Posts tagged as "productivity"

A Clean Way to Mock Upstream APIs Inside Your BFF Service
6 min

When developing against a Backend-For-Frontend (BFF), stale or filtered upstream data can halt frontend progress. This post explores three approaches to mocking data that allows developers to swap real API clients for deterministic local JSON fixtures

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Story Points Aren't the Problem
3 min

Sprint planning shouldn’t be a time suck. Learn how story points get misused—and how to fix the process for good.

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Level Up Your Pull Requests: The Value of Individual Commits
9 min

Uncover the secrets to effective pull requests. From clear histories to efficient reviews, find out why this is a must for every developer.

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Unlock your career's potential with effective 1:1 meetings
3 min

Navigating 1:1 meetings might seem daunting initially, but you'll soon become a pro with effective preparation and thoughtful questions

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Making Code Reviews Stress free by adapting Netlify's feedback ladders
2 min

Code reviews can be stressful for both parties. An opinionated adaption of the Feedback Ladders from Netlify to make reviews code stress free.

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Essential Plugins for JetBrains Rider plugins
1 min

JetBrains Rider has a rich plugin ecosystem, many of which are bundled at installation time. Here is a list of plugins I like to add on top of them

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Increasing Productivity with No-Meeting Days
4 min

How can we implement no-meeting days in our workplaces so that people do not lose focus because of meetings and get uninterrupted time to do their job

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How to set up the project properties for Source Generators
2 min

A guide to setting up the project properties that we need to create and use source generators

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'Codinators.XunitHelpers Nuget Package: Update 2
1 min

This release adds an auto approver to automatically update the approval files generated by ApprovalTests.Net

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Codinators.XunitHelpers Nuget Package: Update 1
0 min

This release adds support for reporting multiple assertion failures in one method in xUnit tests

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New Release: Codinators.XunitHelpers Nuget Package
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The 1st Release of Codinators.XunitHelpers adds support for loading test data from a JSON file for xUnit Tests

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How to export highlights and annotations from a Kobo Aura
1 min

Exporting annotations/highlights from a Kobo can be a pain. Luckily, there is a setting which you can use to easily export them to a txt file.

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Should you make an Impossible List or a Bucket List?
2 min

What is an impossible list? How is it different from a Bucket List? Let's find out

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