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How would I do it in Haskell?

Here’s a couple of examples where I contaminated Ruby with functional intuitions.

Nov 26, 2020

Nov 26, 2020

Make Your Tests Fail Randomly (and Profit)

Using random values in automated tests to improve readability and the likelihood of failures in the presence of bugs or wrong mental…

Nov 19, 2020

Nov 19, 2020

How to Terminate Legacy Code without Getting Stuck

Embracing the inversion principle with legacy code: don’t try to make it perfect; just make it less awful for the next round of changes.

Nov 11, 2020

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Nov 11, 2020

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Vanilla JavaScript vs. RxJs

Tackling problems from different angles: imperative against declarative, or “push” vs. “pull.”

Nov 5, 2020

Nov 5, 2020

The Simplest Most Powerful Trick–Verification Steps

Verification steps don’t come with a 100% save-ass guarantee, but the list of benefits is long, and it’s not limited to finding bugs.

Oct 29, 2020

Screenshot of verification steps out of a Trello ticket. Verification steps: 1. login on staging with riccardo.odone 2. open reporting 3. go to production checklist 4. notice it's fast enough 5. select dates to cover September (14th has 25 orders, 15th has 50 orders, etc.) 6. notice the pagination (50 per page) 7. wait a few seconds 8. notice the print button becomes active 9. notice that printing would print all pages not only the current one 10. notice, both in the page and in printing, items are ordered by fulfillment date first, order number second (Please check with other accounts too, Please do a light testing of manage orders and tax summary–just visualizing them not generating)

Oct 29, 2020

How to Deal with (Your) Unsatisfying Code

In the past, I committed the crime of adding a “Refactor Feature X” ticket to the cemetery (aka backlog). Luckily, there are better ways.

Oct 22, 2020

Oct 22, 2020

From Zero to RxJs via Knowledge Transfer

When I’m exposed to a new concept close to a dense area of my knowledge graph, I can approach it from multiple angles using different…

Oct 15, 2020

Oct 15, 2020

10 Knowledge Transfers that Make me Thrive with Legacy Code

I don’t have to relearn anything from scratch; I only transfer knowledge over from past experiences and fill the blanks.

Oct 9, 2020

Oct 9, 2020

From Temporary Knowledge to Permanent Knowledge

By disregarding practices and principles, we are condemned to start from scratch and re-learn at every context switch.

Oct 1, 2020

Oct 1, 2020

Making an Endpoint 13 Times Faster

Down to 900 milliseconds. In other words, more than 13 times faster in the worst case (before it took 12 seconds) and infinitely faster in…

Sep 23, 2020

Sep 23, 2020

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