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

	name,ring,quadrant,isNew,status,description
	Memcached,Hold,Techniques,FALSE,new,We prefer memcaced over other caching backends
	Async Memcached,Trail,Techniques,FALSE,new,We want to support async cache operations
	NonBlocking Memcached,Trial,Techniques,TRUE,new,We want all caching IO to be nonblocking to better leverage our machines
	Memory Maps,Assess,Techniques,TRUE,new,We are interested in exploring memory maps for low latency large data access
	McRouter,Hold,Techniques,FALSE,new,We are using this technology until we can replace it
	Memcached,Adopt,Platforms,FALSE,no change,We prefer memcaced over other caching backends
	Ruby Caching Client,Trial,Platforms,FALSE,moved in,We prefer a Ruby caching client vs a Ruby/Rust client
	Rust Caching Client,Hold,Platforms,FALSE,moved out,When possibly we want to avoid mixing Ruby and Rust in our client APIs
	Conan,Adopt,Tools,TRUE,new,"<p><strong><a href=""https://conan.io/"">Conan</a></strong> is an open-source dependency management tool for C/C++ applications. It provides an

	# 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.

	####
	# 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