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We have hundreds of thousands of lines of ruby code spanning many services / monoliths. Even now I find it somewhat annoying to open a controller / component that is basically an e…

Yeah... but also from the other perspective (the victim / target) - bitterness about the past is poison and for your own good, forgive. https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/evol…

... do they have guitar tab and chord sheets lol. Oh I can imagine the replies to this already lol.

Lots of refs here to the Haber-Bosch process in creating the ammonia... for those interested in a break down of what it is - https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does-the-worlds-rel…

Coffee naps have definitely helped me meet deadlines lol. The idea is to skull a cup of strong coffee, and have a nap for 15 mins... just enough time to clear the adenosine, and fo…

I think theres an order to abstraction. Variables, functions, classes / modules, classlibs / pacckages, microservices etc... and with each bump up comes maintenance overhead, versi…

Fear of change keeps you locked into misery. If at all possible take steps to get a new vision of your future and change careers, cos your current vision of your future is sounding…

...love a bit of rick astley with my morning Covfefe....

Look behind them and see who is following (following.... not just obeying)

Glad I didn’t read this on a Monday! I found this article to be a bit of a bleak outlook, or interpretation of life. At least Ecclesiastes offers a little bit more hope of finding …

There's a few gems around handling this in middleware: https://github.com/benkitzelman/google-ajax-crawler https://github.com/inossidabile/hashbang