Developer-Experience

A developer experience and quality control measure I take on programs I’m building, even small ones, is always to write at least one test. ...

A developer experience practice I’ve recently picked up is routine Friday reboots of my workstation. I think this can make your workflow (and even perhaps your life as an engineer?) a little better. ...

Pastures which are subject to overflow should be avoided. All lambs born in April or May should be drenched about August or September following, to be certain of ridding them of worms that may later cause their death. This is output from a tool I built called Veterinary Ipsum. It’s something I’ve created a few times: a Lorem Ipsum generator specific to my company’s business domain. ...

Have you ever seen a pull request that seems to completely explain itself? It’s a real artifact. I don’t know the project, yet I understand it. How can we get results like this on every pull request, from every developer on the team, every time? ...

Absolute imports are an essential developer experience feature for me in any JavaScript application. In this post, I’ll explain what they are, how to use them, and why they matter. ...

Auto-formatting code is good, and you should be doing it all the time. Why? It helps you write better code in real-time, preempt trivial discussions, and maybe even democratize programming. ...