The Wrong Tool Costs You

I’ve been developing projects of my own. I hope to ship them, and in today’s tech world shipping usually means a web app. That usually means a chunk of ECMAScript (or Typescript if you like consistency or typing). If you value your time and want to ship (Note: sometimes you have different goals), then you’re probably going to be reaching for a set of tools.

Use Git Hooks

You probably suck at git. On top of that, you probably have a lot of other things you’re worrying about. It’s ok, we all have that problem.

But git is not just a tool to bonk new developers with weird corners. It’s not just a tool to make you interact with your coworkers during pull requests. It’s also a development tool.

You don’t know

You don’t know what you don’t know.

Web Developers will never take testing and correctness seriously. I can tell by the tools they focus on.

Unit tests fall into a trap: the people who write them don’t know the systems they’re testing.

How can you ever hope to combat things you don’t know? You have to discover them.

How do you find things you don’t know exist? Well the answer is fuzzy