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Here's an exercise to discover the quality of your design as revealed by tests:
1. Print a test
2. Explain the scenario being tested aloud
3. While you explain, highlight the part of the test you mention
4. Look at the density of highlights
Matt Smith retweeted
Add "blocks" to your calendar so you can actually do some software development, since you are a developer 🥇.
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oh wow is-website-vulnerable 1.14.0 🎉
🔥 You can now specify a GitHub Action lirantal/is-website-vulnerable@master in your CI to test for vulnerable JavaScript frontend libraries. Big thanks to @mattorb 👏
Pull Request for how to use it: github.com/lirantal/is-websi…
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In discussions in engineering teams, you quickly see who has ever worked in a company that ran out of money and who has not.
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How I used a Github action to regularly trigger the Go-based broken link checker 'Muffet', to hold the line against 404 broken links on my web site.
{ author: @mattorb } #DEVCommunity
dev.to/mattorb/goodbye-broke…
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The way you address the problem is by shipping changes not more slowly, but more QUICKLY. Fewer, smaller changesets turn into debuggable, understandable deploys.
The delta from "writes code" to "code in prod" is the primary metric of a team's maturity and efficiency.
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2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Report is here!!! 🎉 Performance, productivity, and how to scale DevOps in the enterprise. Check it out! cloud.google.com/devops/stat… #ASODR #DevOps
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Things not working occasionally is more annoying than things that don't work at all
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You become a senior engineer once you've accumulated a sufficient number of "looking back, what was I thinking?" experiences.
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“Why did we decide to do it this way?” — every developer 12 months after making a decision.
big big mood from @iamagiantnerd at #LeadDevNewYork
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People work in systems. To understand their work, motivation, decisions, etc. you must also understand their system.
(Apparently today is RT @jpaulreed day. He is on 🔥)
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DevOps is a philosophy that extends Agile thinking to operations (and incorporates operations into development). These are not, and never were, separate things.
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❌ vendor talking at high level about product/service/OSS they created and want to sell.
✅ vendor giving deep tech talk on underlying technology. Teach me something I can't learn on glossy website.
✅✅✅ end user talk. Tell me about real world problems and (vendor?) solutions.
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A lot of programmers make the mistake of thinking the way you make code flexible is by predicting as many future uses as possible, but this paradoxically leads to *less* flexible code.
The only way to achieve flexibility is to make things as simple and easy to change as you can.
