Enter the Flow with Music to Code By

Working in the flow feels great. You are fully immersed and can spend hours focused on one single goal. However, it’s not that easy to get into this state of mind. Some use a form of meditation techniques, other listen to music. The later one sometimes worked for me, but most of the time it’s …

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The Maintenance Developer Myth

As a little distraction from writing I was procrastinating on Hacker News and Reddit. The blog post “Why are we interviewing Developers by asking Architect questions?” caught my attention and got me thinking about the term “maintenance developer”. Those mythical species of developers who are so insisting that their work is so fundamentally different from …

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