ZenTasktic – The Pivot

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It’s always nice to look back at your life and see that some of your actions are still making sense, so to speak. Or, to be more precise, it’s nice to revisit some projects that you put on hold and get that feeling of “well, there’s something about this project, you know?”. That’s the feeling … Read more

Using Artificial Intelligence To Generate Blog Posts – An Experiment And A Few Use Cases

This year I focused on learning as much as I could in areas related to my current job – programming, that is. More specifically, I wanted to ramp up my skills in blockchain and artificial intelligence. As some of you probably know already, I have a constant activity in a few blockchain projects out there, … Read more

5 Things I Learned From Reviving An Almost Dead Project

It’s official, the latest version of WPSumo, 1.1.5, is up and ready for download. It’s also the first release after I took on this project, last year. As you may imagine this wasn’t an easy ride. As a matter of fact it was way more time consuming than I initially thought. Here are my thoughts … Read more

7 Life Lessons From A Self-Taught Programmer

I always had a thing with languages. For some reason, I always found it easy to learn them, and had a great time using them. Surprisingly enough, I followed a tech high-school, majoring with a diploma as a programmer in… FORTRAN. After that, I went to the University of Letters in Bucharest, where I studied … Read more

Managing Online Projects in 5 Easy Steps

You have clients, deadlines and tons of work to do. You have to deliver results and stay on top of your lists. You have to be productive. Otherwise you’re out of the game. And being out of the game is not fun. I had an online business for more than 10 years and I pretty … Read more

Assess – Decide – Do for Programming

Assess – Decide – Do is a simple life management framework. Despite its somehow pompous acronym, ADD is overwhelmingly simple, so simple that you may even overlook it. Every ADD cycle is based only on 3 fundamental activities: assess, decide and do. And since we’re going to talk about ADD and programming, we can borrow … Read more