| KIKK Festival |
|
| KIKK Festival is a mix of technology, visual arts, music, Architecture, design and interactive media | |
| Skylight |
|
| Web app profiling tool. | |
| CloudHero |
|
| Secure Docker Container as a Service For Developers (beta, free container for now). | |
| pgslice |
|
| Postgres partitioning tool. | |
| Pagelet_rails |
|
| Improve perceived performance of your rails application with minimum effort | |
| Tlaw |
|
| Pragmatic API wrapper framework. | |
| Optimize-js |
|
| Optimize a JavaScript file for faster initial load by wrapping eagerly-invoked functions | |
| Gallium |
|
| Build desktop applications in Go and HTML. Kinda like Electron. | |
| Sqlint |
|
| Simple SQL linter | |
| Pageflow |
|
| Multimedia story telling for the web. | |
| BedquiltDB |
|
| JSON document-store built on PostgreSQL. | |
| Microservices using Rails, HTTP and RabbitMQ |
sep 19
|
| Example of decoupling an app to micro services. | |
| Programs that rewrite Ruby programs |
sep 20
|
| Several gems that convert or edit your code based on syntax upgrade or linting. | |
| DRYing Up Your Ruby Module |
sep 20
|
| Refactor a Ruby module and see the DRY principle in action | |
| Understanding REST And RPC For HTTP APIs |
sep 20
|
| Knowing the differences between REST and RPC. | |
| A couple of words about interactors in Rails |
sep 21
|
| How to structure a Ruby on Rails applications following Domain Driven Design. | |
| 9 Underutilized Features in CSS |
sep 22
|
| There are many old, often-overlooked features in CSS specs which offer some very handy functionality. | |
| Chatbots: Your Ultimate Prototyping Tool |
sep 22
|
| How chatbots can teach us to learn what people need when designing products and services. | |
| The Container Revolution: Reflections After the First Decade |
sep 18
|
| Bryan Cantrill, CTO at Joyent The Container Revolution: Reflections After the First Decade The meteoric rise of Docker brought containers into the limelight. | |
| Applying Graph Theory to Infrastructure |
sep 18
|
| Paul Hinze, Director of Infrastructure at HashiCorp Applying Graph Theory to Infrastructure. | |
Next friday, I've been told that I have to stop working for 2 weeks. Well, for people that have a normal life and/or kids, it's a pretty good news. For people that get heavy pressure from their work, it can give some air. But I wondered why I didn't feel like I ever felt the need for holidays. I take them by principle, but I'm usually not really eager to get them.
After some consideration, it all sums up to some kind of discipline. I refuse stress on a daily basis. I want each day at work to be enjoyable and debt-free. It's a bad news for some category of employers. The same way those consider it's acceptable to accumulate technical debt, they apply the same principle on human-life debt. Put people under pressure, get a loan on their health, that will never be repaid. So, I just refuse pressure, the same way I would refuse to eat meat if I was really vegetarian (which I am only part-time).
Really I have more trouble with holidays because they bring a gap in the continuity of work. You get back and there is a lot to catch up on. I would prefer to have just one hour work less per day than week-long breaks. But that's just me. It would be totally different if I wanted to travel for fun or if I had kids. My case is not reproducible.
But the baseline remains valid. whether you have plans or not for holidays, they should not be required for having a balanced life. Stress has to be fought on a daily basis and not by using breaks. Breaks, in such case, are even more enjoyable, if you have the context for it.
The best way I know to push stress away is to put my efforts into what I do, in a way that I'm self-aware that I'm really doing what I can to fulfill my duties. If someone is not happy about the output, that's their problem not mine. If it leads to some awkward context, then it's broken and I will reach out to find a better work context. I apply that principle for more than 20 years now and I can't remember last time I felt stressed.
