I’m ducking TIRED

HALL WEEN

I really prefer imperative styles of programming over declarative styles. It’s easier for me to trace through a set of discrete transformations and understand the state of the system when I need to debug it. It’s not perfect, and it’s not the right tool for every problem. But when a system is responsible for predictably managing data it’s so easy to test

The vast majority of the bugs I run into are because data I thought was immutable was actually mutable. Errors I thought were handled were not. Stack traces were lost to the sea of thenable chains

I’ve got a complicated relationship with typescript. It’s a powerful and capable language that’s got a fantastic community. I also find myself constantly being surprised by how often I’m put in a position where I have to reinvent wheels I expect would have already been invented

Software development is just dependency management, the rest is details

Eyes dilated. The world is so much brighter than I’m used to

Eyes dilated. The world is so much brighter than I’m used to

It is in fact possible to build a system which only has the U of CRUD verbs. It’s however not recommended