I am a (sometimes grumpy) developer. I will share thoughts related to software development on this blog. And maybe things not directly related but that I want to write about. I am by no means an expert. Do not consider what I write to be the truth. Please feel free to leave a comment if you disagree, want to react or want to share something on the topic. I would really like to hear from you. This blog is free of content generated by AI(/LLM).
We can often hear people suggest that making high test coverage mandatory will make a better product. From what I've seen and heard, I don't agree with that idea. Here is why. The myth of high test coverage making the product better The idea of high test coverage making the product better is quite straightforward to get to: We test the product to ensure that the product works as expected. If we…
Recently I saw some people complaining about seeing more and more articles that are of poor quality. Those "10 things you must know about x" or other empty content that are created for the sake of getting views. Sometimes, they are even written using AI and without much thought. I felt tired of these articles some time ago too. And this is why I stopped going to popular websites to search for…
It's not that infrequent that I hear people talking about someone's flaws and what this person can do better. And, when I ask, nobody seems to have told anything to this person. In this post, I will share my view about giving feedback. Giving feedback is hard I can't write about giving feedback without recognizing that it's hard. Especially for negative feedback. It's uncomfortable to walk to…
I quite often see people faking to know something they obviously don't. To be honest, I am sometimes tempted to fake it too. When looking back, I think that being honest about what I don't know is one of the things that helped me the most in my learning journey. So, in this post, we will explore the importance of recognizing things that we don't know to be able to learn and improve ourselves. The…