Tag Archives: software development

Large PRs are Bad

Posted on July 28, 2023 by way0utwest

I heard a joke years ago that went something like this. When a developer gets a pull request for code review that’s 100 lines long, they will open the file(s), look at the code, and ensure standards are being followed. … Continue reading →

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Creative Development

Posted on July 21, 2023 by way0utwest

I was working with a customer recently that has a development process that both made me cringe and struck me as very creative. In this case, the customer has software they have written when spawning a few databases for each … Continue reading →

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A Paste Policy

Posted on July 19, 2023 by way0utwest

Most of the code I’ve written for various employers was something that lived inside the organization. This was for internal use and no one outside of the organization ever used it. It was almost always code I’d written, so I … Continue reading →

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Database APIs

Posted on May 22, 2023 by way0utwest

Creating an API and using an API server of some sort has become a very common way of working with modern software, especially distributed systems. Whether developers move to microservices or something else, they often make more use of APIs … Continue reading →

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