Again? It’s the end of the year? I almost forget to sit down calmly and look back. It was a fruitful year with lots of fun and challenges. In short: My second child, my son, Daniel was born ...

Recently I read this post from John Hotterbeek about the burning question of how much you should learn to keep up with your career. To sum up what John wrote about: According to Uncle Bob, you...

Reading through Scott Meyer’s Efective Modern C++ helped me discover a lot of features of modern C++, including right value references, the trailing return type declaration and lambda expressions. ...

One of my favourite hobbies is reading. Even as a father of two small children, I try to find some time every day to read either before the others wake up or after they went to sleep or sometimes a...

I think I’m better in time management than the average, so to further improve this skill, I went to a time management training of John B. May. It was a one-day training about how we should reconque...

In one of my previous articles, I wrote about Scott Meyer’s Effective Modern C++ and that with its focus on C++11/14 it’s like discovering a completely new language. I already wrote about trailing ...

In his first book, Ramit Sethi shares his own vision about personal finance. It’s not just yet another book on how to spend less and save more money as he doesn’t believe in a frugal life. Besides,...

Team buildings - what are they for? Why do they exist? Who should pay for them? When should they happen? What about afterworks? People can be very opinionated on this topic, and it’s quite a comp...

Beginning of this year I came back to a C++ developer position and we are making or final steps towards complete a migration to (among others) C++11 and I decided to level up my knowledge. It’s alm...

I came across Nassim Taleb’s name and The Black Swan several times reading the books and articles of some modern Stoics and some motivational writers. When I mentioned to one of my best friends tha...