Christian Barra

Journal

How to start a consulting business: A curated list of resources

There are so many things to consider when you leave your job to start a consulting business. And this is the list I needed when I started.

May 05, 2021

Getting 51 free days more on your agenda

AKA a 4-day workweek

November 30, 2019

Freelancing & Academia to Industry panel

Takeaways from the Freelancing and Academia to Industry panel @ PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2019

October 18, 2019

How to deal with self-limiting thought before a talk

What climbing can teach us

October 05, 2019

51 mins and 41 secs

First thoughts after moving back from a remote job to daily commuting

May 16, 2019

Onboarding for new tech hires

How to (properly) onboard new team members

February 11, 2019

Python dictionary views

Digging into one of the coolest features of the Mighty Dictionary

January 07, 2019

Discovering the pathlib module

Moving with elegance through the filesystem

December 11, 2018

How to reverse a list in Python

Reversing a sequence object in Python takes only 1 line

December 05, 2018

The code review that never happened

AKA try/except properly and log!

November 03, 2017

Let me introduce: slots

The featherweight version of a Python class

September 03, 2017

My to-watch-list from EuroPython 2017

My to-watch-list from the EuroPython 2017, biggest European conference about Python

July 25, 2017

Classes, instances and attributes in Python

An introduction about namespaces in Python classes

July 09, 2016

Docker orchestration

How to use Docker Compose to manage a simple app stack

February 09, 2015

How to start with Python and some useful resources

Useful resource about Python

June 18, 2014

No country for young men

Talking about my country, Italy, and its big problems

May 05, 2014

Why, startup quote api and Docker

A little intro to my blog, docker and a good book to read

April 19, 2014