Productivity

WIP. This post is not finished. Why For a long time I didn’t care about the note taking too much, thou, I was writing long MS Word documents with the ideas of the project, user stories and other things. It all changed when I switched to the Linux. Because Linux was pretty much new to me, I had a lot to learn and remember. So, gradually I started to write my little runbooks to document the steps I took to get to the point B. For example, how do I create SSH keys. Or how do I configure my firewall. And so on. ...

WIP. This post is not finished. For a very long time I was Windows only user. Nor did I liked it, nor did I hated it. I just was somewhat above average user. But it all ended when I started to work with Go and Kafka Go library which I needed to cross-compile for an Linux system. And it was pain. CygWin, MinGW an a lot of gymnastics around it. In parallel I was trying to be in the “microservices” hype train. I was constantly running like 20 terminal windows for each little service, observing logs, restarting, compiling, etc. It was a pain. ...

This post is a public draft, which may or may not be completed. As new thoughts come to mind, I may improve this article over time. PC Monitor setup I’ve been everywhere. From a single tiny 15" laptop to 4 screens + TV. But currently I’m at two monitor setup and even seriously considering one 32" 4K monitor setup. The thing about the multi-monitor setup is that it is misleading feeling about boosted productivity, because you “control” more things at once. In reality, you get more distracted from your current particular task. But most users doesn’t recognize that. I figured that out when suddenly one of my screens went into dark and I was lazy enough not to deal with that. Instead I just worked on a single screen for several weeks or even months. And you know… i liked it! At any single given time i have only one task in front of me. And the key for this comfort was customized key binds on my home row for quick workspace switch. I can navigate all my workspaces in a split second. Back and forward. I am huge proponent of mastering your keyboard and tailoring your navigation around the OS. Everything should be in the right place for no-effort execution. If navigation is pain for you, you will look for the things like 4 to 6 monitor setups which is just awful. ...