Notes and links compiled while listening to talks.
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Keeping up with current research
Being employed as an application developer limits my ability to get better at writing software. The job is a box that constrains my perspective to one codebase and the knowledge contained in one team…
It’s a well-established practice to supply credentials and environment-specific configuration to a web app via environment variables.
By “environment-specific”, I mean specific to a particular instance of the running web app. That could be the web app…
When developing a web app and testing features that require HTTPS, the most straightforward way is to generate a self-signed certificate for localhost.
localhost
The problem with this approach is I have to click through pesky security…
Through different mediums
When we interact with a codebase, by default, it’s through a text editor. We dig through directories to find the file containing the code we want to see. Then, we might dig through a different set of directories to find a different file…
I recently realized that I write code more often than I realize. Aside from writing JavaScript in my editor, I often:
My last few bits of code have all been CLI tools. CLI tools usually consist of imperative code that is hard to abstract and hard to test. Because they tend to perform many side-effects, test cases have to take extra steps to achieve good isolation.
