What I read this we—errr, MONTH
7 links to help you grow, take inspiration for your own journey
“Roughly speaking, given a fixed budget, the number of tests you can afford in the long run is inversely proportional to the maintenance cost of each test.“
―Quentin Spencer-Harper
You’ll become successful through overcoming challenges and facing your obstacles.
… but that doesn’t mean it has to lack inspiration or fun.
Here’s a few links that you can skim in under 60 seconds.
I hope it will inspire you, and on occasion help you get unstuck.
The Power of Function Composition — Conor Hoekstra. HOLY smokes this talk is good!
Fun for NOW. Kevlin highlights the importance of sleep and boredom to allow for a state of high productivity. He argues that it has a more reliable and measurable positive impact on engineering teams than more baseline considerations like tools, frameworks, languages.
How to fall in love with TDD - Gui Ferreira - NDC Oslo 2024. You may have seen Gui on Youtube talk about .NET and TDD. This talk covers testing the what not the how and a few culprits regarding mocks very well.
Testing Frontend — Lessons from over a million lines of TypeScript at Palantir. It keeps getting better. Not the AI per se. But the amount of research we have on what makes good tests. You see, the more we try to optimise and automate code generation the more we have to focus on becoming precise on what makes code good, valuable and maintainable.
33 Years of Business Experience in 4hrs FULL COURSE. It’s rare that a 4 hour video would captivate me. No sales pitch. No gate keeping. No “at the end of this video…” No upsell. Just pure advice, techniques and advice.
Cracking the Code Review by Paco van Beckhoven. Take social skills and rituals to the next level. Not everything has to be done through pair programming and trunk-based development, but the added politeness and candour can take you further!
How I use GIT. It’s fun a but also saddens me how often during coaching I get to teach people how to effectively use GIT in terminal or their IDE. It’s an under rated skill and this article by Thorsten repeats many of the lessons I teach.