Give Me Back My Monolith
Give Me Back My Monolith by Craig Kerstiens is something I have been ranting about for quite some time. It is thus good to see other people standing on the same side of the bridge:As we ventured into micro-services onboarding time skyrocketed. Yes, we have docker and orchestration such…
Using Ephemeral Docker Containers as CLI Applications
Docker containers have proven themselves extremely useful in allowing developers to sandbox environments and ease the deployment of services. Have a complicated service setup? No worries. Simply, describe the steps in a Dockerfile and you should be able to replicate the process on every host OS that has Docker support.…
... a key feature of deep NREM sleep, which predominates early in the night, is to do the work of weeding out and removing unnecessary neural connections. In contrast, the dreaming stage of REM sleep p, which prevails later in the night, plays a role in strengthening those connections.
from the book Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matt Walker.
A Few Notes on PWAs
Progressive Web apps (PWAs) have been an open topic for a few years now, but not until recently, have they become so interesting. Nowadays, every second app you run on our mobile/desktop devices is essentially a Web app sitting inside a Web view. It seems like the logical next…
Introducing DevNotes
With a few short micro-post exceptions, my blog has been relatively quiet over the past month. The reason for this is simple. I have devoted much of my writing resources of the past weeks into a new site. A wiki called DevNotes.That is right, I have started a separate…
First 21K for 2019
Today, I finished my first 21K run for 2019. This move was partially inspired by the fact that I haven't really run a distance much longer than 10-15K for the last 6 months. The other part though, was that I got into a challenge with my colleagues, using a clever…
Last week, I finally bought the full license for Alfred. I have been looking at Alfred for several years now, never really coming to the impulsive decision to actually buy the license. I have been relatively happy with what Launchbar offers, event in the free version, but Alfred Workflows are a whole different game. These are definitely the most well-invested 25 EUR I have put on a piece of software for a while.