jon skulskiI confused choosing the wrong implementation and having no feedbackI was writing software the other day. And I had a choice between two implementations: PATH A and PATH B. Seemingly the same. No clear…Jun 15, 20162Jun 15, 20162
jon skulskiDuplication isn’t evil, it’s a balance.Exasperated Business Person: “Shouldn’t that be easy? I’m asking for a single change.”Oct 9, 2015Oct 9, 2015
jon skulskiPyRoom Is Over, If I Want ItI finished pulling most GUI concerns out of the ‘Editor’ object. Unit tests now run without having to launch 35+ GUIs that it wasn’t…Jun 21, 2015Jun 21, 2015
jon skulskiSpies in PythonI’m doing testing (sensing) on my editor and GUI in Pyroom. The GUI is very coupled and used everywhere. Creating a full mock GUI was…Jun 12, 2015Jun 12, 2015
jon skulskiBig FontsI work at 22px, sometimes more. I like it. I get asked if my eyes are good. They are, adequate at least. I choose big fonts because of an…Jun 10, 2015Jun 10, 2015
jon skulskiRefactoring is the Most Important Skill for a Software Engineer Today.That’s my dumb opinion.Jun 4, 2015Jun 4, 2015
jon skulskiSmalltalk and Development EnvironmentsI stumbled across Pharo the other day. It is a dialect of Smalltalk and this wonderful environment to create your app.Jun 4, 2015Jun 4, 2015
jon skulskiFocus.Through a masterful level of justification, I’ve decided that it wasn’t worth doing.Jun 3, 2015Jun 3, 2015
