Head of Product at Temporal. Previously lead architect and low-level systems programmer for scale out SaaS offering. Game engine developer, ML engineering expert. DMs open on Twitter.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I'm going to take the first week of the Fringe off. I've lived there for 15 years, work at the place that built half the software, and I've never really been to anything before :)
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I used to live on the Royal Mile for three years, Fringe time was always mental! But super fun. Never took the week/month off but always caught a lot of shows.
Currently on my 4th week on the yearly holiday, returning to the office next Monday. I try to keep 4 weeks of holiday during summer and 1 during winter and then I'm lucky enough to work for a company that is flexible enough that I can take unpaid holidays to have longer weekends or recover every now and then with extra days off.
Those 4 weeks in summer... is this some Scandinavian thing? I heard, that in Sweden, usually in july everything stops, because who ever can, takes the whole month off.
Yeah, I live in Finland where you get 2.5 days of paid mandatory vacation per month worked which totals to 30 days. For each 5 days of holiday spent, you also lose one extra day (some old rule from the days when people worked 6d/wk).
So that makes it basically 5 weeks of holiday and people usually spend 4 of those during the summer and 1 during the winter.
Going to Florida at some point in the coming few months. Will be the first time our whole family has been back to the States together since we moved abroad a year ago! (Yes, a trip to Disney World is definitely happening.)
I’m a full stack developer who has experience with several front-end tools like Reactjs, Vuejs, and jQuery as well as some back-end tools like PHP, Laravel, Node, and Express.
Location
IL
Education
AAS in Information Technology/Web Development
Work
Senior Software Development Engineer at Wizards of the Coast
I’m planning my next 3 vacations at the moment. I spent the last year of my life in overdrive with no break in sight. I hurt people close to me because I got so high strung. I’m not making that mistake again.
I am a Software Developer for a top 50 Fortune 500 Company where my team specializes in Dev-Ops, by night I am a web developer trying to sharpen my skills and enhance my personal website project!
I wish, this summer I sacrificed beach time in order to do my internship alongside taking a summer class so I can graduate in the fall. Next summer I be able to plan more trips since I'll hopefully have a full-time job, with little to no debt
At my 30s I found out that there was a developer inside a Political Science Graduated.
I've been COO an CMO for 4 years but I decided to persue my dream and become a Front-end developer:)
Location
Elche, Alicante, Spain
Education
Certificate of Higher Education for Web Applications Development & Degree in Political Science
I'm going to Disney World in February with my sister, her friend, and the friend's boyfriend, but other than race registrations, nothing is planned for that trip. I do have tentative dates in my head ... does that count?
Leaving for Athens to see my family in a month, and then off to Vancouver and the surroundings in September ! Can't wait to disconnect for a short while 😄
Next one isn't planned yet, but I went on a week-long family camping trip 3 weeks ago. Other than for maps/GPS while driving, my phone was off. Been a while since I had been (mostly) off grid, and it was beautiful.
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Had been planning to do our third EDC in May 2020 (even started on the installment ticket-plan). Unfortunately, last week, a very bad veterinary diagnosis pretty much derailed that. Even if though I'll likely continue to have the PTO to burn, all my previously spare money is now spoken for.
I'm Jake Cahill. Lifetime Pythonista, web scraping and automation expert. Enjoy books. Love my wife, dog, and cat, and think AI and Julia are pretty nifty
Location
Maine, USA
Education
A Master's patient mentorship and insatiable curiosity
What's a "vacation"? Is that where you don't work for days at a time? I think I remember a time when I didn't work for a while and it was really stressful. I don't think I want to do that again anytime soon... 🤣🤣😜😜
I have an annual trip to Iceland planned every year. Helps me get out of the Arizona heat for a couple of weeks and get in touch with nature for once. I usually end up doing some remote work but it's definitely a good break!
Absolutely! I leave Monday night for Illinois where I'll spend just over a week hanging out with my best friend. I'm borrowing a computer while I'm there to remote in to present at a conference (on the topic of burnout) otherwise my iPad is the only device I'm bringing aside from my phone and only to draw with.
In October myself and a good friend are travelling to Austin for Artifact Conf and we're going to spend an extra few days after the conference hunting for good eats!
In November I'll likely visit my parents on the coast and see if I can't drag an aunty or two with me.
I used to not take vacations but after hitting burnout I have learned just how important they are.
The beauty of contracting is being able to allocate blocks of time for vacation and travel!
I'm planning 2-3 months later this year, during which I'll be traveling within North America and Oceana, researching potential employers and brushing up on my React and .NET skills.
It's not a vacation per se but I'm taking one month of paid parental leave in August as soon as Player 2 is there (the second son). I guess I'll spread my remaining vacation-days over the fourth quarter of the year, or just take the entire december off.
I'm going to London for a week around the 21st of July.
I've never been to London before, but my girlfriend really wanted to go.
I'm not very good at taking vacations, but I hope that I might get better at it 😃
I'm a professional PHP, Python and Javascript developer from the UK. I've worked with Django, Laravel, and React, among others. I also maintain a legacy Zend 1 application.
I have a week off later this month, but need to set up something to do. I live within a reasonably short train journey of Cambridge so am considering going to the Raspberry Pi store there.
I'm notoriously bad for taking time off, to the point I pretty much have to be made to.
I'm off on two weeks holiday in a few weeks. I'm going home to Ireland to see family and myself and my partner are also going to drive around as much of the island as we can because she's only seen a couple of places in Ireland when I've taken her home a few times before. I'm really looking forward to it because I haven't been home in ages but also because I've been feeling a bit burnt out lately.
I haven't been on a vacation in my life. Unless you consider my senior class trip in 2003 where my school took us to Disney/Orlando Studios/Daytona Florida for 9 days.
Just forgot:
First Weekend in August My wife and I are going to Venice for our Wedding Anniversary. And at the end of August we join her parents in Denmark for a week.
Planning a trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands this October/November. Before that, I'll spend two weeks in California next month for a work/fun combination trip. Can't wait for both!
Frontend developer by day, iOS developer by night. Currently working on learning iOS development and my own blog, Mike Decodes, where I'm decoding the tech industry. Come hang out with me on Twitter!
Unfortunately, I have a hard time planning my vacation. As I do a lot of different jobs, it's hard to convince myself that it's okay to take a longer break.
Nope, I don't event know where would I go. Living with myself all the time, I don't feel like traveling the world, perhaps I'm going to get a vacation to play a video game or something ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Just went down to Tennessee, in the middle of nowhere to meet the grandparent inlaws. Next trip... Maybe Hawaii (that's home for me, not some paradise trip)
Yes! Going to Prague, Vienna, and Munich in August. Should be great fun! If anyone from around there has recommendations on things to see/do/eat, let me know!
I appreciate these new joke threads a lot
I'm going to take the first week of the Fringe off. I've lived there for 15 years, work at the place that built half the software, and I've never really been to anything before :)
Oh ho! I thought your name looked familiar!
I built a Fringe website that uses the API I believe your company provides.
It's possible... I'm not sure we do the API though, I think we just do the sites.
I used to live on the Royal Mile for three years, Fringe time was always mental! But super fun. Never took the week/month off but always caught a lot of shows.
I'd love to go to the Fringe! I really need to try and do it sometime.
I'm planning to take a week off before I take my JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) to get in some last minute study.
I'll probably use the rest of my leave on some time off over the Christmas and New Year's break.
First I read "any time off in your furniture?"
I definitely need vacation.
I wood have said the same thing. 😁
Currently on my 4th week on the yearly holiday, returning to the office next Monday. I try to keep 4 weeks of holiday during summer and 1 during winter and then I'm lucky enough to work for a company that is flexible enough that I can take unpaid holidays to have longer weekends or recover every now and then with extra days off.
Those 4 weeks in summer... is this some Scandinavian thing? I heard, that in Sweden, usually in july everything stops, because who ever can, takes the whole month off.
Yeah, I live in Finland where you get 2.5 days of paid mandatory vacation per month worked which totals to 30 days. For each 5 days of holiday spent, you also lose one extra day (some old rule from the days when people worked 6d/wk).
So that makes it basically 5 weeks of holiday and people usually spend 4 of those during the summer and 1 during the winter.
Going to Florida at some point in the coming few months. Will be the first time our whole family has been back to the States together since we moved abroad a year ago! (Yes, a trip to Disney World is definitely happening.)
I’m planning my next 3 vacations at the moment. I spent the last year of my life in overdrive with no break in sight. I hurt people close to me because I got so high strung. I’m not making that mistake again.
I wish, this summer I sacrificed beach time in order to do my internship alongside taking a summer class so I can graduate in the fall. Next summer I be able to plan more trips since I'll hopefully have a full-time job, with little to no debt
I am actually on holidays from my grade, and it means a lot of free time to... Hard study JavaScript. Hahaha
Me and my partner will go away some days out to Málaga, Spain to visit some friends and spend 5 entire days playing modern boardgames.
I just got back from a 2 week trip to Iceland. Long story short. You should go to Iceland.
Going to Mexico for a wedding in August and to Japan in the fall 😌
Nice!
I'm going to Disney World in February with my sister, her friend, and the friend's boyfriend, but other than race registrations, nothing is planned for that trip. I do have tentative dates in my head ... does that count?
Leaving for Athens to see my family in a month, and then off to Vancouver and the surroundings in September ! Can't wait to disconnect for a short while 😄
I think I made a little too much vacation plan. :)
I’ll take two weeks off on August/Sept.
One to spend with my father (haven’t seen him in over a year!) and the other one I’ll be visiting southern Chile with my girlfriend :)
So right now we’re checking out hostal pricing, plane tickets, alllll that jazz. Woohoo!
Next one isn't planned yet, but I went on a week-long family camping trip 3 weeks ago. Other than for maps/GPS while driving, my phone was off. Been a while since I had been (mostly) off grid, and it was beautiful.
Had been planning to do our third EDC in May 2020 (even started on the installment ticket-plan). Unfortunately, last week, a very bad veterinary diagnosis pretty much derailed that. Even if though I'll likely continue to have the PTO to burn, all my previously spare money is now spoken for.
What's a "vacation"? Is that where you don't work for days at a time? I think I remember a time when I didn't work for a while and it was really stressful. I don't think I want to do that again anytime soon... 🤣🤣😜😜
I have an annual trip to Iceland planned every year. Helps me get out of the Arizona heat for a couple of weeks and get in touch with nature for once. I usually end up doing some remote work but it's definitely a good break!
Absolutely! I leave Monday night for Illinois where I'll spend just over a week hanging out with my best friend. I'm borrowing a computer while I'm there to remote in to present at a conference (on the topic of burnout) otherwise my iPad is the only device I'm bringing aside from my phone and only to draw with.
In October myself and a good friend are travelling to Austin for Artifact Conf and we're going to spend an extra few days after the conference hunting for good eats!
In November I'll likely visit my parents on the coast and see if I can't drag an aunty or two with me.
I used to not take vacations but after hitting burnout I have learned just how important they are.
The beauty of contracting is being able to allocate blocks of time for vacation and travel!
I'm planning 2-3 months later this year, during which I'll be traveling within North America and Oceana, researching potential employers and brushing up on my React and .NET skills.
It's not a vacation per se but I'm taking one month of paid parental leave in August as soon as Player 2 is there (the second son). I guess I'll spread my remaining vacation-days over the fourth quarter of the year, or just take the entire december off.
I'm going to London for a week around the 21st of July.
I've never been to London before, but my girlfriend really wanted to go.
I'm not very good at taking vacations, but I hope that I might get better at it 😃
I have a week off later this month, but need to set up something to do. I live within a reasonably short train journey of Cambridge so am considering going to the Raspberry Pi store there.
I'm notoriously bad for taking time off, to the point I pretty much have to be made to.
Ooh, that's a good book! My Japanese reading goals are Harry Potter and Silence by Shusaku Endo.
N2! But I'll be very underprepared so I'm not sure I'll pass. But I think N3 will be a bit too easy for me so I wanted to aim higher :)
Going on a week long Alaskan cruise next week :)
Gonna start a new habit of booking the next holiday when I return from the last one. 😎
I'm off on two weeks holiday in a few weeks. I'm going home to Ireland to see family and myself and my partner are also going to drive around as much of the island as we can because she's only seen a couple of places in Ireland when I've taken her home a few times before. I'm really looking forward to it because I haven't been home in ages but also because I've been feeling a bit burnt out lately.
Going to Barcelona this Thursday! Have booked my first surf lessons as well. :) Can't wait.
Yup! I'm travelling to Canada on next September to try to get a dev job there!
-Edit- now thinking about it, a vacation to look for a job is not exactly a vacation 👨💻
I'm visiting my sister in Whistler, Canada, early September :) I live in Sweden so its quite the journey.
We're mostly gonna go hiking and sailing!
i think I went on vacation in 1997-ish.
What is this thing you say 'vacation'?
Yes! After the Perl Conference in Riga in August, I'll spend a week with my family and friends in Zermatt, and then a week at the Lake Como.
I haven't been on a vacation in my life. Unless you consider my senior class trip in 2003 where my school took us to Disney/Orlando Studios/Daytona Florida for 9 days.
I have Monday off, but it's to sort my house out as I've just had flooring put in. So it's not really a holiday.
Other than that no I don't.
What's a vacation?
Thanks for the suggestions!
Yes.
Some friends and I are riding motorcycles to Indianapolis for GenCon the first weekend of August.
1 more day and a 5 week vacation begins! 🎉
On Wednesday, it is my birthday. And I always take the day off.
But the next big vacation is in February, where I go to the Maldives with my wife.
Just forgot:
First Weekend in August My wife and I are going to Venice for our Wedding Anniversary. And at the end of August we join her parents in Denmark for a week.
jokes
I am planing for Croatia.
Maybe i'll go to Uruguai pass one week me and my girlfriend!
Planning a trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands this October/November. Before that, I'll spend two weeks in California next month for a work/fun combination trip. Can't wait for both!
I'm just happy to finally get into a working rhythm. I'd love to go on a citytrip next year!
I visit Ireland once a year (I live in Australia) so I'll be back in August/September.
I want to do a big ass walking holiday somewhere mountainous next year.
I normally take vacations in December, so probably around that Christmas time 😅
Unfortunately, I have a hard time planning my vacation. As I do a lot of different jobs, it's hard to convince myself that it's okay to take a longer break.
Honeymoon in San Francisco at the end of the month 😀
Headed to the beach with friends in September!
Nope, I don't event know where would I go. Living with myself all the time, I don't feel like traveling the world, perhaps I'm going to get a vacation to play a video game or something ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'm on my vacations now. So I will try to work on my personal projects.
Just went down to Tennessee, in the middle of nowhere to meet the grandparent inlaws. Next trip... Maybe Hawaii (that's home for me, not some paradise trip)
My vacation is coming really soon! It's on the July 31st and we're heading to Hong Kong!
15 days in Indonesia next week!
Yes! Going to Prague, Vienna, and Munich in August. Should be great fun! If anyone from around there has recommendations on things to see/do/eat, let me know!
A quick trip to Australia later in the year, then 🤷 just came off of a big holiday, yearning for another :)
Next week we are leaving for Florida for a short vacation. Then a month after that moving there permanently. Can't wait!
I've had two week-long vacations in the past two months so I'm on a break from vacations for a bit.
Visiting NYC in December! Can't wait for it! I already took 6 weeks this year, so nothing planned for summer :P
24 days in Argentina and Peru in October - maybe pop over to Uruguay too :)
no, not even in nearby future