A Mindset for Better Code
The key for better code is making it easy to delete.
Recent Posts
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December 29, 2021 – quick-tip , refactoring -
November 25, 2021 – productivity , quick-tip How To Get Pull Requests Merged Faster
No one likes huge Pull Requests. Reviewers have a hard time reading them, bugs sneak in, they took ages to get merged, conflicts pop everywhere… It’s a nightmare. There’s a better way to handle this.
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October 28, 2021 – jekyll , quick-tip , ruby , ssg Easy View Components In Jekyll
Jekyll is a famous static site generator. It has over 43k stars on GitHub, but in our current JAMstack world, it’s not the shiniest star anymore.
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September 30, 2021 – linters , rails , rubocop , ruby Custom Linters For Custom Needs
Parsers, grepping, ASCII art, and how that helps you automating boring stuff.
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August 31, 2021 – quick-tip , refactoring How Spaces Can Improve Your Code
Writing code is similar to writing an essay: it consists of many small parts that interact. One big giant blob of words is hard — and tedious — to read. To address this, we use paragraphs. The same technique can benefit our code. Here’s how.
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July 22, 2021 – refactoring Kitchen Sink
Imagine you drink a glass of water and go to the kitchen sink to wash it. When you get there, there’s a HUGE pile of dirty dishes in the sink. To wash your glass, you would have to clean all the mess before. You look around… no one’s watching. You carefully put the glass in the sink’s corner and sneak out. You walk away thinking “How things got this way?”. The ironic answer comes to your mind: one glass a day.
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June 04, 2021 – learn-in-public , rust My First Month (or so) With Rust
I’m learning Rust and this is the first post about my experience with it. I’m a Ruby programmer, so you may wanna check out my post about the decision of learning Rust for more background.
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May 31, 2021 – beginner , oss Different Ways to Contribute to Open Source
OSS is a wonderful thing! I was so grateful for the OSS tools I used in my projects, that I started contributing to OSS as retribution! If you want to get started with OSS contributions, here are several ways to do it.
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April 22, 2021 – mocks , quick-tip , refactoring , testing Mocking Made Simple
TL;DR: Inject dependencies instead of mocking functions.
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March 27, 2021 – rust On learning Rust
As of March 26th of 2021, I decided to learn Rust. I’ve heard of it a couple of years ago but never had time (i.e. priority) to dig into it. Now it’s time to really understand what is it all about.
