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Mar 25, 2024 · I’d like to share a few little points to help you or someone you care about through their day. You can write good code without TDD. Even the act of trying to write one test is already enough to clarify your thinking about what the system (or some part of it) ought to do.

Jan 8, 2024 · I’ve been reading Kent Beck’s writing on Substack and on the occasion of the death of Niklaus Wirth, he shared part of a conversation he’d had with the professor when Kent had arranged to sit next to him on the flight home from a conference they’d both spoken at.. Extreme Programming was just starting to crackle & pop, so I’m sure I was a bit over-enthusiastic.

Dec 19, 2024 · Before You Begin What is the Saff Squeeze? Read this tutorial.. The Example I use jq to turn JSON into Plain Text Accounting journal entries. In particular, I administer a bowling league and use hledger to track the league finances. Each week, we collect cash from bowlers, pay some of that money to bowling center, and use the rest to fund prizes.

Jul 29, 2022 · What is refactoring? You’d think that, in 2022, we’d have long settled this question already. Yes and no. A Problem I routinely encounter programmers who struggle with refactoring because they become stuck on this central question:

Jul 21, 2018 · The UX specialists at Microsoft decided that Run would confuse programmers, so instead they chose to name the menu item Start Without Debugging and put it under the menu item Debug.. This tells me a lot about what the average .NET programmer expects. Not debugging becomes the exception, rather than the rule.. This also reminds me of sudo add-apt …

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Sep 5, 2023 · By now you’ve probably heard of Four Elements of Simple Design, among which you’ll find this suggestion: reveal intent.You’ve probably also read articles about how to do this, many of which feel entirely subjective and seem to beg their own question: if it’s enough to improve names, then I need good judgment to improve names; how do I develop that judgment?

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Jul 14, 2018 · I made a silly mistake installing rvm on my new Linux laptop. I should mention that I don’t really know Linux yet, so that makes me susceptible to making this kind of silly mistake.