Magic moments

I recently started working on a software tool in my spear time (yea, its raining a lot this time of year). The reason I started writing it was out of necessity, so I can automate some of the tasks in my current job whilst keeping myself busy until we can travel more. I have been a Java developer for a long time and I started using NodeJS only recently. Regardless since it was a small utility tool and the world has already moved on, I decided to use NodeJS to write it. Now, I have never written a NodeJS application from scratch so far, I worked on some existing ones in my previous company, but never as a standalone console application. What I am trying to say is: I was hesitating a lot, because I had the feeling that I would drown in boilerplate code even before I start writing useful code. I needed something quick, just to finish my task and to get on with it... I read a couple of articles online and feeling confident, I started coding. Not long after, I had a basic standalone consol

  I used to get cringes when I heard the word Project in the past. It is so undefined, so vague, yet it sounds so grandiose. It is so generalized and abused that even its definition is vague: A Project is: An individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim. Then, what is an enterprise, one might ask, so its definition is a vague recursive callback to the first definition: An Enterprise is: A project or undertaking, especially a bold or complex one. But we all intuitively know what a project is, right? It's that thing um... project managers talk about, that thing you work on... um... that thing someone plans and executes, most of the time. That thing we are late for 6 months already! See where I'm going with this? Regardless, lets switch gears a little bit, how do you feel when you have too much time on your hands? I mean when you have absolutely nothing to do, for whatever reason. You feel bored and useless, right? So you start thi

  When I was growing up, capitalism was just making a breakthrough in my country, consequently our elders were still telling the centuries old mantra that: Money can't buy you happiness.  As time went by I was observing the complete opposite. To have a motorcycle you need money, to have a nice house you need money, to have a nice car you need money... so Money => Goods => Happiness. Additionally I would hear my father saying: Money are not everything in the world, but solve all the problems . Apparently this turned out to be true in most cases, except in ONE! Self value . That is the one that money can't buy. Money won't make you an expert at anything, only time and effort can. Needless to say, you can enroll in the best schools and commission the best mentors in the world, but that will not magically make you good at anything, it only gives you false feeling of accomplishment and bloated vanity. That's how far money will go, only make you a member of an expensive