I hate complexity. A few years ago, I wanted to add some feature to some personal code of mine. But I just couldn't figure out how to do that without rewriting a significant portion of it to allow for that. There was another feature (let's call it feature 2) that just added so much complexity to the code that made things hard. I had an absolute stroke of genius: Just delete feature 2. This probably sounds stupid but I felt like a goddamn genius. Just deleting something solved all my problems.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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This is a good thing to share with new devs as well
I learned about this page from The primetime and I mostly agree with the Grog especially on software testing. It's funny that it came up when I was adding integration testing to our project that's relying only on unit test with 0 integration testing. So many mocks are required and changing any behavior, while wishing that you don't forget to update every mock is a wishful thinking.