UX Design
Design: Should “cancel” be on the left or right?
Why some conflict in our team is caused by conflicting guidelines of Apple, Microsoft and Google
Wouter Lindenhof
Leadership
A critical aspect of team leadership: The vocabulary
How a slight change in our language can have a considerable effect. Why should you ask about the level of confidence instead of certainty?
Programming advice
Programming Flow considered harmful
Why being in the flow can yield negative results
Programming advice
Grenade-based programming: Throw, but never catch 🧨
Why removing catch-statements in code can dramatically improve the quality of our software. The difference between expecting and preventing exceptions.
Leadership
The cause of conflict between developers and sales
Developers who complain about sales need help understanding what their purpose is. Spoiler it doesn't involve your technical skillset. So let's fix that!
Tutorial
Updating mastodon (v4.0.2 to v4.1.2)
💡These steps are based on updating from v4.0.2 to v4.1.2. And is based on my installation (instructions are here). Hopefully you might get some use out of this if you need to update your machine, but I make no promises. Login on the machine using ssh
Estimation
Intro to estimation
Estimation is an important part of software development. It helps us understand the number of resources needed to complete a task, and it helps us plan which tasks should be done first. Estimations can also help us improve efficiency by allowing us to allocate resources in the most effective way.
Tutorial
Enable swap on linux
Since I keep forgetting how to enable swap (the ability to use your harddrive as extra ram). Instructions Log in using SSH fallocate -l 2G /swapfile1 chown root:root /swapfile1 chmod 0600 /swapfile1 mkswap /swapfile1 swapon /swapfile1 vi /etc/fstab # See content below (you can also use nano or another
Tutorial
Updating mastodon (v3.5.3 to v4.0.1)
⚠️This update was a bit problematic because my machine didn't have enough memory (my machine has 1GB) and that same day v4.0.2 came out. Still, this were all the steps I had to perform. These are the steps to upgrade mastodon from v3.5.3 to
Tutorial
Mastodon server tutorial
A step by step tutorial to create your own mastodon server (including screenshots) on Digital Ocean. It includes the mail server and the S3 bucket for images. A quick note: This tutorial was written for v3.5.3 and minutes after writing it a new version of Mastodon arrives. Preparing