Work-related Contact As a Java developer with ten years of professional experience, I rarely need AI support. Here, AI serves more as a sparring partner to validate ideas or make small optimizations. In the frontend domain, however, it’s a different…
Personal Experiences with AI in Everyday Life For the past two years, I’ve been diving deep into various AI tools: from image and music generation to text optimization and coding assistance. Even while writing this blog post, an AI is…
Refactoring—the word alone evokes mixed feelings among many developers. Perhaps it makes you think of effort, time that doesn’t directly contribute to new features, or even unnecessary perfectionism. But refactoring is so much more. It’s the key to better, more…
The sprint retrospective is a central element of Scrum, providing your team with the opportunity to reflect on collaboration and continuously improve. But what happens when expectations for the retro become so rigid that its actual purpose—learning and growing—fades into…
Do you know the feeling of working on a piece of code that you know, deep down, isn’t good? Yet, because you or someone else has already invested a lot of time and energy into it, it’s hard to let…
The turn of the year is traditionally a time for reflection and setting new goals. Perhaps you mentally create a list or even write your goals down. However, these goals are often too vague or overly ambitious. What if you…
Two of the most well-known psychological phenomena that affect our self-perception are the Dunning-Kruger effect and Impostor Syndrome. While one leads to overconfidence, the other makes us deeply doubt our own successes and abilities. In this article, we will examine…
Software development is full of best practices, patterns, and methodologies that aim to make our work more efficient and our code more reliable. We often look to successful projects and experienced developers for guidance, trying to replicate their techniques to…
In the past few months, I got another chance to use my camera and go on an adventure to take some good photos. I usually go to work early. Sometimes, I don’t take the bus or train and drive my…
