Some context on my 1st week of the new job, dealing GraphQL null-able types, describing some of the challenges of being a front-end dev when you are not full stack, and the harder than immediately apparent choice of choosing an Elm GraphQL library.
A lot of discussions this week on X and on LinkedIn about mocks, e2e, Go vs C#, and good vs badly written code. Watched the threads from afar, and if you squint, most in the thread have different definitions for those words.
I find it difficult to participate because 2 people talking about 2 completely different things, and debating some point of view doesn’t make any sense when the point of view isn’t viewed correctly or the same by people in the thread.
I can help with the Mock and Stub. I can help a little with the e2e. I can’t help much with “good code”. I can’t help you at all comparing language ecosystems. So I’ll just cover the first 3.
Watching a Kent Beck talk, and because of recent events, I really liked his definition of the 2 types of developer preferences: “Lumpers” and “Splitters” (at 41:30 mark)