I've been bingeing How I Met Your Mother, a show I had not previously heard of I find it very entertaining generally; it's worth turning a critical eye on its treatment of gender

Let's talk about "work ethic" Those of us who started making software largely to REDUCE the amount of work we had to do will have an easier time seeing the lie in "work ethic" when it comes to software development

I've spent a few hours spiking a first AWS microservice to extract from our Rails monolith. I had thought to use the node.js runtime, because "JS is a lingua franca among web devs" (maintainability), and given I know JS, it should be easy to get going, right? WRONG Hoo boy. node.js and async-first JS is nothing like anything I've encountered in the browser. I spent most of the time slamming my head against learning the ins and outs of async/await and how to cross seams between promise rejection and traditional errors