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I'm getting a divorce and will share custody (50/50) of our 4 year old daughter. Can you recommend any books, blogs, podcasts or other resources on being a divorced dad?

Vivaldi browser - https://vivaldi.com/ I switched to it from chrome and never looked back. Tons of good features, really customizable, and (what seems like) a pretty sound business…

https://github.com/grdl/git-get - for cloning, managing and organizing git repos. Inspired by the folder structure created by "go get".

Python Poetry [1] is very sexy. Oh, and Starship prompt [2] too. [1] https://python-poetry.org/ [2] https://starship.rs/

No mature organisation would expect engineers to be on-call continuously, 24/7. There are ways to have a sane, balanced approach to on-call. See the SRE book for one example: https…

This is the approach that works very well for me. Especially since I keep my repos cloned into a directory structure inspired by "go get" using https://github.com/grdl/git-get

Thanks, I'm familiar with the link you posted. You're also right that there's plenty of online resources about writing technical design docs. However, what I'm looking for are not …

As part of an interview process, I have recently received a take home assignment of writing a technical design doc for a simple web app. Turns out I badly suck at it. I have found …

libgit2[0] has a comprehensive API and bindings for dozens of languages. I also like go-git[1] - a pure Go implementation with idiomatic Go API and cool features like in-memory fil…

You're not missing anything. It does use GitLab's mirroring API. However, GitLab doesn't have any global mirroring settings, you need to set up each repo individually. The tool jus…

I have created a small tool that automatically mirrors public repos from GitLab to GitHub: https://github.com/grdl/gitlab-mirror-maker Meaning, a repo can be hosted on GL but still…

Can you share advice or recommend any resources on how to improve one's writing? Especially with regards to technical writing and communication in remote organizations.

Try HFT companies. I live in Amsterdam, we have a bunch of them here and I used to work for couple of them. Their business is extremely low latency so they live and breathe C++ (an…

GitHub actions are not being triggered and https://downdetector.com/status/github/ suggests possible problems.

Android OS on my Philips smart TV.

I'm a versatile software engineer and co-founder with 14 years of experience. Specializing in DevOps, Cloud-Native solutions and Site Reliability Engineering. Always working hard t…

I'm a versatile software engineer and co-founder with 14 years of experience. Specializing in DevOps, Cloud-Native solutions and Site Reliability Engineering. Always working hard t…

I'm a versatile software engineer and co-founder with 14 years of experience. Specializing in DevOps, Cloud-Native solutions and Site Reliability Engineering. Always working hard t…