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I'm a bit of a programming language nerd, I'm willing to admit that. But I'm sat here on my couch fighting off two cats and a dog and casually going through the ziglings exercises just to see what the fuss is about, and I

I'm writing this blog post because I think a lot of us in the software development profession believe in too many of our own myths. The conception for many is that approaches to programming ought to be divided into various competing schools, of which one will eventually prove

There have been a lot of questions in the Discord about how Gleam error handling works, so I'd like to write a short post describing the current state of error handling in Gleam. We'll cover 1. Errors as Values / The Result Type 2. Taking responsibility for

There is a popular concept in my particular internet bubble known as "Locality of Behavior". It's a sort of backlash to "Separation of Concerns", "Single Responsibility Principle", and various other justifications for abstraction. The idea essentially is, when one reads a function,

This blog post is a direct ripoff of a wonderful talk by Hayleigh Thompson at FOSDEM, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lYHFctx2Ks She also wrote a fabulous blog post about phantom types as well, which you can read here: https://hayleigh-dot-dev.github.io/blog/

Recently, I've been skulking around the Gleam programming language's Discord channel. Before I continue, here's some links. GleamThe Gleam programming languageGleamDiscord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & CommunitiesDiscord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat, hang

A very quick rant to get catharsis after a frustrating morning. A "property observer" is a special method on a class that is called internally whenever a property is accessed. They're called property observers in the swift programming language, but they also exist in python (@property)

Six months ago, I built a DSL for doing E2E test automation called SchnauzerUI. Although I don't know if more than a handful of people will ever use it (it served a very specific purpose for me so I'm fine if they don't), I

I won't bury the lead here because I too am the kind of person who scrolls to the bold sections of the article. Using tickets to drive development discourages refactoring and the boy scout rule. The boy scout rule is the idea that you should leave the code

If you're getting this post for the second time, it's because the first version contained a bug (credit to Peyton for pointing out my example made no sense). In the words of Hannah Montana, everybody has those days. The goal of this post is to highlight

The ? character (Sometimes called the 'question mark' or 'interrogation point' among other names) is used many different ways in the context of computer programming. The purpose of this post is to look at four ways ? is used, and pontificate on what we like and what we

SchnauzerUI is a DSL and framework for automated web UI testing. I created it out of my frustration with the complexities using a Java/Cucumber/Selenium/Excel based testing setup. In this post I'll give some background on what those issues were, how SchnauzerUI attempts to solve them,

This post is part of a series where I review some food and then I review some aspect of software development. Food: Frothy Monkey, Chorizo Biscuits and Gravy with Over Medium Eggs Thoroughly disappointed in the biscuits and gravy. Lets start with the biscuit. It's thick, grainy, and