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PinkLetter - How the hell do you keep habits fun?

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How do you keep yourself motivated to keep up with your habits?

#74
November 21, 2021
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PinkLetter - Get ready to cringe

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What do you think about the following fix I deployed this week?

#73
November 14, 2021
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PinkLetter - The most important skill to manage legacy code

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#72
November 7, 2021
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PinkLetter - Upgrade those dependencies (today)

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#71
October 31, 2021
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PinkLetter - Appreciate people during retros

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#70
October 24, 2021
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PinkLetter - Reach out and help others

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#69
October 17, 2021
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PinkLetter - Talk to your users to build meaning

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#68
October 10, 2021
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PinkLetter - Let's give a hand to the community

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This week, I'll do something very unitalian of me: I'll keep it short.

#67
October 3, 2021
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PinkLetter - Tricks of the Week

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#66
September 26, 2021
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PinkLetter - Screwed a production deploy

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#65
September 19, 2021
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PinkLetter - Scratch the bleeding edge itch (on the side)

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#64
September 12, 2021
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PinkLetter - Limit work to 4 hours a day

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How many hours a day do you work?

#63
September 5, 2021
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PinkLetter - Are you a builder?

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Are you more of a builder or an owner?

#62
August 29, 2021
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PinkLetter - Your code is bad if you wrote a comment

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My Ramblings This Week

Do you write code comments?

#61
August 22, 2021
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PinkLetter - Double Down on Values

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Last week, I asked what values drive you. Today, I want to double down on the topic by sharing some of my findings.

#60
August 15, 2021
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PinkLetter - Define Your Values (or Fall Trap of Vanity Metrics)

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What values drive you?

#59
August 8, 2021
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PinkLetter - What Bent Your Mind Recently?

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What did you learn in the last few months that bent your mind?

#58
August 1, 2021
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PinkLetter - Add Async to Your Remote

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#57
July 25, 2021
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PinkLetter - Be a Good Citizen

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#56
July 18, 2021
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PinkLetter - You Probably Have Something More Important to Do

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#55
July 11, 2021
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PinkLetter - Show not Tell

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#54
July 4, 2021
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PinkLetter - Nurture Relationships

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#53
June 27, 2021
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PinkLetter - Find Motivation in Failure

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In a previous PinkLetter, I suggested you should apply for a job.

#52
June 20, 2021
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PinkLetter - Be a Professional

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#51
June 13, 2021
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PinkLetter - Apply for a Job

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#50
June 6, 2021
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PinkLetter - Crush Rockstars with Kind Generativity

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This last year, I had the privilege to work with an exceptional designer and human being.

#49
May 30, 2021
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PinkLetter - Obsessed with SQL // Postgres

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I've been obsessed with SQL // Postgres recently. Here are a few interesting things I've discovered:

#48
May 23, 2021
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PinkLetter - Write Business Logic in SQL

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#47
May 16, 2021
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PinkLetter - Timebox and Work Less

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How many hours a day do you work?

#46
May 9, 2021
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PinkLetter - Deploy Spikes to Production

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Have you deployed any spikes to production this week?

#45
May 2, 2021
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PinkLetter - Face What Sucks

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#44
April 25, 2021
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PinkLetter - Aim for 110%

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#43
April 18, 2021
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PinkLetter - Take Ownership of your Mistakes

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#42
April 11, 2021
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PinkLetter - Enable Manual Testing

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#41
April 4, 2021
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PinkLetter - Edit and Pray

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My Ramblings This Week

How do you generate a random string? Put a first year Computer Science student in Vim and ask them to save and exit.

#40
March 28, 2021
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PinkLetter - Choose Meaning Over Technology

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#39
March 21, 2021
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PinkLetter - Connect With People

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#38
March 14, 2021
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PinkLetter - What's Your Appetite?

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My Ramblings This Week

Ciao!

#37
March 7, 2021
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PinkLetter - Clean Up That Mess

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My Ramblings This Week

Ciao!

#36
February 28, 2021
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PinkLetter - Retros FTW

Ciao!

When did your team run the last retro?

We had one last week. We appreciated one another, celebrated the goods, discussed the bads, and came up with a crisp list of actionables.

#35
February 21, 2021
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PinkLetter - Solving Your Own Problems (and Messy Polish Grammar)

Ciao!

Have you ever coded a solution to a painful problem of yours?

Shockingly, I’ve never done so.

#34
February 7, 2021
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PinkLetter - Post the Wrong Answer

Ciao!

Some time ago, I wrote From Silly Questions to Innovation. You may have noticed I'm a maverick, and I like to come up with controversial ideas when solving problems. As a matter of fact, I open the post with the following story:

Ages ago I was exposed to the fast food restaurant technique. It goes something like this: when colleagues are endlessly discussing where to eat, just propose going to a cheap, bad and dirty restaurant. It removes the blocker and re-aligns people towards a resolution. And nope, normally fast food is not the pick.

#33
January 31, 2021
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PinkLetter - Async Remote Work

Ciao!

What's in your opinion the most crucial factor in remote work?

I believe asynchronicity is a big one. Having a well-specified area of responsibility and autonomy on how to perform a task is a killer combo.

#32
January 24, 2021
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PinkLetter - Design Is NOT Only For Designers

Ciao!

What comes to your mind when you read the word designer?

Recently, I enjoyed The Design Of Everyday Things. In the book, the author highlights the seven fundamental design principles:

#31
January 17, 2021
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PinkLetter - Maybe You Are Wrong

Ciao!

How do you feel when you are wrong?

You may say awful. That would be a great response. Except, it would be the answer to a different question:

#30
January 10, 2021
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PinkLetter - Coal or Candy?

Ciao!

Have you been good in twenty-twenty?

In Italy, I usually had to wait to see if the Befana brought me coal. Luckily, I live in Poland, where the answer comes earlier!

#29
January 3, 2021
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PinkLetter - Keep an Extra Chair

Ciao!

How are your holidays going?

It's kinda strange for me this year. I'm used to spending the second part of December in Italy, immersed in the same, repeating, and comforting traditions. Instead, I'm in Krakow.

#28
December 27, 2020
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PinkLetter - A Secret Link

Advent calendar chocolate box

Ciao!

How's your Advent of Code going?

#27
December 20, 2020
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PinkLetter - All Killer No Filler

Multicolored confetti

Ciao!

When I started the PinkLetter, I decided to write the newsletter I wished I could subscribe to. I wanted to escape all the noise and amplify only the signal. In the words of Sum 41, I wanted All Killer No Filler.

#26
December 13, 2020
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PinkLetter - Advent of Code

Santa's hat in ASCII art

Ciao!

I'm not a huge fan of Christmas. However, the 25th of December has always been a day I looked forward to.

#25
December 6, 2020
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