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Test-Driven Development (TDD) turns the painful and exhausting hours of debugging into pleasant and joyful minutes of writing tests.

Software is about people, by people. Customers don't choose an application because it's developed in JavaScript, C# or Rust. They choose it because it makes their life easier. So instead of getting lost in the tech, focus on making your customers happy!

I never heard a developer saying "I wish I would have not tested my code".

Never forgetting how to quit vim ever again

Many software engineering teams don't have time to do it right. But surprisingly, they have time to do it twice.

Front end is harder than back end

Linux command every dev should learn 1. find - bit.ly/3C33Py0 2. grep - bit.ly/3zWDxL5 3. curl - bit.ly/3wzSFgM 4. lsof - bit.ly/3Q2h5Xi 5. chmod - bit.ly/3bOP0oj 6. tar - bit.ly/3vXKSc7 9. netstat - bit.ly/3JQuEY6

Unpopular dev opinion: Mountain Dew tastes terrible

I just came across somebody whose last name is Null. I cannot imagine the grief the poor guy is going through on a daily basis 😄

"First make the change easy (warning: this might be hard), then make the easy change." - @KentBeck

@KevinNaughtonJr Lol

why write tests when you can just write the code correctly the first time?

If you follow TDD you debug rarely. You debug with a debugger much more rarely. You debug deeply extremely rarely.

My first debugging option is code inspection. Next comes a strategic print statement. It has been many moons since I have had to resort to a debugger.

“It’s the circle, the circle of life” 🎶

@jangiacomelli Firstly, the predicate is false. TDD is popular and growing. Secondly, programmers who hate dealing with implementation details are not programmers. Programmers implement.

Technical debt is related to features, not quality. Code with technical debt has missing or attenuated features; but is well written. Code with low quality is delinquent. The lower the quality the more delinquent and the lower the credit rating.

Don’t fall for the meme that says that OO and Functional are mutually exclusive. They are not. It is entirely possible, and highly beneficial, to create nicely partitioned immutable classes driven by a functional style.

Never blame your employer for things that are your responsibility. If the code is a mess, it’s not the employer’s fault, it’s the programmers’ fault. Learn to negotiate features. Never negotiate workmanship. The only way to go fast is to go well.

@TheBrousse 😱

youtu.be/q1vlIYOtlFQ Wait, what !!! #goldorak

TDD does not take extra time. Writing tests _first_ is not overhead because they force you to think through the problem and partition it properly. You’d have to do that thinking anyway. Testing after the fact IS overhead because you did all that thinking already.