Life's about the journey, not the destination. Shall we share a moment on our travels?
When you have a production system with CI/CD letting engineers deploy multiple times a day, you do not want to have downtime everytime you do so, yet many running Django applications let this happen whenever they run migrations. In this piece we delve into why, then how it can be mitigated.
Imagine being an amateur endurance athletes that competes. In this day and age, you might feel encouraged to monitor your performance and other metrics to work out how to improve and get over the line first. Below is data from a recent workout of mine (aggregated every kilometre) and it is reporting averaged physical quantities X and Y for each data point. X is what you want to improve to get over…
Unlike the UK and the States, in the Netherlands payment by cheque is unheard of and credit card much less common. The main method of payment are cash, and increasingly, debit card. The death of cheques is brilliant, there is a problem with the debit cards however: they do not have a 16-digit code which can be used for online payments. In 2005, iDEAL was introduced to deal with this problem, by…
Part of the human condition is that we really, really like free (sometimes we get very upset when something is not free anymore). Unlike reports to the contrary, I am human and thus also very much like free stuff. Moving involves breaking and buying items: I did a lot of both during my recent move. Before my journey I bought an external hard drive to back up my data1 and a friend bought me a…
No establishment I have ever studied or worked at has smoothed this kink. You arrive, freshly shaven (or not in my case), dressed smart (casual) and trying to emit all the reasons why you were admitted or hired. Unfortunately they do not keep up appearances, without fail, you will not be able to access your internal account, and so hence the intranet nor internet and so your work and life grinds…
Creating accounts online is a chore that each of us has to go through, be it for a bank, shop or some semi-legal website where you can watch your latest fix of Game of Thrones. You fill in a username and password (somehow fulfilling the ever crazier requirements) and the browser does the rest for you (if you are lucky). Pressing submit however does not give you an account: there is more stuff to…
Arriving in a new city, country or continent you start with a blank slate and so first impressions are going to have a disproportionate impact. During my move to the States, my first potentially troublesome interaction came with a bus driver: I only had about 5 times the fare, not the exact change required, on the other hand, I was allowed to travel for free—with the university card that I had not…