Tagged with “misc”
Git Good - The magic of keeping a clean Git history
This post is designed to help you form a solid mental model while working with Git both professionally and in an open source project, and how to ensure you are following best practices to make the process easier for everyone.
Automated dependency updates for your internal GitLab server️
Are your dependencies hopelessly outdated? Would you need to hire another developer just to keep up with the maintenance work of keeping them up-to-date? If those questions match your project then this blog post is for you. Keep reading and we will show you how to solve a lot of these issues with some easy to use tools.
Open Source Maintenance
People often ask us how we can handle maintaining a large number of open-source projects. In this blog post we will introduce you to some of out internal best practices we have developed or discovered to simplify and speed up working on open-source and other projects.
Magic Data in Tests
Often when working on large codebases, my changes break some existing tests. While I would prefer my coding to be perfect, it's highly unlikely that I'll ever achieve the state of coding zen, so it's nice to know I have a test suite to catch me when I fall. Given that the codebase is large and in the majority not written by me, I tend to be introduced to code via the test files. One important principle I've started to follow when writing and refactoring tests is AAA.
The most important command when working with XCode 6
Switching off XCode's Crash Reporter saved my day.