I'm a bit of a perfectionist. When I create something, I want it to be not only good, but great. I can't accept substandard quality. I have standards after all and to accept mediocrity is to begin down a path which leads to enervation and death... or something like that. Having spent most of my … Continue reading Always Be Shipping

In my previous post about how to unit test, I decided to share some recent findings that made me rethink my approach to unit testing. Unfortunately, I didn't give myself the time to fully explore them and with about five minutes on Google, it became apparent that I had been caught up in an anti-pattern. … Continue reading My Last Post was Wrong – Rethinking Testing

For this post, I'd like to change things up a bit and talk specifics - in this case, unit testing. Many guides on unit testing tend to include code samples that I find overly simplistic, so I'd like to provide something that's a bit closer to what we might actually encounter in the wild. Let's … Continue reading How Do We Test This – Unit Testing

Over the last year, I've had the great fortune of working from home. While the situation has afforded me the ability to do many things I wouldn't otherwise have been able to do, it was also a major shakeup to my habits. Now, as restrictions have largely been lifted and life has returned to at … Continue reading Atomic Habits

My work with Sallie Mae required the company's 300+ developers to come together every quarter to a planning meeting for the next three months. It was a two-day-long event that involved a lot of time spent waiting around for other teams and often times the work planned on the first day would be completely changed … Continue reading The Meeting After the Meeting