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Things related to software development that I find interesting. I hope you will too. 🙂
I try to write new stuff once a week. For particular topics, browse my blog posts by tag.
May 2024
There is no loop 🥄
Learn to move from imperative
while and for loops to declarative collection functions like map and filter.
April 2024
Constructors and creation methods 🏗️
Use creation methods when a constructor fails to fully capture the programmer’s intent.
Twelve-year-old blog posts 🕰️
I imported old posts from another blog of mine, surprised that they are still pretty good!
Why write unit tests? 🧪
·18 mins
A deep dive into unit testing looking to answer why, how much, and what.
Testable code is reusable code ♻️
Testability and reusability goes hand in hand. When you test a function, you run the code in another context than it was built for.
Remove temporal dependencies ⏰
How to avoid “temporal dependencies” where things must be done in a certain order.
AI is great for research 📖
Generative AI is bad at coming up with novel ideas, but really good remixing existing.
March 2024
Does this scale down? 📉
How come people never worry about whether technology scales down to a low number?