Periklis Gkolias

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Full stack software engineer
Location

Greece
Education
Joined

Feb 8, 2018

Periklis Gkolias

Jul 21

Git Bisect, the Undervalued Debugging Machine Gun

#git #productivity

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#watercoolerYou set up a new dev team. What are the first things you would do to make things go as smoothly as possible?

#watercooler #discuss #leadership

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Apr 20

#discussIf you had to create a desktop app what tech stack would you use?

#discuss #help

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Mar 23

How to get certified as a professional scrum master, the fast and the slow way

#agile

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Feb 24

12 Ways to Keep Up With the Software Engineering Trends

#learning #motivation #trends

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Feb 21

#discussHow would you create a web API with streaming input and output (eg stocks monitoring system) without tools like Kafka and Spark?

#webdev #discuss #help

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Feb 17

#discussWhat are some (theoretical and pragmatic) cases where it is worth having your own servers instead of renting from a cloud vendor

#discuss

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Dec 18 '19

#watercoolerDo you have any rituals to get up to speed, when coming back from holidays?

#watercooler #discuss

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Dec 10 '19

30 Tips for Software Engineering Careers, After 30 Years of Life

#career #productivity #codenewbie

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Nov 25 '19

A Primer on Python Partial Functions

#python #functional

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Sep 16 '19

Oh Podcasts, Why Do You Have to S*ck?

#podcast #learning

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Sep 3 '19

#discussIf you are working remotely, how do you keep yourself accountable, productive and efficient without external supervision?

#productivity #remote #workfromhome #discuss

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Aug 26 '19

#helpHow to initialize a Singleton mongo connection with expressjs

#help #javascript #node #mongodb

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Aug 22 '19

#watercoolerWhat are your sleep hacks? How do you handle a tough day and fall asleep immediately after lying down?

#watercooler #discuss

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Aug 17 '19

#discussHas anyone used Eclipse Che? What are the main pros and cons you encountered?

#productivity #discuss

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Jul 23 '19

#discussHave you been to IoTBDS conferences before? What is your view on the quality?

#eventsinyourcity #discuss

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Jul 20 '19

#discussCan I somehow see trending tags over a period of time?

#discuss

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Jul 12 '19

#discussHow do you deal with naysayers? (friends, family, colleagues...doesn't matter)

#discuss #watercooler

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Jul 1 '19

#discussHow would you approach a big data query(many TBs of dataset) with non-big data solutions?

#discuss #help

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Jul 1 '19

Generate cooking recipes that guarantee food poisoning, with LSTM based libraries

#deeplearning #lstm #neuralnetworks #python

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Jun 2 '19

A quick way to automate your conda uninstalls

#littlehacks #conda #python3

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May 2 '19

#discussHow to scale python server, for enterprise purposes?

#discuss #python #scalability

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Mar 26 '19

I just finished Code complete cover to cover. Here are the most unexpected things I learned

#books #programming #codecomplete #covertocover

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Mar 11 '19

The Devops Introduction I Wish I Had

#cloud #devops #provisioning #cicdpipeline

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6 min read

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Mar 5 '19

Dear Technical Recruiter…

#recruiting #softwareengineering #career

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Feb 7 '19

What is your experience with Safari Books training?

#selflearning #videotraining #pluralsight #safaribooks

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Jan 28 '19

Devops and Infrastructure for the Solo Dev

#continuousintegrati #devops #codereview #solodevs

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Dec 31 '18

Code Review for the Solo Dev

#solodevs #softwaredevelopment #codequality

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Dec 20 '18

Asyncio, the invincible

#python #asynchronous #asyncio

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Dec 6 '18

#discussWhat the future of web dev might be if Serveless and GraphQL dominate?

#discuss #webdev

1 min read

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Nov 30 '18

Is there any way to filter our "saved" articles?

#meta #featurerequest

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Nov 16 '18

Self Testing for Solo Devs

#codequality #testing #developer #qa

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Oct 30 '18

#discussCan we somehow enforce dev.to to "get" the feed update from medium, without waiting 20-30 minutes?

#discuss #meta

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Oct 30 '18

How to Survive a Noisy Office Environment

#productivity #flow #careeradvice

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Oct 16 '18

Web Assembly for Buzzword Haters

#webassembly #javascript

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Oct 5 '18

#discussWhy do some languages disrupt some common and habitual conventions?

#discuss #languages

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Aug 27 '18

The Definite Guide to Pick the Correct Music While Working

#music #productivity #binauralbeats

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Aug 14 '18

What is your task management process? Do you use trello, asana, calendar etc or a hybrid? And how?

#productivity #tools

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Aug 7 '18

The Incredible Hulk(ython): Making Python Strong(ly Typed)

#python3 #static

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Jun 27 '18

#discussWhat techniques do you employ to reduce the defects that will appear in the first delivered version?

#programming #deployment #bugs #discuss

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Jun 25 '18

Stepping up your javascript debugging skills

#tipsandtricks #problemsolving #javascript #debugging

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Jun 19 '18

#explainlikeimfiveWhat does it mean that a neuron fires, in layman terms? What is the output usually?

#machinelearning #neuralnetworks #explainlikeimfive

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Jun 18 '18

Django by example(Antonio Mele) — book review

#python3 #bookreview #django

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Jun 7 '18

#explainlikeimfiveExplain why developers are bad at testing their work, like I am five

#explainlikeimfive

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May 29 '18

Doctests, the shy giant of testing modules

#testing #continuoustesting #python #doctests

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May 24 '18

#discussWhat sites do you read to learn about "early-stage-technologies"

#earlyadopters #programming #discuss

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Nov 22 '18

The art of leveraging your time

#productivity #selfimprovement #technology #timemanagement

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May 14 '18

The art of leveraging time

#leverage #productivity #timemanagement

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May 8 '18

How being lazy, led me to publicize my first python package

#python #pythonpackages #pypi #opensource

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Apr 9 '18

Must-read books for software engineers — the alternative list

#books #programming #booksrecommendation #procrastination

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Apr 8 '18

#discussWhat do you think is the relationship between exercise and goal-achieving?

#discuss #fitness #exercise #goals

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Mar 30 '18

#discussWhat are the necessary technical and soft skills to thrive as a remote worker?

#discuss #remote #career

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Mar 28 '18

How to get familiar with a new codebase

#codereading #newcodebase #legacycode #opensource

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Mar 12 '18

Fantastic youtube channels, with top-quality learning for software engineers

#youtube #tutorial #programming #top5

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Feb 9 '18

#explainlikeimfiveA comprehensive introduction to unit-testing and mocking with Python3

#mocking #unittesting #python #explainlikeimfive

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