State of Progress
Pragmatic articles on software development and management
Getting the basics right
Teams often spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to make their work shiny and impressive, rather than get the basics right and just make it work great for its purpose.
Consultant lock‑in
Two weeks ago we talked about vendor lock‑in at the Docker Athens meetup. What about consultant lock-in as you move to bare metal?
Give users their data
I had two incidents last week that, from opposite directions, pointed out to me the importance of being able to export my data from the applications I am using.
Less assumptions, more resilience
My sister and I have been working on a family software project for a while now. In this context, we employ a tool developed by one of our clients at , while also actively contributing to it. As my sister attempted to use it last Friday, suddenly a .
A few thoughts on extroversion
There is one thing I deeply love about the United States and always enjoy while being there. It is the extroversion of people. They talk about what they do in work and life in general, they celebrate it and also want to hear accordingly from you as well. It’s truly remarkable and invigorating.
Faraday cages for focus
I have already talked about the . To improve my focus, being quite of a systematic person, I try to recognise the indicators of the quality of my focus and the conditions, under which it flourishes or struggles.
What is the trade-off?
Last month, we held our fourth company meet-up, where most of our small team got together and worked in person from our office for a whole week.
It only works if you know why
“It does not work, and I do not know why! Now it works and I still do not know why!”
Django Prose: Wonderful rich text content editing for Django
We are super excited today to announce ; an open source project we have been working on for a while in LOGIC. Django Prose makes it extremely easy to work with rich-text content in Django, our web framework of choice. Let’s take a deeper look into this.
LAUNCH: Vaulty
This is a special day. We are extremely excited today to launch Vaulty, along with its first subscription offering “Vaulty Personal”. Vaulty is the easiest way to receive end-to-end encrypted sensitive information.
No one cares that "An error occurred"
A couple of months ago I ran into an issue with a car I rented, that quite much resembled a regular situation in software.