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That's hard. My only advice when working in a stifling, corporate environment is to find out what your education budget is and then use it for the kind of learning I was referring …

Did you see this helpful link: https://littlegreenviper.com/testing-harness-vs-unit/ . According to that usage of "test harness", it's not the same as a unit test. It's a way of dr…

I try to think in terms of owing the dependency a contribution as a small payment for using it, and this bugs me until I do it. But, sure, better to contribute docs sooner rather t…

Fair point. I often copy stuff across from one project to the next. But this point is most relevant when I'm using another language etc. for the first time and I'm tempted to try t…

If there's a definite performance problem and a simple solution, then sure, go ahead. But applying every optimisation that comes to mind can produce a dog's breakfast of unmaintain…

Nice - thanks.

I take your point as I'm retired. But I had my previous working life squarely in mind when writing the post. "Sustainable pace" helps, which in my case came down to 37 hour working…

I like that. There are other ways of capturing work in progress adjacent to the code, instead of writing a journal. One of my favourites is to write a failing test - pretty much im…

Feel free to submit a PR. :-)

That was one of the points of the new repo. A plain text version of the file is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.tx... The other point was to make this com…

This project generates some tests of non-deterministic features of JSONPath using Haskell's list monad.

The underlying technology, https://gource.io/ , has probably been mentioned here before, but it's a superb tool which produces beautiful animations, so deserves another airing.