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All blog posts are now tagged in an attempt to make the blog more browsable.

Use creation methods when a constructor fails to fully capture the programmer’s intent.

I imported old posts from another blog of mine, surprised that they are still pretty good!

A deep dive into unit testing looking to answer why, how much, and what.

Testability and reusability goes hand in hand. When you test a function, you run the code in another context than it was built for.

How to avoid “temporal dependencies” where things must be done in a certain order.

Generative AI is bad at coming up with novel ideas, but really good remixing existing.

How come people never worry about whether technology scales down to a low number?

An example of how just a little typing can help avoid several real-world problems.

A selection of functional programming concepts that I feel are helpful to all developers.