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I also really enjoyed reading this; the mix of computer science & history was well balanced and kept my interest. It makes me think there should be a CompSci history class taught i…

The amount of salt in photo #6 is too much salt. Its very easy to over-salt anything and ruin it. Better to under-salt until you gain enough experience with judging how much you ac…

A 25% restocking fee seems like a better solution.

My blog https://amdelamar.com/blog/ Focusing lately on Scala and programming articles, but struggle to publish more frequently.

Physical NFTs! Sounds like a cool idea for a website...

> 4. Fail small, reducing blast radius One more thing not mentioned here, is that using a microservice architecture can naturally help isolate outages to small parts of your app/we…

This is my top issue with open-source nginx. Nginx plus has the solution though with its `resolver` directive. https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/http-...

I think there's a good analogy to a wedding ceremony I read from DDIA. "Do you take X? I do. And do you take Y? I do. I now pronounce you X+Y".

A year ago I had a coworker build a CRUD app with an API that required GET with a body. Something simple like: GET /api/query Host: example.org Content-Type: application/json { "a"…

And [Brew]( https://brew.sh )

My team had migrated about 35 codebases from a mix of Play, Scalatra, Ruby, and Python, to Akka HTTP. The unification definitely made it easier for juniors to start work on unfamil…

I've had a similar phase and just switched back to Ubuntu a week ago after having used a number of different distros since 2011. As a software developer myself, I think there is a …

> The best part is that the cubicle doesn't have tall walls so I can literally see/hear everything, including other people's monitors. Open offices are awful. In my experience most…

Monolith, sure. Microservices, no.

I did this and still feel gross about it even though I don't regret the decision. Accepted an offer for a Java/Spring developer, but a week later I got a better offer for a Scala e…

It really boils down to trust. My manager trusts I will make up lost time after my doctor's appointment, as they generally know if I've been falling behind work or not. We also giv…

59 miles range? That's not going to cut it for most commuters in California.

I prefer the original quote as it doesn't imply any leader/manager stereotype. > "Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." ~ Peter Drucker

If I remember right, GrubHub/Doordash will undercut restaurant prices to gain more customers for short-term, then later adjust prices back up once they establish a more stable audi…

Imagine if a site like AppleiPhone.com was setup and selling iPhones as a front to Apple.com, complete with their own shopping menu and phone number that they owned instead of Appl…

When I worked at IBM I heard about this RA tactic before. To get rid of an unwanted employee a company might promote them frequently/repeatedly until they quit. What's the logic be…

That's a great metaphor for OOP. What is the full quote or reference from? This is all I could find: https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-p...

This basically outlines my current job. Huge system with many, constantly moving/upgrading parts and services across teams, all while utilizing dozens of internal services, tools, …