Python Improve Code Quality in Python Flask with Pylint, djLint, and Black Writing clean code is something everyone can begin immediately simply by leveraging free tools like Pylint, djLint, and Black.
Development Onboarding as a New Dev: How to Wrap Your Head Around a Large Code Base Be patient when learning a large code base. It's a long process, but if you keep working at it, eventually everything will come into focus.
Exploratory Testing Set Team Standards for Unit Test Code Coverage in JetBrains Rider While code coverage is not a perfect indicator of a healthy test suite, JetBrains Rider can help identify areas of potential risk in your solution.
Development Practices New to a Codebase? Try Drilling! Drilling the codebase can help answer many questions without assistance and help you build confidence as an entry-level developer.
Extracurricular Activities Benefit of a Daily Dose of Wordle: Sharpen Your Problem-Solving Skills Simply solving a small problem like Wordle is enough to kick off my day and motivate me to solve more problems throughout it.
Development Practices A Case Study: Understanding Unfamiliar Code Without Aid I’d like to share how I dug into some unfamiliar code to find some direction so you can see how I approach this sort of problem.
Developer Tools For Code Consistency, Always Share Your Environment Settings IDEs offer plenty of options for sharing configuration settings in a team. Sharing configuration files enforces code consistency and reduces ramp-in.
Personal Optimization Writing Custom Software: In Defense of Inefficiency In creative work, it's vital to play and explore boundaries. Custom software doesn't get written efficiently because the programmer was a fast typist.
Development Practices A Code Smell Heuristic: Polluted by the Precipitant Over the last few years, I’ve found myself leaning on a useful new code smell I’ve stumbled across, one I call being "Polluted by the Precipitant."
Development Chesterton’s Fence and Writing Code Comments Old code often has a story to tell. Instead of tearing it down, follow the example in the story of Chesterton's fence and leave code comments as markers.
Growing as Makers Learn to Code: Make It Simple, Personal & Communal Learning to code is simple but not easy. Good learning makes it stupid simple. It also makes it personal, and it makes it communal.
