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it is tuesday my dudes :P

Seeing the same.

This was my introduction to drawing. You will not be disappointed. Drawing from Bargue's lithographs will teach you technique, and taste.

Look for didactic materials and approaches used by the French Academic painters of the nineteenth century. A good book about the sight-size technique of drawing and painting should…

"Easily", not sure that is always easy to do. Is a clever approach to be sure, but to the author's point there could probably be better UX.

Of course anyone can look anything up. The point I think the author is making is that the database is better positioned to tell us about potential performance issues. Would be wond…

This author is spot on. Raise your hand if you've committed the PostgreSQL to memory for looking at the DDL for a table, or identifying slow queries. Too many database management o…

Yes, absolutely. I did at 35. Find the aspects of the work you love the most and let them guide you. A bootcamp or similar educational experience should help you ask the right ques…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

No it's been a total fucking nightmare. Take care of yourselves out there! Meditation helps me keep my lid on.

Cultural problems are hard to change. If you like your team, one option might be to simply begin testing your own code and ask people to review your work. Don't be overly optimisti…

Testing is a skill to learn like anything else. Teams that dogmatically apply any new practice or process without making a genuine effort to learn that thing will never extract val…

I think you have some things to learn, as a manager, and as an engineer.

A small step up from the pit of despair we're in should not be confused for meaningful progress, though we should fully expect the Trump administration will soon be releasing misle…

Forgot to mention: we were not a Rails shop, but I think the kind of code or framework being used isn't the most important challenge here.

I worked for a company that did this, and our scale was quite large. It took a lot of work to get AWS to give us more and more databases on RDS. We had some unique challenges with …

Cognito has an awful API and worse documentation. It's also super limited in terms of how user metadata is represented, is hard to query efficiently for users meeting certain crite…

> What a typical 100% Serverless Architecture looks like in AWS Does it look like an unmaintanable untestable mess?

Mullet? Check.

A gentle beginning is a great thing to shoot for. I would second the recommendation of a Starting Strength program, or something similar, where you can work a clear, well-establish…

An excellent therapist is always a good thing to identify, but excersize can definitely also have a massive impact on self esteem, energy levels, and mood in general. I found that …

A pissing match between two unrelated branches of an enormous org chart has caused monumental waste and discord where I work as a software engineer. My employer is also allergic to…

I suspect the majority of people who claim to disdain SOLID principles are in fact using them every day without realizing it. Seems pretty disturbing that so many engineers are pil…

Test your code, or stay the hell away from me. :)

Yes, so good. Martin Fowler's Refactoring is an excellent companion to Feathers' book.