I've never been a fan of coffee, but I liked drinking it, but more out of habit than desire, and always at work (rarely at home). Years ago I started to notice terrible headaches on the weekends, and only after a long time did I manage to understand that coffee withdrawal was the cause. For me the conclusion was obvious: I will no longer take something that affects my body at this level. I have the same problem with Coke/Pepsi, I stopped taking it too.
Fun fact: on the same day I noticed and stopped taking it coffee, 5 days later I had terrible muscle pain in my lower back (I could hardly sleep). 2 days later I had no more pain. I researched later and saw that this type of pain could also be caused as an effect of caffeine withdrawal.
This reminds me of something I did in one of the previous companies where I worked.
Like anyone else, when I joined the company, I had various questions: how to access certain systems, how to handle permissions, how to debug specific services, etc.
I compiled all these questions and answers as notes in a Git repository that my teammates could access. I wrote the notes using QOwnNotes, utilizing its Git integration. So, when someone had a question for which I already had the answer, I could simply share my notes, or create/update a node and share it.
The names of the notes were straightforward and easy to follow, such as:
- aws.md
- azure.md
- kubernetes.md
- staging.md
- production.md
- useful-commands.md (jq, sed, base64, etc)
My teammates used this resource frequently. As I was preparing to leave the company, I suggested them to fork my notes repository. I later heard that they continued to use it for many months afterward.
After read about the poor scenario where the Linux accessibility tools is today (https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-d...), I was wondering: if maybe the developers start to use these accessibility tools to improve their speed reading (and productivity as well), this could also helps to prioritize the accessibility features and bug fixes in Gnome, KDE, Qt, etc.
I totally support that. I know that this can create bad habits, but not everyone wants to become a great piano player; some of us just want to have some fun playing.
I know that this can sound counterintuitive, but the best strategy to keep the phone away from me is to be on my desktop computer.
Different from when I'm on my smartphone, I do not feel any anxiety to check social networks using my computer. So I can focus more on learning some stuff, coding, organizing my personal data, checking my appointments, checking the tech news, or even playing some games (to have some fun).
The model is good to solve problems, but is very difficult to control the unnecessary changes that the model does in the rest of the code. Also it adds a lot of unnecessary comments, even when I explicitly say to not add.
For now Deepseek R1 and V3 it's working better to me, producing more predictable results and capturing better my intentions (not tried Claude yet).
> Mantras like "methods should be shorter than 15 lines of code" or "classes should be small" turned out to be somewhat wrong.
I really have some concerns about this kind of opinion.
I know that we can't follow this rule (or smell) every time, but I already see this affirmation being used by very poor or inexperienced programmers to justify understandable gigantic and hard to test pieces of code.
This is the type of advice that just experienced programmers can understand what this means and know when is applied.
I have a different perception, really. They are promoting more the Reddit results in the last months and, at least for me, I'm able to find faster what I want.
I am using TestContainers, what basically is able to run a Docker image of PostgreSQL, abstracting a lot of details. You can find a working example of this setup for integration tests using Go, testify and PosgreSQL here: https://github.com/dherik/ddd-golang-project
For Java services using MySQL, I was able to use just the H2 database (in-memory) many times. Does a decent job and it's very compatible with MySQL. If you try to avoid specific features from the databases, this in-memory database can do a decent (and fast) job running integration tests.
Fun fact: on the same day I noticed and stopped taking it coffee, 5 days later I had terrible muscle pain in my lower back (I could hardly sleep). 2 days later I had no more pain. I researched later and saw that this type of pain could also be caused as an effect of caffeine withdrawal.