Petros

Mental liquidity

June 12, 2023No Comments

“Mental liquidity” refers to the ability to swiftly abandon previous beliefs when the world evolves. This is rare as it is often easier to deceive oneself with falsehoods than to acknowledge a mistake.

Started making games as an indie

May 29, 2023May 29, 2023No Comments

Some thoughts and notes on starting making games as an indie dev and why.

The last heartbeat at Zed

May 17, 2023May 18, 20232 Comments

Today marks the last day at Zed Industries. After a 5 month period, I decided to end the 6 month contact a bit earlier to focus on what’s next.

Use Clippy to fix your lint suggestions

April 26, 2023April 26, 2023No Comments

Using cargo clippy –fix to apply suggestions automatically.

My trip to Los Angeles

April 3, 2023No Comments

A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Los Angeles for my first summit with Zed Industries. I haven’t done that for some time now. I used to do that a lot when I worked at GitHub. The route was pretty much standard. Thessaloniki to Frankfurt or Munich, and then a 10 or 12 hour flight to San Francisco. This time it was from Thessaloniki to Munich to Los Angeles.

My first four weeks at Zed Industries

February 8, 2023April 3, 2023No Comments

I am not going to lie. Starting over again with a new programming language, after 12 years of not coding full time is not easy. I have been spending most of my time, learning, and staring at code not knowing what it does. I feel my brain works at 1/4 of the speed of more experienced colleagues. Zed Industries is all about pairing. And I’ve now paired with 5 different people. I often get this feeling that I am slowing everyone down.