christianity
I think it is human nature that we are constantly disappointed with ourselves and others. One fundamental driver for this is our struggle between altruism and selfishness. We are programmed to be supportive and helpful to those around us but we are also programmed to look out for our own
meditation
Although our thoughts are arguably very important for who we are, we are often unaware of what is occupying our mind at any given moment. In this post, I describe a simple practice which helps in increasing awareness of our mind and thoughts. These are the two simple steps to
breathing
With all the distractions in our life, we often forget what is most fundamental to our existence: our own bodies. We should take time to be mindful of how our body feels. Do we have pain somewhere? Do we feel relaxed or tense? This is the first post of a
devops
Sometimes it feels that it takes more time setting up the infrastructure of an application that actually writing the application code. The following infographic from gruntwork nicely illustrates this by showing the breath of tasks one needs to undertake to get a production-grade infrastructure running:
graphql
Following up on the GraphQL, Node.JS and React Monorepo Starter Kit and GraphQL Apollo Starter Kit (Lerna, Node.js), I have now created an extended example which includes facilities to run unit and integration tests using Jest. The code can be found on GitHub: apollo-client-server-tests The following tests are
graphql
Following the GraphQL Apollo Starter Kit (Lerna, Node.js), I wanted to dig deeper into developing a monorepo for a GraphQL/React client-server application. Unfortunately, things are not as easy as I thought at first. Chiefly the create-react-app template does not appear to work very well with monorepos and local
graphql
In many ways developing in Node.js is very fast and lightweight. However it can also be bewildering at times. Mostly so since for everything there seems to be more than one established way of doing things. Moreover, the right way to do something can change within 3 to 6
project-management
Time is a key resource in software development and we need to consider it in two fundamental ways: (1) Total amount of effort measured by time goes into delivering software. (2) Deadlines by which the software needs to be completed. The project management triangle provides the insight that these two
programming
It is no secret that things in the tech world change rather rapidly. It's difficult to keep track of everything at the same time. For instance I have been working with JavaScript quite extensively some years ago but recently have been more involved with other tech stacks. Thus
programming
Today I was having a look around for best practices for defining JavaScript modules. In that search, I came across the book Mastering Modular JavaScript. This book offers a good selection of best practices for JS module development. Also, all chapters are freely available on GitHub: * Chapter 1: Module Thinking
programming
For a few years now, micro services have been all the rage when it comes to the architecture of large applications. Personally I have always been a bit puzzled about what was so new a great about micro services in comparison to what came before them: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
environment
I recently read an article published by a German newspaper which was discussed how our future might look like in 2037. Trying to predict the future is something which has always fascinated me. I think we do far too little of that in comparison with how much of our attention
