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Lorem ipsum is an enigmatic model text that designers and developers use in wireframes, mockups, prototypes, or the app in progress. It’s meant to illustrate the visual form of the document when the final copy is in the making.
But also, it’s a sickness of the world of design and web development. Learn why.
Mocking up real services is a no-brainer, no one wants tests to affect the production environment in any way. Here’s how to do that with AWS Cognito in Python.
Once upon a time, there was a tech conference and a grand plan to have it properly recorded and published for others to enjoy. And then it all went haywire.
Every year in Makimo, we hold a company tech conference called CodeBetter. It’s an open space for everyone to share their experiences and ideas in front of an audience. It’s also a great way to get together and discuss what we’ve all achieved over the past year — contrary to the original name, all topics and areas are welcome, not just programming-related.
We did our first impromptu recordings of all the talks in 2021, and this year I thought: hey, let’s do it Better™ this time. As you can imagine from the title and the opening paragraph, it didn’t go according to plan. Let’s salvage some worthwhile takeaways from this, shall we?
So you have decided to build a digital product – some type of software, maybe a mobile app, a web app, some sort of cloud solution. Your two main options are building a team in-house – within your own organization – or taking this matter to an external team which specializes in similar services. Or maybe there is a third way?
Pursuing a career, following your dreams, or taking a step outside your comfort zone is difficult. But it’s not meant to be easy, just like running a marathon. Apart from being physically taxing – even for the fittest – it’s mostly a journey into the gray matter of the mental and emotional game, where the rules keep changing and your talents blend with grit. Here are some life and career lessons I’ve learned from running my first marathon.
It’s a sunny day, you are sitting in front of your desk in a mid-to-large company, thinking about some everyday problems in your job, and suddenly you have an interesting thought – what if I could solve my problems with some digital magic?
