In today's fast-moving tech environment, staying focused is a significant challenge for developers like you and me. Between constant emails, messages, and notifications, it's easy to lose track of what we're working on.

This blog post is for developers who struggle to maintain their concentration amid all these distractions. I'll share stories that might feel familiar and offer straightforward advice on reducing distractions to focus better on our work.

I'll share my journey on staying connected without sacrificing my precious deep work time.

Hello there, fellow efficiency seekers!

With this issue, we're diving into the transformative potential of ChatGPT's Summarization Technique and celebrating the newfound accessibility of Bluesky's decentralized social networking platform!

Around a month ago, I wrote about reducing mindless scrolling without external software. Two weeks ago I showed how to block the distracting content. Now let us discuss the options and flavours of content blocking.

Hello, Today I’ll tell you how I almost switched to Revue and share a story of how lava lamps help in cryptography.

Two weeks ago, I mentioned removing distractions on my smartphone and computer. Check issue#1: How to reduce mindless scrolling for the “why should I block anything”.

Here I present in practice how to block “too attractive” content.

On my path to becoming a content creator, I decided to give it a try and build a Twitter account. It should help me build my personal brand as a professional.

To validate if I can give some value I set a goal to reach 1000 followers in 1 year.

I watched some video courses, followed “twitter gurus”, tried tools and implemented strategies shared by growth hackers. I learned a lot during that experience.

In this topic, I want to share some observations from my path.

Every week I lose multiple hours on scrolling memes, news and comment sections. It distracts me from the important stuff, makes my eyes sore and destroys my ability to focus.

What is more: the dopamine reward loop mechanism also affects my mood. Without these small excitement doses, I feel depressed.

This affects many developers as we tend to seek a break in our natural habitat – in front of a screen. As a software developer, I spend too much time in front of a screen anyway because of my work.

It’s my pleasure to finally announce the PROGRACTIVITY initiative!

Progractivity newsletter is about programming, productivity and proactivity.

My goal is to enable frontend developers to feel more fulfilled by their daily duties. We will discuss tooling, distractions, coding, product building, brand building and much more here.

There is a saying that time is our most valuable resource. It is the truth. Yet, for programmers focus is the most important asset. So what, that we have 8 hours a day dedicated to working if we cannot commit to the important task? Especially now, when remote and hybrid jobs are on a rise.