Software Engineering

Stop SHOUTING = 'shouting'

A hill I will die on 👉 global CONSTANT = 'constant' are bad

How to rewrite your app while growing to a $100,000,000 series B

When you're in a company desperately trying to meet demand, *ship*. You'll have money, time, and professionals to fix code later. Even if you start with jQuery.

Complex vs. complicated

Would you rather work with a complex system or a complicated system? 🤔

What I learned from Software Engineering at Google

When I first picked up Software Engineering at Google I thought it was another one of those FAANG books full of lessons that make no sense at human scale. I was surprised, lessons apply to teams as small as 5.

Software Engineering is the 2nd best job

Ok so I've been doing lots of research into the Software Engineer job market – Some highlights 👇

The Magic Function principle

Write functions, mostly magic.

WTF is X-Frame-Options?

You don't need tests

Are You an Engineer or a Developer?

How to run JavaScript tests in Chrome on Travis

Dear tech companies, this is not how you hire engineers

My old code is atrocious

Bring Ruby VCR to Javascript testing with Capybara and puffing-billy

Simple trick that lets you code twice as fast

Blackbox testing node.js apps

What Refactoring is, and what it isn't

I wish this existed

How to make your django app slow

Unit testing is for lazy people

Simple trick for testing forms full of checkboxes with django

Why don't computers understand timezones?

Software dev isn't just a logical process

The ten pros and cons of unit testing

Unit testing is anti-productive