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Re: Identifying factors contributing to "bad days" for software developers

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Post by DidYaWipe » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 2:58 AM UTC

DidYaWipe wrote: post #55

florianmartens wrote: post #53

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Try api-fiddle.com as a replacement for stoplight.io :)

Thanks for that. Took a look at it, and... it doesn't handle 3.1 documents correctly. One of the major defects in the OpenAPI document spec pre-3.1 is that you can't put descriptions on any usage of a model in your API. I mean... WTF? So if you had a data structure called User, and you used it to represent users in different roles in your API somehow, you can't annotate the instances of User in your document to say w…

Update on that: I contacted the developer and he fixed that problem in a matter of minutes. Pretty cool!

Re: Identifying factors contributing to "bad days" for software developers

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Post by alextingle » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 9:05 AM UTC

Yenrabbit wrote: post #51

I found an extra one not mentioned in the article when I tried abstaining from caffeine last week. Energy slumps mid day, a few headaches, and overall a major reduction in productivity and fun! Maybe unsurprising to most.

Try cutting down your caffeine really slowly. I did it by gradually cutting caffeinated coffee with slightly more decaff, over months. Eventually I was 100% decaff. Never had any withdrawal (the headaches, and energy slumps you mention).

And now I no longer have any of the bad symptoms caffeine was giving me: nervous tick, wildly fluctuating energy levels, random extreme emotions.

Back when I was younger, caffeine had none of those bad effects on me. But as I grew older, they started to ramp up. Because coffee was such a constant in my life, it took me many years to realise the cause.

Re: Identifying factors contributing to "bad days" for software developers

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Post by aaronblohowiak » Fri, Nov 08, 2024, 4:00 PM UTC

bschwindHN wrote: post #37

sixothree wrote: post #29

Working from home I can report that leaf blowers ruin my day pretty quickly. Some days it will be 4 hours of lawn equipment running.

We could, as a society, ban the use of gas powered leaf blowers.

Many municipalities near here have restrictions on days of use. It’s by neighborhood so you have only one really bad day a week but lawn services can still operate around the week.