Please Stop Updating Yourself
Self-updating software is sometimes viewed as a feature, but to me, it’s just annoying. A rant about this practice and a plea to stop this trend.
Read more... 2024-03-31 965 words 5 min technologyParallel Integration Tests With Ktor
Backend unit tests tend to be tedious to write, difficult to maintain, and costly to execute, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s how I leverage the power of Kotlin to make writing integration tests for Ktor backends a breeze, while also keeping them 🔥 blazingly fast 🚀.
Read more... 2024-03-24 3490 words 17 min programmingBe Cool About Type Safety
I very often praise Kotlin for its powerful and flexible type system, and bash on JavaScript for its lack thereof. But I want to show that, while it is personal preference (even if a popular opinion), there are actual merits to having a good type system. While Kotlin and JS are used as examples here, these points can be extrapolated to most languages.
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