https://duncandavidson.com/blog/2019/02/#wine

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https://duncandavidson.com/blog/2019/02/#remote-first

Being on a remote first team means that instead of having to miss your group’s all-hands meeting scheduled for 00:30 your local time, you can wake up the next morning and instantly watch a recording of the meeting and be up-to-date on the conversation happening in Slack (or Teams). I’m glad to be ( Read more... )

https://duncandavidson.com/blog/2019/02/#pitching

Pitching is broken, argues my colleague Ian McDonald. In the London office, Microsoft for Startups no longer requires a pitch. Instead, they use an intake form and then interview.

Isn’t it much better to explicitly ask people for information, rather than hoping that they’ll give you the information in ( Read more... )

https://duncandavidson.com/blog/2019/02/#gastein-valley

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https://duncandavidson.com/blog/2019/02/#ikea

IKEA should make up a word, in that funny IKEA product name way, for that feeling when you’re several hours into a visit having debated twenty-three different options with your partner about stuff for your home; and you’re not even to the marketplace yet where you can buy pots and pans.

And let’s not ( Read more... )

https://duncandavidson.com/blog/2019/02/#thunberg

The real emergency is the climate. Greta Thunberg, an autistic 16 year old from Sweden says everything that needs to be said:

…everyone keeps saying climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all, and yet they just carry on like before. I don’t understand that, because if ( Read more... )

https://duncandavidson.com/blog/2019/02/#guns-in-schools

“Will you move back home?” It’s a question I get from people now and then, especially from the family where home means back to America. My answer is always swift: “For sure, not soon.”

”Why not?” is the predictable question.

There are dozens of reasons, but the one that comes first to my mind is ( Read more... )

https://duncandavidson.com/blog/2019/02/#static-docker

Maxime Rouiller’s article about building a multi-stage Dockerfile for SPA and static sites kind of opened up my mind a little bit. I’m pretty comfortable with containers at this point, but the simplicity of the idea is so damn elegant.

Take an NGINX base layer, and put the static content in on ( Read more... )

https://duncandavidson.com/blog/2019/02/#microblog

A couple of years after activating my Micro.blog account, I’m finally putting it to use. I’ve set it up to pull from the Atom feed from my website and then repost content on both Micro.blog and Twitter.

https://duncandavidson.com/blog/2019/02/#skiing

I think I was 12 years old the first time I went skiing. It was a church youth group event, and we took a charter bus to Copper Mountain. Spending 5 days on the slopes was a great way to learn how to ski. I spent all day, every day on the mountain, and the rest of the time either asleep or listening to ( Read more... )