Developer Blogs

New York Times

https://developers.nytimes.com/

No Code? No Problem - Writing Tests in Plain English - https://open.nytimes.com/no-code-no-problem-writing-tests-in-plain-english-537827eaaa6e

Discusses the benefits of BDD:

• easier reporting
• makes code easier more accessible to non-developers

Compose from first principals

http://intelligiblebabble.com/compose-from-first-principles/

A look at how to build an compose-like API from the ground up. It has a look at how to flatten a tree into an array-like data structure and how positional memoization works.

Youtube Videos

• Paving your Path to becoming a better Android Developer - Rebecca Franks
• The Fake Problem with Junior Developers - Berta Devant
• Preventing the Collapse of Civilization - Jonathan Blow

Helpful Stackoverflow answers

Making pull requests easier to review while practicing XP and refactoring https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/380925/making-pull-requests-easier-to-review-while-practicing-xp-and-refactoring

Key take aways:

• Create sensible commits that can be used to view changes
• Stick on topic, don't delve too deep and refactor legacy code

Links

• https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/effective-pull-requests-a-guide/
• https://blog.hdias.dev/perfect-pull-request
• https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/code-review-and-test-driven-development-4c19b69b5761

Podcasts

• https://corecursive.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-software-contrarian-transcript/

Lamenting the state of development

• Sotware Disenchantment
• Why are we so bad at software engineering
• The Android build system is broken (7 years old)
• Stop writing code comments
• Why inline comments are genrerally a bad idea

Joining a Company

• https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/k7627h/do_you_have_a_list_of_standard_things_you_do_when/