The optimal stopping is one of the most important topics in pure (theoretical) mathematics with many impacts in real life. It gives you an optimal pattern of how to approach many situations. It includes hiring a new employee, renting a flat, selling a house, finding your next love or just searching for a parking place. Despite the horrendous name, the underpinning logic is relatively simple.

Virtual environments are a beneficial concept that makes your coding much more accessible. There are many tools in Python for creating and managing virtual environments. This article analyses the native virtual environment created using the venv command on Linux and Windows. Another simplified and more user-friendly approach is to use Anaconda software (using command conda) or using IDE like PyCharm directly.

If one chooses to do a software developer, he will sooner or later find out that there is a lot of need-to-know things. Among them are the commands of the bash shell (and the shell itself). It can save you a lot of time in the future if you learn them now. This post presents the most commonly used commands and use-cases for them. They are helpful not only for software developers but to everyone who works in IT.

Frameworks for organizing work - you cannot avoid it whenever you decide to manage a project in IT. What is the most effective way for organizing the work of your team? Probably none of the issues related to project management is covered by so many posts, videos on YouTube, articles in scientific journals. This article is about one concrete human perspective on project organization. It can help you decide how to run your project, consider available frameworks (particularly Waterfall, Agile and SCRUM frameworks), and present management tools.