For the first time in my life I bought a plant to decor my room. The plant is a Monstera, growing up to 2 meters if watered properly. It actually needs to be watered every two weeks. Now there are various options to remind myself of watering it. Installing an app, set an alarm on my phone or place a paper calendar next to the plant. But this is too easy, lets make it more complicated.
Last week I visited my favorite city Berlin once more. As the season changes so does Berlin. Clear and crisp air, dim lights and early sunsets brought the city into a different perspective. This time I wanted to know more about the GDR (German Democratic Republic) it’s people and the surveillance machinery. For this I visited a Stasi prison and the HQ of the security bureau. It has been a tense and also fulfilling experience visiting this places. I don’t want to talk about the GDR, but recommend everybody to read more about it. It is a remarkable historic event that has not been finished yet. Here are some pictures of the trip:
If you decide to manage your node application repository as a monorepo you sure heard about Yarn workspaces. Yarn has an out-of-the-box support for managing multiple packages in a single codebase. Using yarn workspaces package dependencies can be centralized and packages can reference each other. Tasks can be executed for all packages at once. It solves various build related problems for a monorepo.
The Apollo Graphql documention offers a pretty comprehensive guide on how to test your Graphql API. But sure its different once you implement tests for your non generic project. That is why I wrote this post. First I would like to introduce you to integration tests and how they are different from the other testing levels. And then I’ll give you a hands on experience for writing integration tests for Apollo Graphql with Ava.
Personal intro:
There are these moments when you face a sheer unsolvable conflict in life. This conflict can be of a personal nature or be a dispute at the workplace. A lack of sleep might be a side effect. A lack of orientation and perspective become an enduring feeling.
Localhost is where the home is. The perfect playlist when you are alone at home.
I found this funny text editor, started writing a story and this was the result:
The markdown ecosystem is growing. Markdown has become an universal standard with various extensions. Software repositories, websites, documentation systems, all store their content in markdown. This blog is written in markdown as well.
Of course there are downsides to markdown. Portability comes at the cost of missing features. Thus you have to built them on your own. If you run a blog you probably reference tons of other stuff on the internet. Links that point to usefult resources or nowhere. I wanted to find out which links in my markdown documents are dead.
This post was first published at Abilium - Blog.
Recently, we decided to setup a new monitoring service. We opted for the ELK stack. The ELK stack constists of three products:
I tend to come up with the important questions always a bit late. “Why do I not like working in hierarchical organizations?” is the question I should have asked a year ago. I gave it some thought and here are my notes.