Paolo Di Pasquale's personal blog
Posted by Paolo on 9.9.23 in Ways of Working
Ever since I started learning about web design and development, I have been interested in blogging. The posts I published in the past tended to be a mixture of technical tutorials, personal stories and thoughts on ways of working. I’ve always had a personal website or blog in some shape or form and it’s always […]
Posted by Paolo on 7.7.23 in Ways of Working
Recently I attended a department all hands in the office and it was a pleasure to catch up with some colleagues in person. At the end of the day we were invited for a drink in a nearby pub. During the course of the evening I had a chat with someone, a couple of levels […]
Sometimes when I check out a branch, for example to review a Pull Request (PR) and then make a change to some of the files, I find that when I want to check out a different branch I get a Git error like the one below: In the past I have used git stash to […]
For this particular post, I feel the need to explain why I would want to write about this in the first place. I seem to have a fascination with personal working spaces. When I used to work in the office, all the desks were very clinical and minimalist, but the remote working era has introduced […]
Posted by Paolo on 3.8.23 in Celebrations
In Italy it is tradition to give Mimosa flowers to women on International Women’s day. The plant blooms at this time of year with bright and scented flowers. The Mimosa is associated to strength and femininity and it was originally declared “pianta delle donne” in 1946 when the UDI (Unione Donne Italiane) was looking for […]
There’s a word that antagonises me, probably more than it should and that is the word “just”. I hear it in different contexts, but each time it makes me think that the person using it is making light of the request they are making. At work I hear “Paolo, couldn’t we just do this?”, in […]