Welcome to the 48th edition of The Catch Block! In this edition, we introduce a new series about burnout and its causes. Plus: EF Core, HTML-over-WebSockets, procrastination, nitpicking, and insanity. Introducing the Burnout Series I've always been fascinated by the idea of burnout, largely because it hasn't hit me yet.
I've been thinking quite a bit about a particular tweet from Safia Abdalla [https://twitter.com/captainsafia]: > A perhaps unpopular opinion (and a little ironic coming from me). You don’t have to write blog posts, contribute to open source, give technical talks, or anything else to be a capable
When companies put out ads glorifying workers who willingly sacrifice time for money, who wins? Hint: not you.
Our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) build system (that we recently implemented [https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/the-sublime-joy-of-continuous-integration-and-continuous-deployment/] ) is truly a joy to behold, but it's also basically magic from my perspective. Check some code in, wait a few minutes, something happens, and then BOOM it's on the dev
I refuse to work overtime. In the five years I've been at my current company, I've worked overtime exactly once, and that was because our server was literally on fire. Overtime is just not worth it to me. I'm a salaried employee. A rather well-paid salaried employee, at least compared