The nerd in me has always been excited about tweaking my workspace, finding the perfect items, and building a cool aesthetic. Now that I've gone full-time remote again, I reinvested in my home workspace and I couldn't be happier with the results.
Static analysis assists in identifying objectively inconsistent and problematic areas within your codebase. I think whether you're building a small application or a large one, there's immense value in static analysis.
I've worked on a lot of applications and seen how complexity manifests itself in many different ways. There are a slew of solutions to combat complexity that people infinitely smarter than I have figured out, named, written and given conference talks about.
Some people ❤ to squash. I do not love to squash my commits. I like to be deliberate about what I’m committing and when I’m committing it. Because I am deliberate about this, I don’t like squashing. Squashing hides my history.
Great employers know this already but it’s worth reiterating: years spent writing in a language do not equate to quality as a programmer.
Letting a community solve a common problem like handling accounting affords you so much additional time to focus on your domain and providing value to your customers and that’s likely what you’re getting paid to do.
I recently had an injury resurface and I'm working from home for a prolonged period of time. Here's what I like about it.