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  1. Can a person have 20 years of experience or five years, repeated four times?

    1. Blocking TCP port 53 traffic leads to very strange failures. Don't.
    2. The source you're looking at is not the code running in production.
    3. "Prod" is just another name for "staging".
  2. Article series:

    Presentations:

    I’m more and more convinced that staging environments are like mocks - at best a pale imitation of the genuine article and the worst form of confirmation bias.

    It’s still better than having nothing - but “works in staging” is only one step better than “works on my machine”.

  3. "It's hard to start using frameworks if you don't understand the problems that they aim to solve."