Peter Cresswell

JetBrains has recently introduced a new font called Mono and I love it. It’s intelligent in its considerations (ILlo0O all look distinctly different) and its ligatures are perfect for developers (see -> or ### for examples). Just for fun, I’ve switched my entire blog over to using it. Overkill? You bet. But why not show it off. If you’re writing code, I strongly encourage you to have a look. Read more from JetBrains.

Recently listened to a podcast with Peter Attia and Jason Fung on the topic of fasting. I’ve been a fan of Peter Attia’s for a bit now but I have not read or listened to his work lately. While Peter is still a big advocate of low carb diets, he’s also evolving to include time restricted eating patterns into his framework. He put together a great summary of his framework. I strongly encourage you to watch it.

At DoctorCare we’re a believer in the simplicity and value of continuous delivery. We try and avoid long lived branches. All pull requests go to master and master always ships. In fact, there’s no way not to ship master once a PR is merged (outside of stopping the build mind you). For the most part, we’re OK at this. Not great. But ok. We’re running a django application using Bitbucket Pipelines for deployments into AWS Beanstalk with a Postgresql RDS backend. That’s a pretty vanilla deployment if ever there was one and we’re happy to keep it simple.

A year ago, the software team at DoctorCare was a team of one. Just me. Since then, I have added two developers to the team, both junior. In previous positions, I’ve lead teams of up to 20 developers but in the past 5 years or so of working as a contractor and, in the past year, as a full time employee again, I haven’t had to play the team lead role. With this new growth of the team, I’m back to leading developers again.

There was a great tweet by @sassal0x about the progress that Ethereum has made since 2017 when it first hit the price of $150. What’s different since we last hit this price? A lot. Ether first hit $150 on May 22nd 2017 - how has the Ethereum network grown since then? pic.twitter.com/woggzoXLkk — Anthony Sassano (@sassal0x) April 5, 2019 Price is not progress. Progress is progress. And by many different measures, Ethereum is showing great progress.