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I wrote my own feedback below but left out this crucial piece you've mentioned here. I think to add to it, my family treats it as if I'm not there. I can't watch the kiddos for a f…

I've had successes and failures working four years remotely, so that's my disclaimer. But the key for me has been to have a dedicated space with a dedicated computer for work. If i…

Author here, great link—thanks! Do you know of any coverage tools that implement this?

The difference is that I am not proposing a Turing complete config language, but rather proposing to build configurations with plain old JavaScript (or whatever language you want).…

I wrote a little library for building DSLs in JavaScript [0] because of this very issue—JSON is not good for this kind of stuff. I want to be able to create small DSLs to solve pro…

I made my own little language called Geneva [0] for similar ideas but it acts as code and can be parsed as JSON. I also came up with a spec for doing this for HTML [1] (but no code…

One of the most transformative things I've come across for how to structure and test code has been Gary Bernhardt's talk on Boundaries [0]. I've watched it at least ten times. He a…

You might find it useful to spend some time looking into the hypermedia constraint of REST itself (i.e. hypermedia as the engine of application state). The point of REST is to repr…

True. I would consider a continuous stream like that to not be helpful change management. But if you have to have continuous breaking changes like that, you would want clean cuts. …

Name it whatever you want. Point is, you don't have to plan for such a drastic change when a separate domain/subdomain will solve it for you.

I think you are right here. It takes two to tango, and if the clients are tightly coupled to the API, the best intentions for evolving slowly will fail. :)

That's true. However, I think this falls under YAGNI [0]. If you happen to get to a point where you have to change your an entire API rather than evolve what you have, you should c…

I've seen some use a versioned media typed like GitHub [0] or add a version parameter like "vnd.example-com.foo+json; version=1.0" [1]. People may use this version for the entire A…

I personally like to think about managing change well rather than versioning an entire API. In this, API designers provide instructions on how APIs will evolve over time, how featu…

For those who do daily standups via a Slack channel, I made a little tool to help me. https://www.npmjs.com/package/onit

lol, the doctor mentioned this! That's hilarious. The timing was definitely a coincidence for me though.

Just to note, I'm seven days post-op on this procedure :) And while I did not take any meds, I was happy to be sitting in bed with an ice pack watching March Madness. So there was …

Just to add, I don't want my comments to scare any males considering the option. If you are at the time in life to stop having children, and you have no condition preventing the pr…

Just to note, vasectomies are no walk in the park, and should be treated as final rather than a simple contraception option (though they can be reversed, just not easily). While yo…