Setting up windows for development

Historically I have done all my development on Mac Os operating system. So I am mostly familiar with Unix based systems. Windows has always been something that I have avoided, since I don’t game and most of the stuff on Mac just works. So this year I started learning the C# and I have been blown away how nice the language and the ecosystem has been. This sparked my interest in trying out Windows and Visual Studio which is the home for most ....

March 16, 2020 · 2 min · Tristan Krass

Setting up my personal Knowledge Base

Having used various note taking apps over the years I have now come to a place where my technical knowledge is at the point where it is actually easier for me to setup the note-taking system managed by me. Currently at college I am working a lot with command line and .Net Core and there are various concepts and commands that I need to use over and over again. For this reason I thought that it would be nice to have a documentation that is accessible from anywhere aka a website....

February 29, 2020 · 4 min · Tristan Krass

How to validate your ideas

So you are a developer, designer or entrepreneur and you want to start your new side hustle, endeavor that you think might change the world or make a world better place or make same side income. So how do you come up with the idea or how do you validate the idea. I will be breaking up the these in to two phases. First I will point out some of the resources and tricks that help you generate new ideas....

January 17, 2020 · 3 min · Tristan Krass

Uses

Hardware Macbook Pro 2017 ( 16GB Ram, 256GB SSD) Logitech Craft Keyboard Logitech MX Keys 1.TB Hard Drive by Lacie Pixel 3 Software Evernote - for note taking in classes and a place where I store all my new ideas. Lately I have swithched to a new system entirely, which I wrote about in depth here Spotify Audible Todoist – to keep me on track ( They also have reduced price for students) Google Calendar and the whole GSuite for documents Sketch for designing, I have lately been using Figma, since it has free license for students and the collaboration features are better than sketch....

January 16, 2020 · 2 min · Tristan Krass

Books

Technical books && Software related books I recommend Clean Code by Robert C. Martin Effective Java by Joshua Bloch Code Complete bySteve McConnell Automate the Boring Stuff with Python byAl Sweigart The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. [The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master](The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master) by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas...

January 16, 2020 · 1 min · Tristan Krass