Code-athon, Code marathon or Hackthon: Is it good?

In the ever-evolving landscape of tech-driven workplaces, companies are increasingly adopting unique approaches to foster innovation, collaboration, and rapid problem-solving. One such approach gaining popularity is the code-athon, code marathon or hackathon — a structured event where teams come together in the office for a concentrated burst of coding, creativity, and camaraderie. In some companies, … Read more

Prioritizing Tasks – Time Management

Tasks

One of the important aspects of time management is to prioritize the tasks in hand. This is more of a daily routine one has to perform at the start of the day’s work. However, for some prioritizing might be confusing or difficult. That’s where the Priority Quadrant comes to the rescue. The Priority Quadrant, also … Read more

Kroki – Diagrams from textual descriptions!

diagramming

There are a lot of tools that enable rendering of diagrams using text descriptions. The popular ones include Mermaid – A diagramming and charting tool that uses Markdown-inspired text definitions. Supports drawing of Flowchart, Sequence Diagram, Graphs, Class Diagrams, ER Diagrams and much more Graphviz – A graph visualisation software to represent structural information as … Read more

Sleep and Be Productive

In the episode Night Terrors of The Star Trek: The Next Generation, the ship Enterprise and its crew go in search of missing science vessel USS Brattain in an uncharted binary star system and gets caught in a spatial phenomenon called The Tyken’s Rift – a massive rupture in space into which energy is absorbed. … Read more