I can assume that each programmer has their favorite tools. During my career, I’ve gathered a lot of tools that I’ve added to my tool belt. I have been using some of them for a long time, and I am not planning to change them. Some tools are used only…

The current story is different from the ones I usually write. I believe I have a good reason for that: I would like to thank you all. The people who are reading my stories, the people who find them interesting enough to click follow button — Thank you! My journey…

It’s all about avoiding the unnecessary. — I remember at least two cases in my career when creating too much code turned out to be a bad strategy. And I am not talking about over-engineering. On the surface, business was looking good, then someone decided that a certain problem should be solved by writing custom software. …

Introduction In this story, I will demonstrate how to build a simple CLI (Command-Line Interface) application with SQLite as the underlying data storage. I will try to do a simple task management application and demonstrate the basic concepts behind it. …

Prerequisites Problem description In this story, we will tackle the following problem: generating a massive amount of PDF files with the same structure, but with different data for each. Of course, we will be using python to achieve that. Python packages jinja2 weasyprint PyYAML You should install the libraries mentioned above…

I had a thought recently that writing tools by yourself is a refreshing experience, it allows you to go outside your day-to-day work, and at the same time, it helps you to learn new things. This learning process can be really exciting, sometimes close to frustration, sometimes close to euphoria…

Intro When I was a younger developer I often sat in front of my PC and randomly pick some python official documentation articles (I’m still doing it, but with lower frequency). …

Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials. The quote mentioned above comes from Scrum Guide because reducing waste is essential for the Scrum framework. Nevertheless, in my opinion, we should avoid waste in all circumstances, no matter if you are a Scrum acolyte or an opponent. In this…

10 commandments of programming — 1. You will pick one programming language You will learn and master one programming language, you will stick to it, and you will claim things like: “Java is faster than Python”, “C is the best programming language”, can be applied to other tools and services too: “MySQL is much better than PostgreSQL”, “Vim is the best IDE…