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I don't understand why people are against this so much. Black does a sanity check and compares the AST before and after to make sure there aren't any meaningful changes (unless you…

Hello! I have built a small Python package that allows you to call Testing Library DOM queries such as `getByRole` or `findAllByText` from Selenium code. My goal was to allow autom…

This looks really cool, awesome job! We desperately need something like this at my day job, but unfortunately we use MySQL and Django.

It might be just me, but I feel like remembering the foreign key name is more difficult than remembering the columns that you need in the ON clause. Especially since you can usuall…

I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but it made me chuckle: Your pain is our concern so here's some wisdom: undefined

I have worked on a Google project as a contractor and I can confirm that over-engineering was our biggest problem. I was also partially to blame, but at the time I did not know bet…

To fix this problem you can set up you CI server to merge into the base branch automatically before running the code (in fact you should probably do this by default for other reaso…

I've been using GitHub actions for my personal projects for the past few months. The documentation was not the best and the UX was not polished at all, so the experience was painfu…

The article makes some good points. Here are my thoughts: > 1. Preliminary Checks +1 for this, but I would also add that you need to add as much formatting/linting into this step a…

Actually, pair programming is a way of doing code reviews. Some teams consider pair programmed code as already reviewed. I don't have enough experience with pair programming to con…

I felt the same way as you do, I used the git CLI directly and could never use a git GUI. But then I figured out that Atom's git integration is actually quite neat and I started us…

Is there a torrent? The direct download seems to be slow.

We use IRC and a custom bot that logs chat history and does some other cool stuff. It works surprisingly well and it's really easy and fun to add new functionality to the bot.

It was inevitable!

I made this joke as soon as I saw the article: https://twitter.com/#!/Smotko/status/195057443674406912 :)