This is my blog, where you'll find thoughts and discussions about the art of developing software.
In his recent post, Don’t be a Meat Proxy, Niklas Gruhn urges readers not to be a “Meat Proxy”—that is, someone who simply forwards or regurgitates AI output without providing any meaningful value. This framing has clearly resonated with folks. While I take Gruhn’s point, I think the framing -...
I recently bought my family our first 3D printer and I am blown away by the technology.
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute
I’ve long said that 100% test coverage should be table stakes for any production system. Yes, I know all the objections - “coverage for coverage’s sake,” “you get what you measure,” “it measures the wrong thing.” I agree with every single criticism. Yet I still insist on 100%.
There’s this metaphor that’s stuck with me for years: when you’re driving a car, you don’t just aim it in a direction and let it go. Instead, you’re constantly adjusting at the micro level—holding the wheel, turning it a micrometer to the left or to the right to make sure...
It’s been almost five and a half years since my last post on this site. I’ve aspired to write a lot more over the years, but of course every time I got the impulse to do so I was presented with the disgusting monstrosity that was the website I cobbled...
Managing dependency versions for your applications and modules can be a time consuming pain in the bum. Not only must you keep tabs on the release cycles of all of your dependencies, but you must then assess each release invidually, manually update the versions in all the consuming applications you...
Its an old meme from a TV commercial where a family is fighting about whether or not to eat hard shell or soft shell tacos; the young girl asks “why don’t we have both?” and is celebrated for being a productive mediator
With serverless architectures being all the rage these days, you’re probably wondering what options exist for your application in this brave new world.
When writing unit tests, a developer will often find themselves needing to override internal functionality that is consumed by the code under test. This is achieved by using stubs.