Or how I moved with one backpack and half suitcase.

Foreword

This story has begun on 08.06 of 2021. The CEO of our company invited me to his office. We discussed my half year review and etc, and he put an offer in front of me. I went through, and I have to admit it was a nice package. But here is a small thing, I had to move to Luxembourg. We had some talks about that before, so I was morally prepared. Another country about which I didn’t know anything, except it’s one of the most expensive countries to live in.

Data is expensive

I write around 2-3 important notes a day. And don’t actually worry if my laptop will be stolen, but the data on it..

Since Im heavy notion user I was looking for automated backup solution. Not that I don’t trust notion, trust but verify, right?

Backup

1. Create a private github repo

2. Go to actions tab and click on set up a workflow yourself ->

I already posted a few thoughts about the iPad in the life of a developer. When I got a message from GitHub that I have beta access to codespaces I was super excited and started looking for a project which I can try to move to the cloud development environment to try it out. Due to the lack of small cozy projects which wouldn’t require docker-compose with 10 services, the first thing which I setup here is my blog since it’s just Hugo.

Basic Building Blocks

My blog and GitHub slightly empty in the past few months. I started spending less time on coding itself. I guess this happened to me naturally. I was a software engineer for the past five years and I was building amazing things in good teams and companies. I started to feel that I would like to help other people more than being focus on personal success.

That’s why I started spending much more of my spare time on our family project which is called basicbb - Basic Building Blocks. And #TechScaling but that’s a story for the next post.

lalabuy948/genvutils

Motivation

As you probably saw my founding of two nice libraries that allow you beauty and easy abstraction on dot and just environment variables. You can check it there

After some time I decided to create another open-source library for the world and I merged the functionality of packages which you can find in the article above. I started from scratch and you are more than welcome to have look on it on my GitHub -> github.com/lalabuy948/genvutils