Thomas Smith

Expectations in Go Unit Tests

Or: how to make table tests clearer and more developer-friendly.

“Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.”

Chesterton’s Fence is not an admonishment of anyone who tries to make improvements; it is a call to be aware of second-order thinking before intervening. It reminds us that we don’t always know better than those who made decisions before us, and we can’t see all the

go

Go Should Allow Implicit Typing on Funcs

I’d love to see Go implement implicit typing for function arguments.

typescript

Template Literals in TypeScript

A new feature in TypeScript 4.1 is the ability to create Template Literal Types. This feature allows you to use string interpolation to create types: type World = "world"; type HelloWorld = `Hello ${World}`; // type HelloWorld = "Hello world" Looks interesting, right? This feature gets even more powerful when you combine it

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Pipelines in TypeScript with Generics

I first encountered a "Pipeline" in code when working with Laravel a few jobs ago. Not long afterwards, I started learning Elixir in my spare time, which had a similar concept with its Pipe Operator. And of course, if you're familiar with Bash you'll know about piping output into other