Pair programming revisited

I’ve always liked pair programming, since my college times. I remember doing coding exercises spending late nights at the computer lab and we were always working with your partners. And you would talk to everyone in the room trying to figure out how to solve things, you’d sit with people from other teams and share code. I didn’t know you’d call this pairing then.

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Switch AWS accounts easily using roly

Many companies keep their AWS accounts separated per environment, per team, etc and you can find yourself in a situation where you have users and credentials on many different accounts. From a security perspective this is not ideal as managing this can be very hard, people will change teams, leave the company, etc and cleaning up their access on all accounts can be very tedious and time consuming.

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Fast directory navigation using the CDPATH

For a long time I’ve used my own command alias to navigate through my work related projects and jump to them using the cx

Originally the x comes from Xing where I worked at the time. It also happens that the letter x is located next to the c which makes it very convenient like cd.

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Blog redesign

It’s been a while since I worked on the blog’s design. The design dated back to 2011 which is like an eon in Internet time and I didn’t particularly liked how it looked anymore so I decided to change it.

I normally don’t do any design work and CSS is not something I’ve enjoyed particularly but I’ve always used this space to work on that area.

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