The Holidays - Unleash Your Empathy and Spread Good Cheer

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[00:38] Julie and Andrew talk about exercising, home workouts, and video games

[06:15] The holidays are approaching and we are a little SAD. Can your GitHub commit graph be used to notice changes in mood?

[07:40] Andrew brings up the how the weather affects his mood.

[08:55] Julie finds it harder to focus when it's rainy and cold

[09:45] Find out what "Tech the Halls" is and why Andrew is really excited for December and what he will be doing at Podia this month

[11:15] Julie participated in a hackathon recently and really enjoyed it

[12:00] Do you control what you focus on at work? Andrew really likes companies that give their developers time to work on personal itches, open source, and increase their learning.

[13:30] Curious what Andrew is building for "Tech the Halls"? He describes the problem and solution to Julie.

[18:20] Julie asks about serverless functions and Andrew claims he doesn't want to talk about them before proceeding to try and explain what they are from a high level.

[20:50] We are back to talking about the holidays and how to make it more fun for your team. Small gestures can go a small way!

[23:45] It's a stressful time of year so empathy and grace are the messages that Andrew and Julie want you to spread.

[28:45] Julie asks one last question before they sign off about discussing allocating time for these types of projects with your manager

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Links

Heroku Docs: App Webhooks

AWS Lambda

Serverless Functions on Vercel

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