Nathan Jones @_ncjones

Technical Co-Founder @ Immersve Waikato, New Zealand Joined November 2015

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Nathan Jones @_ncjones

5 months ago

blog.ncjones.com/posts/covid-19…

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Nathan Jones @_ncjones

9 months ago

Make the change easy then make the easy change. And don't wait for permission to do so. Developers who are serious about code quality will tidy first. blog.ncjones.com/posts/tidying-…

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Attaching transaction context to every log message saves hours of debugging, and in Node.js, this is easy to achieve by using Async Local Storage. ``` server.ext('onRequest', (req, h) => { logger.addAttribute('requestId', req['id']); }); ``` blog.ncjones.com/posts/shared-l…

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Nathan Jones @_ncjones

a year ago

Assigning pet names to applications is easy and powerful. Your applications will be referenced in hundreds of places such as docs, logs, and client integrations. Pet names make those references concise and unambiguous. blog.ncjones.com/posts/give-you…

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Nathan Jones @_ncjones

2 years ago

TIL any nodejs object can implement `[util.inspect.custom]()` to make nicer debug output. Making use of this to improve logging of Algorand transactions. blog.ncjones.com/posts/nodejs-c…

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Nathan Jones @_ncjones

4 years ago

Didn't upgrade Git in a while. I feel so safe now that Git comes with a trigger warning when you inadvertently create an oppressive master branch. github.com/git/git/pull/9…

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Nathan Jones @_ncjones

6 years ago

While using Wiremock with Cucumber JS for the last few years I've had a few attempts at establishing patterns for separating dynamic stubs from step definitions. I've released my third iteration in a NPM package called Mock Commander. github.com/ncjones/mock-c…

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Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin

6 years ago

The true value of pair (or mob) programming is that it allows knowledge to spread quickly through the team. This shared knowledge is what makes the team a team. In a team, when a player goes down, the others cover the hole and keep moving towards the goal.

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Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin

6 years ago

What would you rather have: A. A big software system that works perfectly but is very difficult to change. B. A big software system with some missing features that is very easy to change.

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Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin

6 years ago

It is more important for code to be changeable than that it work. Code that does not work, but that is easy to change, can be made to work with minimum effort. Code that works but that is hard to change will soon not work and be hard to get working again.

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Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin

6 years ago

Quality is the key to speed. You go fastest when you go well. And never ask for permission to go well; that’s your responsibility and no one else’s.

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Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin

6 years ago

I am always surprised by the rather large number of programmers who believe that their employers do not care about the engineering quality of the code. They care a great deal of course, because it is the lack of that quality that causes estimates to rise without bound.

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Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin

6 years ago

If you value making it work over making it right then you will make it work by doing the wrong thing. As that continues, and the code degrades, it becomes harder and harder to either make it work or make it right.

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Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin

6 years ago

We write tests first so that we write tests period. We write tests first so that our code will be testable. We write tests first so that we know what code we should write. We write tests first because we always do the most important things first.

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Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin

6 years ago

I have been using Test Driven Development for twenty years now. I am a faster, better, more confident programmer because of it. The code I write is very well tested. The tests give me confidence to refactor. The refactoring improves everything.