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In my programming team, it’s pretty common to use two monitors (sometimes one is turned vertical) along with a laptop as a third screen.

But I usually stick to just one screen and switch between them using keyboard shortcuts or hot corners instead.

What about you? What do you prefer, and why?

Right now, I work in a flexible way: I usually have to be in the office, but I can work from home some days when I want or need to. The workplace isn’t toxic, and I don’t really have any major complaints.

Still, I’m thinking about quitting and finding a full-remote job. The main reason is to save around 2-3 hours each day and spend that time with my family instead. It’s not just the commute time; things like “mandatory social events,” such as long lunches that last 45-60 minutes, also take up time.

Of course, changing jobs is always risky. You never know how the new boss or coworkers will be or what the new codebase will look like.

For those of you who have already made the switch to full remote, what are your thoughts and experiences?

I will start a webshop and looking for recommendations of advertising my products. I have heard many stories of an online business was suddenly banned by Google or Meta so they lost 100% of purchases, because that was the only one source of their customers.

Do you expect recession or growth? Do you expect escalation of the current war conflicts? Do you expect the EU/US or the Chinese/Russian economy prevails?

Me and my coworker follow a totally different pattern while programming. Probably there are a better technical term for that, but I call it now positive pattern and negative pattern.

I prefer the following way (in controllers, etc.):

  function ($param)
  {
    if ($param is not valid) {
      return false
    }

    // do the stuff

    return true;
  }

While my coworker does the opposite:

  function ($param)
  {
    if ($param is valid) {
      // do the stuff

      return true;
    }

    return false
  }

We agreed that none of them is good or wrong, just different approach. I am curious, how do you do, what are your thoughts, pros and cons?

One of the biggest mysteries in my life is those little blue "Prioritaire" stickers on the mail envelopes.

Let´s imagine, a bunch of mail arrives to the distributor center. Some of them has priority, the others not. In order to get know, which ones have to be delivered with priority, they need to check all mail, one by one, for the little blue sticker. Technically it is simply possible, to create two stack of mails: prio och normal.

But what´s next? Do they intentionally pause delivering the normal ones, just for deliver the prios earlier? I don´t think so. Once the mails are allocated to the mailman, there is no rational reason to NOT deliver them all at the same time.

And if this is right: what do I get for my money when I purchase priority?

Prices of the electricity in the EU recently became sky high, and people should save as much kWh as possible.

I could not find any related and trustable calculation about how much electricity consumes a Wifi router. Especially I am curious about the difference between the idle mode and when I downloading with full bandwith.

I believe there is no significant difference (and it doesn´t even matter at all, while freezers and heatings are on), but it would be nice to know.

Every time I am reading blog posts about "how to become a great developer", or "what´s the difference between a good and a great developer", I am marvelling the self-confidence of the author. Or better to say: I am wondering if I should have better self-confidence too?

During my 20 years of work experience as a developer, I´ve never felt that I am a great. Neither good. Maybe good enough, or good-ish. And it depends of many factors. First, I always know some guys, who are better than me. One is coding quicker, the other does not need so much googling or checking documentations during work, the next one has better code structure, and so on.

I always had/have multiple leveled lists in my head, what I need to improve. To write tests. To change Js to Ts. To practice quicker typing. To create better snippets. To learn better focusing. I could continue the list...

I don´t think I can tag myself as "great" until the list is done. Do these bloggers?