Written by Leon Pahole
•In this blog post I present my thoughts on how ChatGPT can revolutionalize the software development education system and how it is already changing the way we learn and think as developers.
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•Exercise - we all know we have to do it, but the thought of spending hours upon hours in the gym doing painful and intense exercises doesn't exactly sound the most inviting. Still, I kept up with a pretty intense exercise routine for many years - until I decided to bring it down a notch. I made my workouts shorter and less intense, which made me the healthiest I've ever been. But how? It sounds paradoxical - shouldn't exercising less make me less healthy?
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•A short retrospective of my learning journey in 2022 and plans for 2023.
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•JavaScript's ES modules are a great way to organize code into separate files and keep the code clean. I have noticed however that as projects get larger, it gets harder and harder to keep mental track of the code and assign proper names to identifiers. In this blog post, I present TypeScript namespaces as one of the solutions to this problem.
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•There's a lot of conflicting information about code comments in programming communities. Some people believe in writing comments as much as possible, while others advocate for code that is self-documenting and thus renders comments almost useless. In this blog post I lay out my past experiences with comments and how these experiences shaped my current approach to writing clear and understandable code.
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•Sitting properly is difficult - I've been struggling with it for most of my life. This blog post describes steps I've taken so far to improve my sitting posture.
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•In this blog post I'll be detailing my journey through finding a good window management solution, while also describing an important concept underlying all productivity-boosting techniques.
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•Enums are a great way to restrict values of variables to a limited set of chosen constants. This makes the code more readable and less error-prone, as we no longer need to use magic numbers. However, enums can also cause our code to become hard to read and maintain as our codebase expands. In this blog post I describe how I solve these concerns in TypeScript.
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•The typical programmer stereotype is humorous, but it can also be used as a justification for bad habits. In my case, this sprung out of control until I could no longer take it and became honest with myself. The blog post details the beginning of my ongoing journey from a typical programmer to a healthy, productive programmer.
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•This is a story of how over the years my life naturally gravitated towards simplicity, starting with my career, and then propagating into my everyday life.
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