Hah, I was dealing with this problem today. My approach: Add entries for my localhost apps to `/etc/hosts`, and set up nginx as a reverse proxy. Now when I go to `http://myapp.local` in the browser, `/etc/hosts` tells…
On the contrary, in my experience such stateful APIs are a great use case for state machines. You just approach them differently. Instead of doing a blocking call, you introduce a "waiting for <something>" state. You…
The "Pale Blue Dot" photograph strikes the same chord for me. Carl Sagan's reflection on it can be especially moving [1]. [...] The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood…
There's a whole (short) chapter on changes in "Peopleware" [1]. I've just skimmed through it, here are the key points I've found: 1) Change is not a single step. It involves several stages, one of them being chaos. 2)…
I think it's only partially true. Technology products may get pretty depending on who is the consumer. Computers, phones and cars get nice exterior design, because the "general public" uses them, and they are, as you…
I second the OP. The "emotional" motivation has brought me quite far in my life. I always enjoyed learning. I got into programming because it was easily triggering the "reward circuits" in my brain. But as life follows,…
Nobody has mentioned it yet, so I feel obliged to link keyboard.io: http://www.keyboard.io/ They are currently in prototyping phase and they expect to go to Kickstarter this summer. I'm not from their team, I only want…
Hah, I was dealing with this problem today. My approach: Add entries for my localhost apps to `/etc/hosts`, and set up nginx as a reverse proxy. Now when I go to `http://myapp.local` in the browser, `/etc/hosts` tells…
On the contrary, in my experience such stateful APIs are a great use case for state machines. You just approach them differently. Instead of doing a blocking call, you introduce a "waiting for <something>" state. You…
The "Pale Blue Dot" photograph strikes the same chord for me. Carl Sagan's reflection on it can be especially moving [1]. [...] The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood…
There's a whole (short) chapter on changes in "Peopleware" [1]. I've just skimmed through it, here are the key points I've found: 1) Change is not a single step. It involves several stages, one of them being chaos. 2)…
I think it's only partially true. Technology products may get pretty depending on who is the consumer. Computers, phones and cars get nice exterior design, because the "general public" uses them, and they are, as you…
I second the OP. The "emotional" motivation has brought me quite far in my life. I always enjoyed learning. I got into programming because it was easily triggering the "reward circuits" in my brain. But as life follows,…
Nobody has mentioned it yet, so I feel obliged to link keyboard.io: http://www.keyboard.io/ They are currently in prototyping phase and they expect to go to Kickstarter this summer. I'm not from their team, I only want…