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Using 10lbs for shoulder press does absolutely nothing for your fitness. Even 50lbs barely does anything unless you are completely untrained. And 10 reps is not low reps either. It…

It's not ok to plateau at that level. You will get old, your strength and bone density will go down and it is a lot harder (but still possible) to improve those when you are old. M…

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (a large percentage of my training partners happens to be in IT). It's a fun sport that keeps you fit but is also very cerebral. In a way it's a lot like playin…

Aerobic training is all about the heart rate. You have to get it up to around 120 or higher (and keep it there for a while) to have a training effect. Unless you are REALLY unfit, …

Yes, we did all that a few years ago and it's still in use. Clean code, hexagonal architecture, DDD, event sourcing. Main lesson is that you should not use it for everything (yes, …

Thanks for creating it. I sold the ebook variation of my book through Gumroad and it was a very good experience. Looking forward to the membership part, might use it for another pr…

I liked the beginning of the Three Body Problem, but it got really weird towards the end of the first book. I had already ordered the next 2 books but couldn't motivate myself to k…

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Problem solving under stress (and will get you fit at the same time). A disproportionate amount of our members [0] are programmers or software engineers. [0] h…

Location: Zurich, Switzerland Remote: Yes Relocate: No Technologies: PHP (DDD w/ CQRS/ES), Symfony, React. Interested in Kotlin, maybe Java or C#. Resume: Wrote a book (Professiona…

Check out what happened to the Venera landers. It's really hostile at the surface.

From the ground. Building materials etc. If you want to build a closed system, it doesn't make sense to put it into a gravity well.

But where do you get additional resources?

If your doors are sturdy, make a knot in a towel, hang it over the door and close it. Use that to do pullups. I used to do this a lot during traveling. You can also do inverted row…

Your problem is all the anaerobic-lactic work. Anaerobic-lactic training leads to quick gain over the short-term, but after 3-4 weeks you plateau and from then on you burn out if y…

Depends, what kind of application are you trying to build? What programming language? I wrote my book Professional PHP [0] as a guide like that, but of course it's heavily skewed t…

Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio by Mike Senior is what you are looking for.

I used pandoc to format my book [0]. Not everything worked perfectly, I'm pretty happy with how everything turned out (especially the print version). It was a little work to set up…

This is probably bad timing with the Uncle Bob controversy on Twitter recently, but the book is good nonetheless.

There is nothing wrong with using null in PHP...

I feel your pain. That's my biggest gripe with Symfony. Sometimes it feels like I am spending more time configuring that programming.

That's not true. I've worked on large applications with frameworks (CodeIgniter, Symfony) and without frameworks (but with composer packages). In the beginning you might spend a li…

That's what an IDE is for. I've been programming PHP for over a decade and since I switched to an IDE this became a non-issue for me.