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import { utility} from StackOverflow

December 19, 2022December 19, 2022

When you want a simple utility function that isn’t part of the standard library, what do you do? A. Find a library and use itB. Write the function and add it to an internally shared collectionC. Cut and paste from StackOverflow I’ve done all three in my twenty years of development, and I’m here to …

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Tags clean code, dependency management, refactoring, typescript

Waste, fast and slow

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020

When you spot a distasteful waste, ask: does this waste speed me up, or does this waste slows me down forever?

Tags agile, clean code, waste

Other people’s messes

July 21, 2019

There’s a funny thing, that when I walk into the kitchen and there’s sunscreen on the counter that I left there before yesterday’s bike ride, there’s a plate that I put to soak on the counter and there’s a book about Klimt that I had hoped to read with my coffee, this is fine. It …

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Tags clean code, tistil, wip

For cleaner code, write ugly code

June 29, 2019

We want to write only clean code, right? Wrong. I want to write eventually-clean code. It starts exploring a space, and then I refine it to be cleaner and more suited to purpose. Usually, that purpose becomes clearer through writing, reading, and using the code. That process of refining or tidying up can feel tedious, …

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Tags clean code, functional

The next architecture book you must read

June 29, 2019

Today, another tweet about “how can I write the cleanest, best architected code?” gets piles of book references in response. Yes, we want to be good at writing code. We want to write the best code. The best code for what? “Writing code” is an abstraction, like a transitive verb without an object. I can’t …

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Tags clean code, context, Hermeneutics

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