Software engineering and personal development

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Reduce the amount of time you waste online using HabitLab

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One of the easiest ways that we can waste our time on is by browsing aimlessly without having defined intentions. Our habits determine are the behaviors that we are doing most of the time and taking the time to build better habits will most likely lead to better lives. This includes building better habits online. A Chrome extension from Stanford is to help us with that.

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Beat procrastination of writing using “The Most Dangerous Writing App”

I have published more than 270 articles in this blog now and I still have difficulties getting started, despite the fact that I may have a particular topic that I want to write about, or that I have already made a decision to start writing. I just find other things that I could be spending my time on and this makes me procrastinate and delay starting. However, once I get started, I am more likely to follow through and finish writing the article, as I have gained some momentum and want to go further and finish it. A friend of mine has informed me about a tool that I have used to get started for writing a few articles that I have already published here called TheMostDangerousWritingApp.

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Improve the quality of your written English using Grammarly

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We spend a lot of time online writing emails, writing reports or documents that we need, but not all of us are native speakers of English. Moreover, even native speakers can have mistakes here and there because they may be in a rush and can not notice a small typo that they may have done. Grammarly is a really helpful Chrome extension that I have been using for a few weeks now and I am really content with it.

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Get informed about best free online courses at Class Central

A lot of learning is now done online without having to pay an expensive monthly subscription fee. Massive Open Online Courses, also known as MOOCs, have gained popularity in recent years and the number of people that attend them is really high.

As time goes by, the number of MOOCs only increases, so it can be hard to choose the courses that you want to attend and also have an initial impression about the reviews of others for that particular MOOC. For these and many other things related to MOOCs, Class Central can be very valuable.

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Resources to get ideas for new small programming projects that you can work on

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One of the best ways to learn something new is to apply what you are trying to learn, as you get to deepen the understanding and also retain the information for a longer period of time. Sometimes you need an idea for your first project, or simply an idea for your next side project that you want to work on in your free time, but you simply do not seem to have any idea. Maybe you are trying to learn a new framework, or a new concept and you want to apply it using your own implementation without relying on the implementations of the person that you are learning from. If that is the case, here are a few resources that I have just found that you can use to get inspired for a new project that you can work on.

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Learn each step of the solutions for Math problems for free using Symbolab

If you are trying to solve math problems and they seem easy, maybe you are doing something wrong. At least, that may be the first impression that you have, as they have been vastly proclaimed to challenge you and make you feel stressed and even a lot of times, forcing you to give up and just go back to see the solution. The reason for these can be that you may not know all the steps that are necessary to do be followed if you want to reach the desired result.  Fortunately, solving math problems can be simplified using a really cool web application that shows you the step to reach the solution.

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