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Working remote is awesome, especially if you can use proper tools (🖕🏼 Teams -> 😍 Slack). However, not everyone is used to working with these tools and there is definitely some etiquette involved here. The most annoying one is receiving a message just saying: “Hi Carlo” and then nothing… Now my brain goes: shit what does he/she want? If I answer will I be sucked into some unimportant topic I don’t want to deal with right now or does he/she simply want help?...

January 28, 2022

Story Discovery in short

If you are not sure what a Story Discovery session is about this high level introduction might come in handy. Userstories mostly come from a PO or the business stakeholders. However it’s extremely valuable to get the insights from the team as well. I always like to ask my devs the following: “With the goal of “{Insert goal here}” in mind: what topics do YOU think we should put on the roadmap?...

November 17, 2021

Upgrade Unifi Controller to 6.x

First I was a bit hesitant on upgrading to 6.x as 5.14 was working absolutely fine. And why fix it if it ain’t broken… 🤷‍♂️ Then the Hook Up came out with an updated 3-part guide on how to setup and configure the Unifi network and I made the adjustments to move away from the WLAN overrides. I have to say I am not completely happy yet with the controller’s stability as it’s disconnecting quite a bit....

April 2, 2021

Manually upgrading Unifi firmware

So you might have tried upgrading your Unifi devices via the controller and for some reason it did not work. Usually this means that the download of the firmware-file failed and chances are big this happens for one of your Switches. In my usecase I am manually upgrading the US-8-60W. First you download the latest .bin-file from the Downloads page. Make sure to put it in the Downloads-folder on your Macbook in order to follow the steps I have specified below, else you need aadjust accordingly....

March 2, 2021

Notion meets Alfred

Powerful combination of 2 great apps According to the Alfred usage statics on average I have used Alfred 16.5 times a day. A staggering 24874 times since 31st December 2016 (The day I got this Macbook). Since I am now fully into Notion I though it would be great if both powerful apps can be combined. Turns out - as always - I am not the first one with this thought and with this great explanation it was super easy to setup....

February 15, 2021