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Going back to school to study math
Sat Aug 02 2025 ~ Tags: ramblings info careerI'm going back to school to study mathematics! In this ramblings-style article I will talk a bit about the what, why and so on.
Read more..My life isn't going anywhere - wishing my life had meaning
Mon Oct 21 2024 ~ Tags: opinions ramblings careerToday I'm going to talk about failure, or at least failure as perceived by yourself. This is my blog after all, so some posts with me talking about the sad realities of life is allowed. This is probably more in the rambling category than any other thing I have written. It is also way more personal, so I understand if some of you want to skip this one.
Read more..Want to get a job as a backend developer? - Learn these topics now!
Fri Aug 18 2023 ~ Tags: programming career java kotlin enterpriseSometimes I get questions on how to learn the skills necessary to get a backend programmer job. That is exactly my aim for this article: to give you a set of terms, keywords and knowledge to get started on your journey. My hope is that you know what you need to learn after reading on.
Read more..Books that boost your programming career (Java developer edition)
Mon Sep 07 2020 ~ Tags: java books enterprise career programmingIn this article I will share some books that helped me most in the beginning of my professional career. Even though I have programmed in my spare time for many years before getting a job, I think that programming in an enterprise is way different! Learning to cooperate with more people, reviewing code, seeing patterns in code, bigger codebases. tools and technologies that you may not use on your own, and so on! The books I will share are mostly technology agnostic, as I think patterns help way more than learning specific libraries, frameworks and tools. Learning about design patterns, how to write clean code, and how to write maintainable code are far more useful than learning many different tools and libraries. Why? Because when you learn patterns, you will see these patterns in many new libraries and tools you learn, and therefore learn them faster! I will also say that learning to think differently can help a lot, because it makes it easier for you to learn new things in the future.
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