Last week on Thursday the lovely people from Zagreb PHP had me over for a talk. I presented my new talk called “All aboard the Service Bus”. I gave this talk once before at the PHP Srbija meetup in January. I’ve reused the slides, made some minor adjustments based on the feedback I received in Belgrade, and of course updated the footer.

Last week I created a page on this site that holds all the talks I have prepared for meetups and conferences. As this site is powered by Hugo, the process wasn’t that straightforward. I want to write down the steps I did to make it easier in the future.

Last year (feels weird to say “last year”, when it was less than a month ago) Matthew asked me if I’d be willing to appear as a guest on his Free the Geek podcast. To have a short chat about running my own software consultancy, freelancing, public speaking, and whatever else pops up.

A week or so ago, Luka mentioned this Advent of Code thing. I’ve been doing coding challenges and examples before, but never have I tried the AoC (this is the third year it’s running).

Earlier this year I started reading the DDD book by Eric Evans. Together with the Eventsourcery videos from Shawn McCool, the first three chapters of the book were… easy to understand, even. Lots of “A-ha!” and “Oh!” moments, followed by “That makes perfect sense.” statements, and a couple of excited “I knew that!"-ones. Then I got to the chapter with the bounded contexts. I read the first few pages, thought about them… Then read them again, and thought some more. Then I put the book back on the shelf for a few months.

Everyone loves contributing patches to open source projects, adding new features. Some even like to write documentation.

Back in December last year, Matthew Turland published a blog post asking “Why aren’t you speaking?”

I enjoy contributing to open source projects, and I learn a lot while doing it. When someone asks me for advice on how to improve as a programmer, I usually tell them to find an open source project that interests them, and start contributing.

I made such a stupid mistake today and lost an hour of my time trying to figure out what the hell is wrong, that I just have to blog it.

The search and replace feature is very powerful in Vim. Just do a :help :s to see all the things it can do.