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martinStoev.de - Software Development, Leadership, and other Musings

Training vs. Conferences: How to Spend Your Team Budget Wisely

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The right training can motivate, align, and level up your team. The wrong one wastes everyone’s time.

IT companies spend heavily on employee training, but is it worth it?

I’ve worked in startups and global enterprises with budgets to send my teams to conferences and training. I’ve also talked with...

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How to Build a Knowledge Base You'll Actually Use

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You’ll gather a growing archive of insights as your career unfolds. Not all of it matters, but keeping it pays off later.

Think of it as a living garden: optional, yes, but overflowing with rewards when you care for it. Each note you write is a new seedling, every restructure...

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AI Broke Your Interview Process

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“Never stop hiring” isn’t just a mantra; it’s been my reality this year. I had to fill many team lead and developer positions, and to achieve it, I relied on a battle-tested framework:

  • Check for soft skills like communication style.
  • Dig deeper if you perceive common symptoms of red...

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Feedback That Actually Works

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Feedback is the mirror that shows us where to grow — and it works best when it’s quick and straightforward.

Many people dread both giving and receiving feedback, but it’s one of the fastest ways to shift how someone thinks and acts. I used to avoid feedback to “keep the...

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I Recovered an Old Article thanks to Archive.org

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Yesterday, I was looking at my Nginx logs and saw that someone tried to access an old article of mine. I published an “Introduction to QR Codes” (in German) for my university back in 2011.

The article was lost due to my server moving to Netcup and me not...

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