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Developer’s Notebook on YouTube

Developer’s Notebook now has its own channel on YouTube which will feature its podcast and nerdy videos.

August 12, 2020

Podcast #1: Coping with Long Meetings at Work

The very first episode of the Developer’s Notebook Podcast will explore a topic I have already written about: coping with long meetings at work. It is a deeply personal topic for me, but I am certainly not alone when it comes to my difficulties with long meetings. I often feel anxious, stressed and distracted. They often leave me so exhausted that I am not able to work properly afterwards. In this episode, I will go into a bit more detail than I did in the written article and also share a few horror stories from my own, personal meeting-experience.

August 11, 2020

Windows 95 as an Electron App

An operating system that was released 25 years ago and required an entire computer to run can now instead be run in a browser window with an interpreted language.

August 6, 2020

Debugging Node.js Remotely with Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a tool with many talents. Among those is the ability to not just debug Node.js applications, but also to debug them remotely.

August 4, 2020

Developer’s Notebook on Social Media

Developer’s Notebook is now on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and GitHub.

August 1, 2020

Using Modern Technology to Upgrade Retro Computers

The internet is rife with tutorials of people upgrading old computers with modern technology. How much sense does that make and is it reasonable?

August 1, 2020

Coping with Long Meetings at Work

Meetings have always been the worst part about any job for me. They make me anxious and stress me out so I have developed strategies for coping with them.

July 22, 2020

Using Redis Sentinel with Docker and Marathon

Using Redis Sentinel with Docker and Marathon is a relatively complex procedure that requires every instance of Redis to be able to communicate with all other instances.

July 17, 2020

Using Redis Sentinel with Docker Compose

This article describes how to create a failover solution using Redis Sentinel and Docker Compose.

July 13, 2020

Picking a Programming Language

With so many different programming languages available, it is not always easy to choose the right one for a project. In this article, we will explore some basic criteria for picking the right one.

July 7, 2020

Retro Software: BeOS

In the early-1990s, a lesser-known operating system was born named BeOS. It was an operating system that was ahead of its time, but was never able to gather much support.

July 1, 2020

Emulating Mac OS 9 on macOS 10.15

Several years ago, I bought an old, colorful iMac G3 running Mac OS 9. It runs my old software wonderfully, but an emulated version of Mac OS 9 on my modern MacBook Pro is just so much more convenient.

June 27, 2020