Weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books and anything else we felt compelled to share with others
Year 2 - Edition 20
A Fistful of Links is a weekly newsletter about leadership, technology, books, and anything else we felt compelled to share with others, brought to you by Og Maciel and Mirek Długosz.
9 Pieces of Career Advice that Led to My Dream Job
“When I think about how I recently won the fight for finding work I love, I cannot identify one moment in particular. However, I can pinpoint key moments, when someone who cared about me, said something that either helped me to continue on the right path, or helped me to get back on it.
Below are those 9 pieces of advice.”
print style debugging is a form of debugging where print statements are inserted to print values of expressions or variables that we need to track. loggers are common if we want to use the log statements in production. But there are many times where quick print statements will do the trick in debugging and understanding the control flow.
Elixir, the Phoenix framework, and the Erlang VM allows us to make production ready systems fast, easily, and with very few moving parts. At this point, you can see where we’re going with this. Let’s use what comes out of the box with Elixir to create a link shortener and prevent a $500 monthly bill.
At PyCon 2019, Microsoft’s Python and Visual Studio Code team announced remote development in Visual Studio Code, enabling Visual Studio Code developers to work in development setups where their code and tools are running remotely inside of docker containers, remote SSH hosts, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), while you still get a rich and seamless user experience locally.
The Prague Astronomical Clock is one of the city's most popular landmarks. It is well over 600 years old and is one of the oldest functional astronomical clocks in the world.