It’s been 10 months since I went from Elm to TypeScript Angular, and I still struggle with the following:
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Finding Energy to Learn & Build When Burnt Out
Reminder to be nice to yourself right now if you’re trying and failing to learn new things after work or practice; things aren’t great right now and it’s not your fault. I’ve had multiple people reach out to me the past year and ask how do I find energy and time to learn new tech, or practice by building things.
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YAGNI For Types
Noticed a disturbing trend the past 3 years that I’ll often end up with too many/overly verbose types. TDD has helped remove them, but I wonder if there is a TDD you can apply to Type Driven Development?
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Python Has Types, They Help
Seeing these Python projects being worked on by junior devs with decent test coverage, but zero types amongst code that’s doing a lot of data transformation is… disappointing. I worry for those teams. If your tech lead has not told you, Python has optional, gradual types.
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