Guilt-Driven Development

A few weeks ago, the day before Midsummer, I went on my summer holiday. I merged my last pull requests and shut down my computer, looking forward to a few weeks of relaxing. Come Midsummer morning, I checked my work emails 1 and I noticed that a failure had been reported earlier that day for one of the services I maintain. 1. Maybe a bad habit, but I tend to at least skim the subject lines while…