Yorgos Saslis
  • Controlling your Garage Door from your Phone

    How to convert your existing garage door, so you can operate it from your mobile phone

    November 15, 2022 - 5 minute read -
  • How-to: Smart Roller Shutters

    How to convert your existing roller shutters, so you can operate them from your mobile phone

    October 26, 2022 - 4 minute read -
  • I will never work for you

    A list of industry sectors that I would never like to work for.

    July 25, 2022 - 2 minute read -
  • Effective Meetings

    Many meetings are a pain. But the principles below take most of that pain away!

    January 10, 2022 - 2 minute read -
  • What’s up with Web3 ?

    A lot of hype around web3, but also promising developments around decentralization!

    January 6, 2022 - 3 minute read -
  • No DMs For Work Tasks

    This post explains why you should 'never' discuss about work tasks using Direct/Private Messages (DM/PM)!

    August 12, 2021 - 3 minute read -
  • Announcing your Availability in Slack

    If your team forces you to send a message in some slack channel when you leave your keyboard (or if you have colleagues that do this), this post is for you.

    March 31, 2021 - 5 minute read -
    Focus
  • Acronyms Are Dead! Long Live Acronyms!

    Acronyms are a pain, but also useful. See how you can get the best of both worlds, so you can both type less and save others having to understand obscure acronyms!

    March 9, 2021 - 1 minute read -
    Focus
  • How-to Create Focus: My Routine

    If you are struggling to focus on a specific work task, and are drowned by ~notifications~ interruptions, you might want to consider a routine that helps you avoid them.

    March 4, 2021 - 5 minute read -
    Focus
  • Working Remotely, From a Virtual Office

    Even if you don't miss working in an office, there must be *some* parts of office work that you *do* miss, right? A virtual office may help with those.

    March 1, 2021 - 8 minute read -
  • Time for some rest

    September 22, 2019 - 2 minute read -
    Open Source Community DevStaff
  • SoCraTes UK 2019: Reflections

    June 11, 2019 - 12 minute read -
    Open Space Unconference Software Craft Software Testing Programming
  • Which Jenkins plugin provides pipeline step X?

    When writing a Jenkins pipeline, have you ever wondered if the pipeline steps you're using are built-in, or provided by a jenkins plugin?

    April 23, 2019 - 2 minute read -
    Continuous Integration Jenkins Software Testing
  • Developing Jenkins shared libraries and pipelines, in parallel

    How do you develop a Jenkins shared library and a Jenkins pipeline using it, at the same time?

    February 11, 2019 - 5 minute read -
    Continuous Integration Jenkins Software Testing
  • Live Stream your Local Meetup (for cheap)

    January 15, 2019 - 3 minute read -
    Open Source Community DevStaff
  • A Dev Env for Jenkins Pipelines

    January 2, 2019 - 6 minute read -
    Jenkins Continuous Integration Software Testing Productivity Open Source
  • Run locally installed NPM binaries without installing globally

    I try to avoid installing things on my laptop. Installing NPM binaries globally, just because some project needs them, is bad form...

    December 23, 2018 - 2 minute read -
    NPM Bash
  • PGP with Protonmail and Keybase

    A quick guide on how to set up PGP on Protonmail, using Keybase

    November 21, 2018 - 2 minute read -
    Privacy Technology
  • Groovy SDK is not configured with IntelliJ + Homebrew Groovy

    i.e. how to tell IntelliJ where the Groovy SDK has been installed by Homebrew. Hint: it’s a 'hidden' path and IntelliJ doesn’t see that by default.

    August 21, 2018 - 3 minute read -
    Open Source Community DevStaff
  • What’s wrong with estimates?

    Nothing... Apart from pretty much everything with the way we use them...

    February 20, 2018 - 10 minute read -
    Productivity Programming Agile Software Development
  • GitHub for Managing Offline Communities

    We all know GitHub as a great online collaboration tool for software projects. But what if we tried to use it to run an offline community?

    October 23, 2017 - 7 minute read -
    Open Source Community DevStaff
  • Why are back seats so rubbish?

    I think cars with 4 seats have a major design flaw everyone ignores: their back seats. They simply don’t work.

    September 18, 2017 - 3 minute read -
    Random Ideas Design Usability
  • 10 days without a Smartphone

    September 11, 2017 - 5 minute read -
    Productivity Mobile Focus Random Thoughts
  • Why is Why Not the Greatest Question of All Time?

    August 23, 2017 - 4 minute read -
    Philosophy Random Thoughts
  • On Privacy and... Doors

    August 3, 2017 - 5 minute read -
    Philosophy Technology Privacy
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