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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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Posts Tagged productivity

Nine months of pair programming

I’ve paired off and on throughout my programming career, but for the last nine months, I’ve had a chance to pair nearly full time. I’m not much of a drink-the-koolaid dogmatist, so I’ll try to give my honest opinion about what’s wonderful and not so wonderful about pair programming. The Good: Zero time for knowledge [...]


5 minutes a day for exponential productivity

As a software developer, my day is taken by two primary activities: thought work and typing. Although I am a very fast typer, they pay me the big bucks ostensibly for what is inside my head, not my fingers. Every moment I spend typing something repetitive is therefore not only a waste of the time [...]


Vim demystified: ten commands you can start using today

.vimtable { text-align: left; width: 600px; border: 1px solid #aaa; margin-bottom: 1em } .vimtable td,th { padding: 1em; } .vimtable tr td {border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd } .vimtable tr.last td { border-bottom: none} .vimtable td.first { font-weight: bold; font-size: 120%; } .vimtable strong { font-size: 120%; background: lightyellow; } .vimtable tr.warning td { background: #ffffcc; [...]


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