Posts tagged "programming":

From Agility to Stability

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

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.

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")