Peter Cresswell

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.

I’ve been a long time user of the safari browser. Chrome always seemed like a great deal but lately it’s been getting too close to google. But my employer is a big GSuite user which means that I need a Chrome compatible browser for Google Hangout meetings (now called Meet and soon to be called something else I’m sure). So Safari doesn’t quite cover me. Enter the Brave Browser Oddly, I heard about Basic Attention Token well before I understood that they had a browser. But they do. And it’s really good.

Today was a wild day for the crypto currency markets. At this point, swings of $100 USD for Ether are starting to become more common which is bonkers since the price of Ether at “closing” today was about $400 or so. Ethereum is starting to bite into Bitcoin’s market share, both in the financial sense and in the attention space. Even Vladimir Putin seems to be getting interested. I’ve been a huge believer (and decent ETH holder) in the project since I heard about it a few years back. It’s going to radically change the world (side note; I’ve never said this about other projects before so I’m not some kool aid drinker by heart). Today’s volatility can be gut wrenching to watch in real time and I’ve certainly stepped back from the console on a couple of occasions to avoid motion sickness. But if you ask yourself if Ether will be worth more 5 years from now the answer is certainly a huge “Yes”.