JavaScript: “What do we show when we don’t know the value in the URL?”
Designer: “That won’t happen.”
JavaScript: “K.”
Later a null pointer happens in an ‘impossible situation’. Gnashing of teeth & lol’ing at how this could happen.
(more…)Author: JesterXL
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Designing Impossible Situations
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Link: Test && Commit || Revert
Feeling masochistic? Want a tactical way to learn how to make frequent & smaller changes to your code base with confidence? Kent Beck of XP fame has a technique he’s tried called test && commit || revert. It’s nuts and horrible. I have to try it.
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Link: When To Refactor
Mark Seemann on “When To Refactor“
“… moving in small steps is a skill that must be explicitly learned. This may seem obvious once posited, but it may also be helpful to explicitly state it.”
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Jesse Warden Interview on Coder Conversations Podcast
Kevin, Raja, and Terrance invited me to the Coder Conversations podcast and ask me super hard questions about some of the basics of why I do what I do, what I’ve learned over the years in software, and my various challenges and fears.
