Sam Jones
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The Problem with Paydown - and your team's happiness
Your credit card debt is out. of. control. What do you do? Budget paydown! In software development, we try to apply that same idea of budgeting paydown to technical debt in our applications. -
The Three-Things Theorem of Function Intention
Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, has gone through a modern mathematical renaissance. The folding process was originally passed down between generations orally. Recently, though, artists have developed a way to document the steps to fold a shape with a diagram called a crease pattern. -
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Questioning Responsibility
I can imagine paleontologists drooling over our applications’ changelogs. I’m sure they wish they had a record of the exact environment that caused a recently uncovered Protoceratops to grow that very interesting third eyeball. -
Culling Conditionals with Abstractions
Growing up near the Great Lakes, I’m well aware of the threat that Asian carp are posing on the polluted lakes we endearingly call the “North Coast”. It seems that these carp can’t be stopped. -
Shape Testing with JavaScript Streams and Lodash FP
Shape test changing data Have you ever written an end-to-end test against a live API? I have, and it’s hard. It’s tough to do because the data returned from that live API is always changing. -
Remote Pairing with Tmate and Tmux
Here’s the situation. You LOVE tmux, and you use it all the time to organize your terminal and create a workspace. You’ve created a new tmux session where you will do your work named funproject. -
Accessibility Techniques
Accessibility techniques are a way to create a more usable experience for all users. An accessible experience can be viewed as a continuum, and this post is an introduction to techniques that span that continuum. -
Accessibility Is Usability
Our goal when creating an accessible experience is to ensure that users with vision, auditory, motor, or cognitive disabilities are able to navigate all web content. Accessibility guidelines exist to eliminate barriers that would otherwise hinder equal access to a significant percentage of the population. -
Test Organization With Contexts
Many of my favorite languages have testing libraries that support specs. Two distinct standouts that do not support contexts are C# and Java; luckily, their language features still allow the same goals to be achieved.
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