Elixir Releases: Moving Past Elixir 1.8 and Distillery 2.0
Elixir 1.9 has been released with built-in support for releases, a need that was previously served (and continues to be) by the Distillery package.
Continue Reading Discussion: Problem Solving and Learning on the Job as a Software Engineer
A while back several Revelers were chatting in Slack about learning and working as a software engineer. Some interesting ideas were being thrown around about programming problem solving and learning on the job, so we decided to record a discussion. What follows is a rough summary of some of the things we learned. How does […]
Continue ReadingMy Introduction to Property Testing
Lately I’ve been exploring various automated testing techniques, and it’s about time I got to property-based testing, also known simply as property testing. I think the easiest way to explain property-based testing is to contrast it with example-based testing, which is by far the most common type of automated testing. If we were building an […]
Continue ReadingHow Well-Tested Is Your Code? Try Mutation Testing to Really Understand
Mutation testing involves running your test suite many times, modifying the application code in different ways to see if the tests catch the change.
Continue ReadingDoing Algebra in Code: Looking Past the Details To Focus on the Math
The hard part of this was recognizing the algebra beneath layers of domain-specific business rules.
Continue ReadingOptimizing Feedback Loops for Iterative Agile Development
The team that seeks out feedback and views it as an asset rather than a slap in the face is the team that delivers real value to clients.
Continue ReadingTips and Advice for Dealing with Merge Conflicts
I was lying in bed this morning planning the best way to handle a merge conflict I know is coming with a colleague’s PR today, and I realized I’d like to know a couple of tricks for certain situations. Here they are:
Continue ReadingHow to Make Git History Useful to Humans
Make sure you’re doing this consistently, because down the line it makes a big difference to somebody digging through git history.
Continue ReadingLanguage Naming Conventions in Programming: It’s All in the Context
Jason had a theory: He dislikes abbreviations and acronyms, ambiguity and magic. And he likes explicitness and clarity. So he wondered why some code naming conventions seem to punish verbosity (when it’s required) and what this all has to do with language naming conventions.
Continue ReadingVim + VS Code = <3
Choosing a text editor is a personal thing, but here’s how using Vim with VS Code has made me a very happy software engineer.
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