• Small upgrades to your workspace

    Posted on Apr 21, 2016
    Right Posture
    Right Posture vs Reality

    After another cross-country move, I've had to leave my mighty Workspace behind (complete with 2 monitors and a fierce Desktop PC). I've taken my Laptop with me, thinking that's really all I need, as I could do all my work while sitting in a park meditating (or some other ridiculous notion). Obviously I was totally wrong!

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    Tagged with workspace, keyboard, mouse, desk, laptop
    Posted in Technology

  • Family Tree Research

    Posted on Apr 8, 2016
    Family Photos

    I've recently restarted my genealogical research efforts, to find out more about my family's history.
    In many cases, especially people of Jewish-European origins, not much is known by the ones who stayed alive (20th century Europe has seen a lot).
    Many archives are recent, and some German/Polish/Russian archives have only recently been scanned and digitized.

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    Tagged with family tree, genealogy, gramps, myheritage, ancestry
    Posted in Technology

  • Best of 2015

    Posted on Dec 31, 2015
    happy-new-year

    As most of you have noticed, I (almost) always post on a Thursday.
    This year, for the first time since 2009, New Year's Eve is on a Thursday!
    So first of all Happy New Year everyone! Let's make this year kick 2015's ass!

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    Tagged with new year, silvester, best of
    Posted in Technology

  • Finding the Top JavaScript Cities in Europe

    Posted on Dec 24, 2015
    JS EU Logo

    I've recently read an interesting article, talking about the job market for JavaScript in 2016.
    While the article presented great points on why Web Developers should invest some time and work with JavaScript, the job & market related information was US-centric. I wanted to see how things look like on the European front.

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    Tagged with web development, javascript, europe, eu
    Posted in Technology

  • Tips for Jekyll development

    Posted on Dec 10, 2015
    jekyll-tips Continuing the WordPress to Jekyll series,
    I've decided to give a few Jekyll tips that I've learned in the process of converting my website.

    Jekyll serve at the speed of light

    Over 5 years, I've written quite a few posts, over 500 posts.
    To test Jekyll out (for development) you have to run the following command:

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    jekyll serve
    However, with 500+ posts, it takes about 70-90 seconds to build, which is annoying if you're making small tweaks,
    that take minutes to compile.
    There's a cool little trick to make compilation happen a lot quicker, by limiting the number of posts:
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    jekyll serve --limit_posts=3
    This will only compile the last 3 posts, which is enough for 99% of test cases anyways.
    The average compilation time with the limit_posts parameter is about 3-4 seconds.
    This is a great trick especially if you have a bigger blog with 1000+ posts.
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    Tagged with jekyll, wordpress, static
    Posted in Technology