Dan Mayer danmayer

I have twice recently been asked what to do in Amsterdam with kids... Clearly need to blog this but for now.

I recall you are biking folks, so rent some bikes, you can get one with a variety of child attachments for the 4 year old. If after walking through the city that kind of biking doesn't look fun... Rent bikes and visit Vondelpark, regardless of bike riding Vondelpark is awesome to walk through.

I frequently stayed very close to Anne Frank's house while there as my old office was walking distance from that.

If you do a boat tour I highly recommend "Those damn boat guys" We have done that twice with Theo (who is now 2)
they are smaller boats/groups, and less stodgy very funny and factual kind of stand-up comedy like history

Book	Theme	Recommended By	Notes
[Remote: Office Not Required](http://batman.com)	Distributed Work	Moyinoluwa Adeyemi	A great book about how to function as a distributed team. Full review here: https://tech.offgrid-electric.com/book-review-remote-office-not-required-e75e19c68529
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity	Communication / Team Management	Thor Muller	From the time we learn to speak, we’re told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. When you become a manager, it’s your job to say it--and your obligation.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0	Communication / Self Management	Dian	four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential: 1) Self-Awareness 2) Self-Management 3) Social Awareness 4) Relationship Management
Creativity, Inc - Ed Catmull	Creative work / Collaboration	Dan Mayer	How to encourage deep thought and creativity in a working environment, told through the story of Pixar

	# frozen_string_literal: true

	class SlowCall
	def self.work
	@work \|\|= Concurrent::Promises.future(name: "load #{self.class.name}") do
	sleep 2
	Time.now
	end
	end
	end

	# frozen_string_literal: true

	class Dog
	def bark
	'woof'
	end
	end

	# NOTE: We monkey patch because the unknown_asset_fallback option
	# doesn't seem to do what we expect, when compile scss see more below
	#
	# Rails.application.config.assets.unknown_asset_fallback = false
	# ^^ The above works for image_tag("head_liner.svg") references, but fails for scss
	#
	# This patch ensures we also fail on scss
	# patched against: sprockets (3.7.2), sprockets-rails (3.2.1), sass-rails (5.1.0)
	# I suspect it is slightly different and perhaps the config works as expected in differnt versions
	# of sprockets, sprockets-rails, sass-rails

	require 'byebug'
	require 'json'
	require 'time'

	#####
	# A quick and dirty script to compare the success rate of branches on CircleCI.
	#
	# This script will run a project and banch X number of times and calculate it's success / failure rate.
	# Inititally developed to track and fix a flaky test suite, it should be easily modifiable to help with
	# any CircleCI project that includes flaky jobs.

	require 'byebug'
	require 'json'
	require 'time'

	#####
	# This script is a quick and dirty way to check the success rate of an individual test file.
	#
	# Purpose:
	# run a test file many times and figure out how flaky it is, reporting the success rate and logging any errors
	#

	####
	# This can be inserted in a before filter, or an endpoint causing cookie overflows
	# this will log data for users who are approaching the max_cookie_size
	# it will also for the most common cookie to overflow session, break down the size by key value pairs.
	# This logs cookie and key names, but none of the data which may include PII, it just logs the byte sizes
	#
	# How to read:
	# Cookie Debug (size: 3280) # overall cookies total size in bytes
	# [COOKIE_NAME] size=IN_BYTES # these are sorted by smallest to largest byte size
	# session: [KEY] size=IN_BYTES # for the session cookie, the key name with values in byte size sorted

	# These tasks should be called from your deploy process or countinious deployment server script, something like below
	namespace :production do
	desc 'production deployment'
	task deploy: 'docker:build:push' do \|t, args\|
	release_notes_and_tagging
	end
	end

	###
	# Update releases.txt file with deployed tickets