Upgrade Your Git: WIP

If you’ve been a developer for a decent amount of time, you’re probably familiar with

You should have your own .gitconfig, so you should be pretty familiar with git. You should also probably know that

The Current state of Web

I’m in the business of making web sites. I’ve made a lot of react websites a few Angular sites, I tried Vue, tried HTMX, Svelte kit the whole kit and kaboodle. I’ve seen things.

I started my life as a programmer doing web sites using

In those days was like the .NET framework like 3.5 or 4-something - it was always some combination of those words dot net framework web MVC or some other hodgepodge. I remember those days thinking that, it was very convenient, it was a very cool tool and it made a lot of sense to use it back then.

“Bad Game”

When I’m playing any game - cardboard, electronic, or even some sort of physical game - whenever I am moderately inconvenienced, I’ll say, “Bad Game.”

The Wrong Tool Costs You

I’ve been developing projects of my own. I hope to ship them, and in today’s tech world shipping usually means a web app. That usually means a chunk of ECMAScript (or Typescript if you like consistency or typing). If you value your time and want to ship (Note: sometimes you have different goals), then you’re probably going to be reaching for a set of tools.

Use Git Hooks

You probably suck at git. On top of that, you probably have a lot of other things you’re worrying about. It’s ok, we all have that problem.

But git is not just a tool to bonk new developers with weird corners. It’s not just a tool to make you interact with your coworkers during pull requests. It’s also a development tool.

You don’t know

You don’t know what you don’t know.

Web Developers will never take testing and correctness seriously. I can tell by the tools they focus on.

Unit tests fall into a trap: the people who write them don’t know the systems they’re testing.

How can you ever hope to combat things you don’t know? You have to discover them.

How do you find things you don’t know exist? Well the answer is fuzzy

Visual Basic Fans Suck

I have a habit of picking on Visual Basic: maybe because it’s so easy to generate content revolving around the dead language.

Welcome AI Overlords

It’s official (tm) AI will delete every job that you like, and also those that you don’t like. It’s totally not hype this time.

One Repository to Rule them all

The power of the One Ring in Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy was so potent that it’s assumed that most are vulnerable to it’s corrupting influence by simply touching or being in the presence of the item. That’s what it feels like with Monorepo technology.