Posts tagged "programming":

Bouncy Balls and Agile Orgs

Go and watch Steve Mould's video about bouncing balls and trampolines. I'll summarise the bits I care about here, but the video's really good. And I guess the rest of this post contains spoilers for it?

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Ok. Let's talk about it.

In the 90s, I was one of quite a few angry linux-evangelizing teenagers who hated Microsoft with the kind of all-consuming passion usually only available to the blissfully young and inexperienced.

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Care: The missing ingredient

I really want to write software that's actually good.

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Using Minimal Emacs with Nix

If you're both an Emacs user and a Nix user, then you should probably be using direnv with the use flake directive, and the emacs-direnv package¹ for the best possible experience.

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From Agility to Stability

I think we could plot basically all software projects¹ on this graph:

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Why don't we inline our tests with our code?

One of my favourite things about TDD is that our tests act as documentation for our code. If I'm reading an unfamiliar codebase, and I know that it was properly TDDed, the first place I look is the tests. Well written tests tell me what the intent of some code is. Then if I'm interested in getting into the weeds of how it works, I can always read the code itself later.

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Exploring Bash Process Substitution

Recently, while debugging some old bash scripts, my pair and I came across a command that looked like yq eval "$KEY = \"$VAL\"" -- <(echo "$CURRENT_NOTES")

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