patricklouys

Using 10lbs for shoulder press does absolutely nothing for your fitness. Even 50lbs barely does anything unless you are completely untrained.

And 10 reps is not low reps either. It's on the upper end of what people usually use in their workouts.

It's not ok to plateau at that level. You will get old, your strength and bone density will go down and it is a lot harder (but still possible) to improve those when you are old.

Much better to start with a lot more than the minimum so you have a decent safety margin (and lifelong habits that will keep you healthy for as long as possible).

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (a large percentage of my training partners happens to be in IT).

It's a fun sport that keeps you fit but is also very cerebral. In a way it's a lot like playing a computer game where you level up your character. You program yourself to execute certain moves in certain scenarios. I have countless notebooks full of flowcharts and notes. Can highly recommend it.

Aerobic training is all about the heart rate. You have to get it up to around 120 or higher (and keep it there for a while) to have a training effect. Unless you are REALLY unfit, walking is probably not enough.

You can also run/walk in intervals as long as you keep the heart rate up. If you want to get fit, a heart rate monitor is a great investment (something like a polar h10 can pair with your smartphone).

Yes, we did all that a few years ago and it's still in use. Clean code, hexagonal architecture, DDD, event sourcing.

Main lesson is that you should not use it for everything (yes, the books say it, but it's easy to overdo it in the beginning). Don't do DDD for the CRUD parts of your app. It works extremely well for business use cases, but it's very bad at CRUD. A mix of both really hits the sweep spot though.

No microservices though, just a monolith. Imo most businesses shouldn't need microservices, only the ones that really need to scale. We definitely don't have anything even close to that.

Thanks for creating it. I sold the ebook variation of my book through Gumroad and it was a very good experience.

Looking forward to the membership part, might use it for another project of mine.

I liked the beginning of the Three Body Problem, but it got really weird towards the end of the first book. I had already ordered the next 2 books but couldn't motivate myself to keep going. Does it get better?

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Remote: Yes

Relocate: No

Technologies: PHP (DDD w/ CQRS/ES), Symfony, React. Interested in Kotlin, maybe Java or C#.

Resume: Wrote a book (Professional PHP). Also see my blog and Github.

Email: [email protected]

Check out what happened to the Venera landers. It's really hostile at the surface.

From the ground. Building materials etc.

If you want to build a closed system, it doesn't make sense to put it into a gravity well.

But where do you get additional resources?

If your doors are sturdy, make a knot in a towel, hang it over the door and close it. Use that to do pullups. I used to do this a lot during traveling.

You can also do inverted rows under a table by holding on to an edge (not comfortable, but works).

You could invest into a dumbbell and/or resistance bands and do row variations. Or a TRX for inverted rows.

Or go to a park or anywhere else where you can hang onto to do your pullups.