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EU Trip 2023 | Rewind, Stats & Learning

Almost two months, my first real travel that went over two weeks. I saw a lot, experienced a lot and travelled a lot. This is a recap of the highlights for me, some stats and what stayed in my memory. The intention behind this post is to provide some insights,

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EU-Trip 2023 | Week 12 (28.04 – 30.04)

It's already week 12 of my trip, following the post about week 11. This will also be the last diary entry as it's the last week. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. What

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EU-Trip 2023 | Week 10 (18.04 – 22.04)

It's already week 10 of my trip, following the post about week 9. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 18.04 – Travel to & first day in Budapest Woke up pretty early, slept not too

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EU-Trip 2023 | Week 11 (23.04 – 27.04)

It's already week 11 of my trip, following the post about week 10. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 23.04 – An afternoon in Ljubljana I got up right before my alarm, showered and checked

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EU-Trip 2023 | Week 9 (13.04 – 17.04)

It's already week 9 of my trip, following the post about week 8. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 13.04 – A day in Bialystok I hadn't planned much for Bialystok, just washing

EU-Trip 2023 | Week 8 (08.04 – 12.04)

It's already week 8 of my trip, following the post about week 7. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 08.04 – A day in Tallinn & Travel to Riga The last day in Tallinn. Since

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EU-Trip 2023 | Week 7 (03.04 – 07.04)

It's already week 7 of my trip, following the post about week 6. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 03.04 – A long day in Åland First, strictly said it was yesterday, the tax-free

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EU-Trip 2023 | Week 6 (29.03 – 02.04)

It's already week 6 of my trip, following the post about week 5. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 29.03 – Travelling to Bergen & Exploring the city center Getting up too late, having to

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EU-Trip 2023 | Week 5 (24.03 – 28.03)

It's already week 5 of my trip, following the post about week 4. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 24.03 – Last day in the Netherlands Today is already the last day in the Netherlands.

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EU-Trip 2023 | Week 4 (18.03 – 23.03)

It's already week 4 of my trip, following the post about week 3. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. For the UK part, Gabriel, a friend of mine, joined. So expect him to be part

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EU-Trip 2023 | Week 3 (13.03 – 17.03)

It's already week 3 of my trip, following the post about week 2. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. For the UK part, Gabriel, a friend of mine, will join. So expect him to be

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EU-Trip 2023 | Week 2 (08.03 – 12.03)

It's already week 2 of my trip, following the post about week 1. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 08.03 Zürich Today was the first day in Zürich where I could explore the city

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EU-Trip 2023 | Prep & Week 1 (01.03 – 07.03)

Here we go, week one! As promised in the post, “It's finally time for an adventure” the first week of my kind of travel blog / diary. While writing this, realized that 7 days are too much for a blog post, so will keep it short and reducing to

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Things that no one tells you when starting your first full-time job, but are so valuable

So, when I started my first full-time job, everything was super exciting. I thought, okay, I will give 120% from the start. Hyped and ready to rock this show. But there are a few things that no one told me and I didn't expect. While my first

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Make frontend to microservice communication great again

Your frontend is still stuck on a monolithic architecture, while your backend seems to get increasingly distributed? Do you see yourself doing too many API calls in your frontend, maybe even worsening it with different structures? Then this is for you. Abstract it away The first and easiest way is

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You should push your (IDE) config to version control — and here is why

Many gitignore files are full of ignores, for our IDEs and editors. Is it Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, or even vim? But why are we excluding all files, many even consider it as a bad practice having them in the project at all! Make setup for new devs easier The

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Will AI replace our jobs?

Recently, there has been a lot of news around ChatGPT and DALL-E. Both really impressive projects, pushing what's currently possible and for the very first time making it as easy as just writing a few lines of plain text. My fifty cents and opinion on the topic.

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It's finally time for an adventure

After years of COVID-19 and personal limitations that stopped me from finally start travelling, the time has come! What is it going to be? It's going to be a trip across a few different countries in March & April this year. To name them all: * Belgium * Luxembourg

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Build a self-contained shell installer

Have you ever had yourself in the situation where you want to have a one-in-all installer for stuff on *nix-systems or macOS? I got you covered. What are we going to build? The idea is simple, you have an installer, which also includes your files, what? Exactly!

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Remote work is cool – A few tips after working remote for almost 3 years to keep it that way

Remote work, for many of us the corona pandemic enabled us a complete new way of working and also living. I, personally, enjoy the freedom of being able to work from home. No struggle getting to work every day, and you just get so much more done. Don't

“Have you tried turning off and on again” – Explanation for the non-techies

Have you turned it on and off again? Have you tried to restart your device? — Chances are high, you already heard this before. Is it from your internet service provider or the helpdesk in your company? And in some cases this simple thing made it work again? Why is this

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Living in $HOME – Some tips to make your shell more comfy

Do you use your shell every day or would like to be more efficient with day to day task by utilizing the terminal? Then this article is for you. Entrypoint(s) There are different configuration files for your shell(s) where you can configure and customize. * /etc/profile – Loaded for

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The ultimate guide to DMARC

DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting (and) Conformance. There are plenty of resources out there but no guide bundling everything you need to know, until now! In a nutshell DMARC is a set of standards making it standardized to detect and report abuse of mail systems across providers

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Best Practices for GitHub Pull Requests

Pull Requests are there to save your day and your codebase! They are great and there are many features and best practices not everyone is aware of. To improve your work with Pull Requests for the future, I will give you a short overview of some best practices and hidden

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Bookmarklets – Powerful and almost forgotten

What the hell is a bookmarklet? If you are not familiar with it and want to know more about it, then this is for you. We are going to go through the technical basics, why there are so useful and how to create one. In a nutshell As the name