hours at a time. When I work, I always strive for razor sharp focus, or to put it in a more common term: the zone. I’m usually not even aware of time. Hours begin to fly by …
If you use passwords like 12345 for anything else than maybe your luggage, you probably don’t need to read this post. If you’re smarter than that and you use proper passwords, you might be interested to learn how to store them safely while having them handy at all times. KeePass is a very popular cross-platform …
Alexander Kmetec wrote an interesting story, about how a noisy workplace brings productivity down, and how this makes some developers desperate enough to look for cover in light-forsaken places, worthy of Office Space’s Milton Waddams himself. I agree with most of the premise of the piece, however: It doesn’t take two… It only takes one …
Ever since Google introduced Priority Inbox, the important emails have been more successful than ever in getting my full attention on time (or at all). But that doesn’t mean that emails marked as less important don’t have to be dealt with sooner or later. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve made it my mission …