Leon Pahole

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My Productivity Setup as a Software Engineer

7 minProductivityEngineering

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I've spent the last year improving the way I work as a software engineer. I applied a lot of small improvements to the way I worked with the computer, which ultimately made a big difference in my productivity. I am able to deliver results faster without sacrificing quality. I'm sharing these tips here - I hope they can inspire you to embark on your own productivity journey!

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Managing Perfectionism in Software Engineering

10 minMindset

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Perfectionism is a double-edged sword - depending on the situation, it can be a great asset or a liability that holds us back. In this article, I share my experience with perfectionism as a software engineer, and how I'm learning to control it so it doesn't control me.

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Handling stressful situations, part 3: The retrospective

8 minMindset

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This blog post is part of a series on how I handle stressful and difficult situations to stay calm and collected, perform to the best of my abilities, and grow from the experience. In this post, I discuss the retrospective that I conduct after a stressful situation, which helps me to learn from the experience and grow.

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Handling stressful situations, part 1: The Preparation Routine

9 minMindset

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This blog post is part of a series on how I handle stressful and difficult situations to stay calm and collected, perform to the best of my abilities, and grow from the experience. In this post, I discuss my preparation routine, which takes place before a stressful event - whether it's minutes, hours, or days away.

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Cultivating the adaptable mindset

5 minMindset

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The adaptable mindset is the idea that one should be confident in what they can learn. The idea applies to all walks of life, but for me, it was the most useful in my career as a web developer. In this blog post, I've detailed how having an adaptable mindset helps me deal with negative emotions, how I back it with action and, perhaps most importantly, why I find joy in it.

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Productivity bit: workspace alias

2 minProductivity

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Over the years I've realized that small - perhaps even trivial - productivity improvements can really add up to produce an efficient work environment. I call these improvements productivity bits. In today's blog post, I am sharing the productivity bit that helps me kickstart my work on a certain workspace.

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How I handle frontend errors

13 minProgrammingClean codeFrontend

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Programmers disagree on many things, but one thing we can all get behind is that error handling is important. This blog post showcases how I handle frontend errors, associated with API calls, in a way that is readable, maintainable, and easy to use.

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