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5 best books I read in 2018

A list that surprised even me…
Bartosz Mikulski
10 Dec 2018

How to run a single test in SBT

Why testOnly does not work?
Bartosz Mikulski
07 Dec 2018

How to use Scrapy to follow links on the scraped pages

A web spider that does not follow links is not very useful, let’s fix that.
Bartosz Mikulski
05 Dec 2018

How to scrape a single web page using Scrapy in Jupyter Notebook?

Scrapy Spiders and processing pipelines 101
Bartosz Mikulski
03 Dec 2018

What is inside a Docker image?

How to unpack a Docker image
Bartosz Mikulski
30 Nov 2018

What is wrong with tech conferences?

Why are tech conferences boring?
Bartosz Mikulski
28 Nov 2018

Java performance testing — Epsilon garbage collector

How to make sure that GC does not stop the JVM during a test?
Bartosz Mikulski
21 Nov 2018

Turning greenfield projects into brownfields projects

What happens when the team lacks software craft skills?
Bartosz Mikulski
19 Nov 2018

"The war of art" and other books I did not finish reading

You can read more good books if you skip the lousy ones.
Bartosz Mikulski
16 Nov 2018

Prophet plot explained

How to read the Prophet forecast plot
Bartosz Mikulski
14 Nov 2018

Brain dump — programmer productivity experiment #2

How to generate new ideas instead of thinking about the same thing over and over again
Bartosz Mikulski
12 Nov 2018

Programmer diary — programmer productivity experiment #1

One of the most intriguing ideas described in the book "How Google works" is writing "snippets."
Bartosz Mikulski
09 Nov 2018
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