By Chris on September 28, 2021
Back when I started using google doc (2008?) I made a doc of ideas that pop into my heads that either would be cool to try or at least see the light of day. In 2014, I think I’ve stopped updating it because I’ve reached more than 365 ideas and later made a part two […]
Posted in ideas | Tagged hackernews, ideas, reddit |
By Chris on August 7, 2021
Jerry Seinfeld popularized the “don’t break the chain” (streak) productivity hack. In an interview, Jerry explained how he came up with his joke. By writing a joke every day and by keeping a streak of how many days he did. “Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing […]
Posted in inspiration, productivity | Tagged don't break the chain, Jerry Seinfeld, productivity, The Practice |
By Chris on July 31, 2021
I’ve talked about the law of 100 in recently. The #The100DayProject take it to the next level by including a consistency and an accountability component. What is the 100 day project? The 100 Day Project is a free creative project that takes place online. Every end of January, thousands of people all around the world […]
Posted in inspiration, productivity, tips | Tagged creativity, The 100 days project, the law of 100 |
By Chris on July 25, 2021
I recently watched a youtube video of Noah Kagan about an interesting idea he call the law of 100. The name of the law is self-descriptive, you need to do something one hundred times to know if it worth it or if it will get traction. Doing it a 100 time give you the opportunity […]
Posted in link, productivity, tips | Tagged lawOf100, Noah Kagan, productivity, Seth Godin, Sinbad, The 100 days project, tips |
By Chris on July 8, 2021
Awhile ago, I’ve decided to read 100 books before I hit forty. I’ve already read about 34 books in the last two years when I’ve decided to do this challenge and I think four years were remaining before the dreaded forty. Now that I have forty I just wanted to post the list out there […]
Posted in book | Tagged book, books, List |
By Chris on July 1, 2021
Sometimes the deadline is yesterday or sometimes your boss wants the change now. Maybe the clients have an important feature that he thought he could do without dev but realised one day before the big marketing splash what he wanted to do is not working. These changes are easy, no problem. I will do it […]
Posted in db, prog, rant, tips | Tagged rant, reflexion |
By Chris on June 22, 2021
There is a 70 M lottery draw this week plus 70 one million prizes, I know this is no powerball, but here in Canada we are pretty excited. Even my wife is like: “We need to buy a ticket”. And she bought one with her father because 35M is still an insane amount of money. […]
Posted in rant | Tagged lottery |
By Chris on June 17, 2021
In the previous post, we discuss own we change from using mongorepository to using directly mongodb method to access and modify directly the object in db.In this posts we look at code that was deleting with mongorepository and change it to use directly mongodb method with MongoTemplate. Using MongoTemplate is faster and less likely to […]
Posted in java, mongodb, prog, tips | Tagged java, mongodb, MongoRepository, MongoTemplate |
By Chris on June 10, 2021
We had at work a piece of code that was using mongorepository and updating the arrays of the object on a collection instead of using mongodb method directly.The way it was coded had a big issues with concurrency and we were losing update because of it.The problem we had with the way it was updating […]
Posted in java, mongodb, prog, tips | Tagged java, mongodb, MongoRepository, MongoTemplate |
By Chris on May 30, 2021
At the beginning of 2020, I wanted to read more than my abysmal 2019 three books total. I’ve already read my 2019 total before the whole 2020 ‘situation’ hit. This made it harder for me to read since I was stuck at home most of 2020 and I usually read in my commute. Nonetheless, I […]
Posted in book | Tagged 2020, book, books, List, reviews |
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