My first project as dev at Hacker Noon was building and open sourcing a Chrome extension to block paywalled sites from search results. Here's what I learned.
Let’s take a look at some of the best coding hacks to remember in the new year.
Most makers, founders, side-hustlers, and hackers have a tonne of responsibilities outside of their their personal projects: full-time jobs, friends and families, school.
As people who work in the tech industry, we often need to learn new technologies for our work. But how can you actually learn things fast?
Mind mapping is a visual tool that can help you to organize your thoughts, ideas, and information in a way that is intuitive and easy to understand.
If you are using Windows and don’t want to use the RStudio client on the Windows side, this method will work perfectly.
What impact can sleep deprivation have on our ability to learn? What measures can we take to ensure a good night's sleep and facilitate knowledge acquisition?
Why taking good notes is critical for a software developers?
Ever since I discovered Notion, it has become a productive tool I use almost every day.
One attribute that distinguishes top-notch remote workers from the amateurs is their ability to manage work from home. You will observe this propensity from the world's best-in-class remote companies, including Apple, Lionbridge, and VIDKid.
This piece is about the benefits of using API system to enhance productivity and ease of work.
If you want to change your life, you need to start with your habits. Atomic habits are the building blocks that make up our lives.
Your well-being, routines, motivations and how effectively you plan, all play a role in your ability to remain focused while coding.
Having trouble hitting deadlines and staying focused? Well, have no fear! This article will introduce four productivity hacks that almost anyone can implement immediately and see fast results.
Starting your day with a morning walk has a large positive impact on your productivity.
Developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, the Pomodoro technique calls for using a timer to break down work into 25-minute intervals separated by short 5-minute breaks. After four sessions of work, the Pomodoro technique prescribes a longer 30-minute break.
2020 will go down in history as the year that turned the trend that was working from home into the norm for businesses across the globe. Everyone who can feasibly work from home is now doing so.
Let's be honest, starting a business can be challenging, but for many people (like me) - it's a lifelong dream. Although many people feel more comfortable starting a business with a co-founder - it's not always the best decision.
Welcome to Part 2 of the Tech Productivity Series
As a software engineer, you have to find the perfect mix of tools and templates that can help make you more efficient in your day-to-day tasks.
We’ve all seen the graveyard of abandoned projects folders. Desperately competing for attention but failing in the glow of a new adventure or app that will change the world. I use to do that all the time, now I finished 4 apps, and 2 other projects within the last year by applying the following steps.
A simple hack on your browser that can get you more focused and keep you out of web browsing rabbit holes.
Context switching prevents developers from finishing tasks quickly. Let's look at how to avoid constant context switching to improve productivity.
Feel like your slackin' in the Slack skills department? These Slack hacks and tips will help you improve the way you work.
The mere presence of your phone or apps like Gmail, Slack, and iMessage can decrease your ability to focus even when they don't actually distract you.
It is good to have a scrum master involved in your agile process, but what makes a great scrum master? In this article we look to break down the fundamental pieces to becoming the best scrum master you are capable of being. First, we must define what a scrum master is.
If you are running a business or just started your own startup, it’s important you keep an eye out on every minute detail. In case you are hiring designers, software developers, and/or a team for project management, tracking total working hours is probably what you should be doing.
I am sure that feel bored with your work from time to time. See how to solve it with a simple lifehack: Contribute to a privacy-related project.
As a founder of a startup, chances are that you have one thing constantly going on in your mind: getting more work done.
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
An Easier Way to organize application windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts.
This pandemic is the perfect time to focus on your side hustle
The flow state: A state of hyperfocus where you perform at an amazing level. Read about our different approaches to getting into this wellspring of focus.
Parkinson’s Effect is all about an overlooked barrier to efficient time management summarised as; every task takes exactly the amount of time you devote to it.
I'm sure a friend or family member has told you every do-it-yourself smartphone trick in the book. For example: don’t charge your phone using knock-off cables, bury your device in a bag of rice to reverse water damage, phone signals interfere with hospital, plane, and gas station technology, and more. Some of these are true, many of them are false. Who is to blame? General word of mouth. Let’s dig in.
If you're looking for ways to get more done and stay productive at home, music can help you achieve this goal.
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
Sometimes, it is about thriving. Sometimes, it is about surviving. We would be wise to adjust our strategies accordingly.
Productivity at work can make all the difference when trying to achieve your goals. Readout 7 productivity tips that anyone can implement to improve performanc
Developer life in 2022
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. Chapter VII: Controlling the Mind
Tradeoff between speed and quality is a myth.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. Chapter VI: Remember Human Nature
Become more productive as a developer in the next 10 minutes using researched backed tips and hacks.
So you’ve worked your way through all the good TV shows and movies? Next step: use your binge-watching habit to learn a new language. Here’s how.
Productivity is always one pomodoro away. Source: Pixabay
A universally applicable yet straightforward to understand tool can help you make sense of task priority. When you are swamped with work, ask this tool.
Want to improve your focus so you can get more done? Stop relying on self-discipline and use the Freedom app instead.
Here are four techniques that can help your reclaim your control over your time: Time Blocking, Color-Coding, Batching, and Calendar Audits.
Our human brains cannot correctly control multitasking and context switching, affecting our productivity and well-being.
A simple 5-minute setup to automate birthday greeting email to your customer every year without a miss.
If we had to choose the most used word of November, that word would be SALE. The Black Friday fuss is picking up the pace. Cities all around the globe are dressing up in discount advertisements, and inboxes everywhere are blowing up with cliche super deals like ‘save big.’
Focusing your energy whilst managing multiple businesses.
How to improve your focus - especially as a software developer. Book review of Deep Work by Cal Newport.
Productivity is key when it comes to getting work done with a smile. Burndowns are natural, here is how to minimize them and keep hustling.
Kaizen is deceptively simple and utterly brilliant.
These simple, easy-to-follow productivity tips will improve your output dramatically.
Doing our best creative work sometimes means tricking ourselves into leaving our minds alone. Here are six things to try while walking to achieve this.
Here are the game changing productivity hacks, tools, and tips that have helped me most as a software developer.
Who would know the best way to obtain efficiency with employees is to offer them as much flexibility as possible? Especially recently, working remotely has become the standard practice across industries. As the pioneers of this trend, technology companies are hiring more remote workers every day, realizing the remote work benefits. The reason for this is that remote work has many favorable effects on employee morale, and thus work efficiency, which tech businesses can benefit from.
Productivity in business is the continual effort of applying new methods and techniques. In simple words, productivity is getting quality work done quickly.
You are reading this because of one of two reasons. Either you want to be more productive, or you are looking for all that time that you lose during the day. You woke up early, worked all day and it still seems that your code or project did not move anywhere.
Think you know how you’re spending time? I’m not sure.
Do you often panic if you haven’t finished a task on time or just don’t have enough energy left?
We owe it to ourselves to try to find a productivity approach that works for us.
As people, we have a superpower; it is the power of perception. As the famous saying goes, life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it.
create a beautiful custom shell setup on your Linux/macOS with oh-my-zsh
Meetings keep increasing in length and frequency, to the point where executives spend around 23 hours a week in them.
The access to information we have thanks to the advance of technology is at a fascinating increase. This is how it affects our ability to perceive information.
Why is Evernote the only SaaS app that enables users to annotate attached images directly in Evernote? Well it's because they bought Skitch in 2011 and integrated the annotation tools.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. Chapter VIII: The Reflective Mood
Over the years I’ve tried different methods or adapted existing ones to make the most of my working time, but each new technique reminds me of the GTD method.
Not so long ago my life was an exercise in excel spreadsheets, over-scheduled phone calls, and constant emails. I was working in a high-pressure venture capital job, and putting myself in a state of mental fragmentation.
If you’re looking to be more productive in your life, you may have heard of the Pomodoro productivity hack or technique.
Before starting a new coding task, I find it’s usually worthwhile to spend at least a little time trying to find a related working example, especially when the task touches on unfamiliar libraries or concepts.
I used to be a coffee addict. And then, the deceptive Lady Caffeine of House Lannister started collecting her debts.
Everyone seems to be strapped for time these days and desperate to get more done in less time. I'm in the same boat. Here's to achieve more by doing less.
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
—Carl Sagan
Over time, habits will compound into excellent or disastrous answers to our daily entropy.
The greatest projects humankind has undertaken are not acknowledged for their ease of execution. Obviously, they are great because they are incredibly hard to do.
So what to do when your remote team struggles with getting things done?
As a software engineer, I often try to understand how to optimize my productivity: I want to get more work done, without having to do more work.
Since the Coronavirus breakdown, millions of people are stuck at home; and for those who are still in the job market — are working from home too. The so-called “social distancing” measures have increased the Internet usage all around the world by 50–70%. Streaming has also jumped by at least 12%, according to Forbes.
In this thread, our community shared the main lessons they've learned throughout lo life - from exercising to investing in education and seizing the day.
Whenever you say “I don’t have time,” you are sending a message about how you prioritize and organize your own life. Stop using this phrase.
