Obvious programming
A technique to know how much refactoring you need
Mar 22, 20224 min read180
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Refactoring step by step: extract validation logic from a method
Context Testy is one of my open-source projects: it is a minimal Javascript testing framework. Testy, like many other testing tools, has a way to execute some code before each test. It is called before() and it receives a function as a block of code....
Jan 20, 20225 min read470
Leaving a codebase
Photo by Lina Trochez on Unsplash Leaving a codebase, especially if you worked on it for a long time, requires some work to properly hand it off to your colleagues that will continue with the project. I'm leaving a codebase where I contributed for 6 ...
Oct 11, 20214 min read387
Dealing with upgrades
Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash Intro A very important part of software maintenance is to keep languages, libraries, and framework versions up to date. I've experienced this many times while working on Ruby projects, and I've collected some tips or p...
Apr 16, 20214 min read101
3 Things Error Messages Should Have
(picture by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash) Intro One of the things that we as developers tend to underestimate, or not paying much attention to is writing good error messages. I will use an example throughout the post, which I recently had to implement ...
Jan 1, 20214 min read88