09 Oct 2026

Το Lab to Market: Bridging Innovation and Entrepreneurship επιστρέφει για δεύτερη χρονιά, με στόχο την ενίσχυση της καινοτομίας, της νεοφυούς επιχειρηματικότητας και της αξιοποίησης των ερευνητικών αποτελεσμάτων. Το πρόγραμμα υλοποιείται σε συνεργασία μεταξύ του Εθνικού […]

Μονάδα Καινοτομίας Και Επιχειρηματικότητας ΕΜΠ

02 Sep 2026

Attention is in the past. There is no going back. We just need an answer; laconicism.

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02 Sep 2026

Planning is overrated. Things won’t go your way, because you wrote them down. This is where discipline is required.

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02 Sep 2026

Our code reviews are direct, non-personal and honest. Any work not meeting our standards is not shipped. This is necessary to achieve greatness.

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02 Sep 2026

Instead of planning, we would rather "Zappa" things. Improvising towards the end goal, while ensuring the non-negotiables.

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02 Sep 2026

The retort to perfectionism is well-defined high standards that, once surpassed, signal it's time to put the work out.

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02 Sep 2026

Simplifying a system means completely removing a part of it. Most of the time though, we do not do that. We decide how to position complexity.

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02 Sep 2026

Talking a lot is easy. Speaking concisely is harder. Communicating with clarity, is on another level of difficulty. Why though?

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02 Sep 2026

There are two kinds of slow: unintentional, where things spiral out of control, and intentional, where slowness is a trade-off for a better outcome.

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02 Sep 2026

Pulses is the GitHub App that helps your team get aligned by replacing recurring meetings, like daily stand-ups, with scheduled GitHub discussions.

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02 Sep 2026

Expanding on that statement, companies rarely talk about building resilience by overcoming failures in business.

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02 Sep 2026

There is something deeply human and intimate about putting your signature on your work implying a direct moral responsibility for its results.

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02 Sep 2026

There is no "soft deadline" — there either is a deadline or not. Everything else is noise.

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02 Sep 2026

At LOGIC everyone has a field of expertise, along with sufficient understanding of the whole stack

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02 Sep 2026

Customers should feel like they are the only ones you have to deal with when they need your company.

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02 Sep 2026

We are excited to announce that we are looking to hire an intern to kick off our marketing operations at LOGIC.

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02 Sep 2026

Supermarket software houses claim to provide all sorts of solutions. They never say no, in exchange for a low bar. LOGIC is not one.

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02 Sep 2026

We are super excited to announce ergani. A Python SDK that alleviates headaches from trying to integrate with the Ergani API.

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02 Sep 2026

Teams often spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to make their work shiny and impressive, rather than get the basics right and just make it work great for its purpose.

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02 Sep 2026

Two weeks ago we talked about vendor lock‑in at the Docker Athens meetup. What about consultant lock-in as you move to bare metal?

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02 Sep 2026

I had two incidents last week that, from opposite directions, pointed out to me the importance of being able to export my data from the applications I am using.

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02 Sep 2026

My sister and I have been working on a family software project for a while now. In this context, we employ a tool developed by one of our clients at , while also actively contributing to it. As my sister attempted to use it last Friday, suddenly a .

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02 Sep 2026

I have already talked about the . To improve my focus, being quite of a systematic person, I try to recognise the indicators of the quality of my focus and the conditions, under which it flourishes or struggles.

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02 Sep 2026

There is one thing I deeply love about the United States and always enjoy while being there. It is the extroversion of people. They talk about what they do in work and life in general, they celebrate it and also want to hear accordingly from you as well. It’s truly...

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02 Sep 2026

Last month, we held our fourth company meet-up, where most of our small team got together and worked in person from our office for a whole week.

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02 Sep 2026

We are super excited today to announce ; an open source project we have been working on for a while in LOGIC. Django Prose makes it extremely easy to work with rich-text content in Django, our web framework of choice. Let’s take a deeper look into this.

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02 Sep 2026

“It does not work, and I do not know why! Now it works and I still do not know why!”

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02 Sep 2026

This is a special day. We are extremely excited today to launch Vaulty, along with its first subscription offering “Vaulty Personal”. Vaulty is the easiest way to receive end-to-end encrypted sensitive information.

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02 Sep 2026

A couple of months ago I ran into an issue with a car I rented, that quite much resembled a regular situation in software.

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02 Sep 2026

For the last few years I take considerable vacation every August — 2 weeks minimum. It helps me relax, rejuvenate and think.

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02 Sep 2026

Getting distracted by the very same tools you use to do your job in your every day work is really new to our species. Our brain has been developed for hundreds of years with non-intrusive tools. The pen and paper on an architects office, would never pop up a notification...

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02 Sep 2026

We are thrilled to announce that we are looking to hire a Web Developer at LOGIC. LOGIC is the company through which and are pursuing exciting projects.

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02 Sep 2026

A few weeks ago I ordered a cab through an app to get me back to my hotel from a visit at a friend's house in London. Two peculiar things happened at this moment. First, the driver pretended to pick me up and then completed the ride immediately, so they...

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02 Sep 2026

nior Web Developer at LOGIC, the new company through which and are pursuing exciting projects.

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02 Sep 2026

A whole lot of things happen at work these days — mostly good ones. As a result, I need to take more and more decisions day by day and the fear of can always creep in.

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02 Sep 2026

I love the idea of the minimum viable product. Identifying what is absolutely necessary for launching a new viable product and building it timely with discipline within a tight timeframe is a virtue.

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02 Sep 2026

There is this postmodern motivational advice that I seriously despise; “Surround yourself with people better than you”. What disgusts me more about it, is how it cultivates parasitic personalities and camouflaged egocentrism. Fuck that!

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02 Sep 2026

A fundamental skill in software development is realising when you have to relinquish control and actually doing it.

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02 Sep 2026

Yesterday I witnessed impolite behavior by an contributor. The issue started when they voluntarily opened up a Pull Request that we were skeptical about accepting.

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02 Sep 2026

Every so often, I see developers getting excited about something new that just came up. This can be anything from a new machine learning tool to a front-end framework, containers, lambdas etc.

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02 Sep 2026

It’s been lots of years since I found any new app and enjoyed using it.

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02 Sep 2026

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about how things can go wrong when creating a user interface.

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02 Sep 2026

In May 2017 I bought a couple of tickets for a Premier League game from a very popular ticket selling website. The tickets were not delivered in time, because I didn’t include my flat number in the delivery address, so I missed the game.

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02 Sep 2026

Let’s get straight to the point; choose an SQL database for your web application. I think I can’t make my self clearer.

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02 Sep 2026

Anyone who has ever contributed code in a collaborative software project, had hard time doing so at some point.

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02 Sep 2026

Welcome to The State of Progress, a blog that hosts only pragmatic and timeless articles on developing and managing software.

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22 Jun 2026

What happens to productivity when a small team works with AI as a teammate, and why 2x is the wrong way to calculate it.

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28 May 2026

In May 2026 we had the chance to visit Athens SEO, an international conference focused on Technical SEO and AI in Search, designed to help search professionals enhance their skills, connect with industry experts, and stay updated on the latest trends in search automation and artificial intelligence.

In this article we’ve...

Skroutz engineering

18 May 2026

Navigating the post-launch silence, waiting for my partner, and the joy of solving hard problems without the dopamine hits.

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