State of Progress

Attention is in the past.

Planning is overrated.

Our code reviews are direct, non-personal and honest.

Instead of planning, we would rather "Zappa" things.

The retort to perfectionism is well-defined high standards that, once surpassed, signal it's time to put the work out.

Simplifying a system means completely removing a part of it.

Talking a lot is easy.

There are two kinds of slow: unintentional, where things spiral out of control, and intentional, where slowness is a trade-off for a better outcome.

Pulses is the GitHub App that helps your team get aligned by replacing recurring meetings, like daily stand-ups, with scheduled GitHub discussions.

Expanding on that statement, companies rarely talk about building resilience by overcoming failures in business.

There is something deeply human and intimate about putting your signature on your work implying a direct moral responsibility for its results.

There is no "soft deadline" — there either is a deadline or not.

At LOGIC everyone has a field of expertise, along with sufficient understanding of the whole stack

Customers should feel like they are the only ones you have to deal with when they need your company.

We are excited to announce that we are looking to hire an intern to kick off our marketing operations at LOGIC.

Supermarket software houses claim to provide all sorts of solutions.

We are super excited to announce ergani.

Teams often spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to make their work shiny and impressive, rather than get the basics right and just make it work great for its purpose.

Two weeks ago we talked about vendor lock‑in at the Docker Athens meetup.

I had two incidents last week that, from opposite directions, pointed out to me the importance of being able to export my data from the applications I am using.

My sister and I have been working on a family software project for a while now.

I have already talked about the .

There is one thing I deeply love about the United States and always enjoy while being there.

Last month, we held our fourth company meet-up, where most of our small team got together and worked in person from our office for a whole week.

We are super excited today to announce ; an open source project we have been working on for a while in LOGIC.

“It does not work, and I do not know why!

This is a special day.

A couple of months ago I ran into an issue with a car I rented, that quite much resembled a regular situation in software.

For the last few years I take considerable vacation every August — 2 weeks minimum.

Getting distracted by the very same tools you use to do your job in your every day work is really new to our species.

We are thrilled to announce that we are looking to hire a Web Developer at LOGIC.

A few weeks ago I ordered a cab through an app to get me back to my hotel from a visit at a friend's house in London.

nior Web Developer at LOGIC, the new company through which and are pursuing exciting projects.

A whole lot of things happen at work these days — mostly good ones.

I love the idea of the minimum viable product.

There is this postmodern motivational advice that I seriously despise; “Surround yourself with people better than you”.

A fundamental skill in software development is realising when you have to relinquish control and actually doing it.

Yesterday I witnessed impolite behavior by an contributor.

Every so often, I see developers getting excited about something new that just came up.

It’s been lots of years since I found any new app and enjoyed using it.

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about how things can go wrong when creating a user interface.

In May 2017 I bought a couple of tickets for a Premier League game from a very popular ticket selling website.

Let’s get straight to the point; choose an SQL database for your web application.

Anyone who has ever contributed code in a collaborative software project, had hard time doing so at some point.

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