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4d ago
inMy boss made us switch from writing tests after code to writing them first, and the difference at our 12 person shop was night and day
Wait, three weeks straight with zero hotfixes? That seems almost too good to be true in my experience. I've seen teams get a small bump from flipping the order but nothing that dramatic, so I'm a little stunned by that number. What kind of tests are we talking about here, just unit tests or full integration stuff? Either way that's a wild turnaround for a shop your size.
5d ago
inChanged my mind about GeoCities after poking around a saved copy at the Detroit library
Whoa, a handwritten HTML guide for his grandkids? Did he actually save that guide to the drive too, or is it just the pages themselves?
11d ago
inThought those $8 clip-on fisheye lenses for phones were a total scam until my nephew proved me wrong
Thought the same thing about those cheap lenses but your story changed my mind.
15d ago
inSwore by my $15 Walmart earbuds until I tried a $45 pair from a pawn shop in Reno
The pattern here is that new stuff is built to die. Anything you get at full price now, earbuds, toasters, lawn mowers, lasts maybe a couple years tops before something dumb breaks. But the used stuff that already survived years of use tends to keep going, because whatever was cheap or weak about it got weeded out long ago. My brother's still rocking a 90s rice cooker from Goodwill for $8. Same idea, it outlived three of mine. New doesn't mean better, it just means nobody's tested it yet.