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Most discussions on code style are a waste of time. There's rarely a compelling reason behind style suggestions other than personal preference. Tabs or spaces? 2 spaces or 4? Semicolons anyone? In most cases, worrying about code style isn't valuable....
In this post, we’re going to talk about how testing can make your development experience faster. Sometimes a feature you’re developing is time-bound. It's built around a slow external process. Every time you want to test a change, you have to make an...
The job of a developer isn’t to write code. It’s to write code that works. That might sound silly, but the implications are big. It's important to put processes in place to ensure the correctness of the code we write. For example, we use tests to ver...
Unit test everything. I hear this advice a lot. Most people think you should focus most of your time on unit tests. There's nothing wrong with unit testing, but it can slow you down in the long run. Unit testing is popular because it's fast and you c...
Did you google it? Did you check Stack Overflow? I've heard this advice parroted since I started my journey as a developer. To be fair it's not bad advice. You can solve a lot of problems this way. Honestly, I still use this method today. But is this...
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