YAGNI

Programming Books w/ Aaron Francis

Matt and Aaron talk about programming books and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io Aaron Francis on Twitter // PlanetScale Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to Aaron's shed Aaron reading printed docs on the...

Redis w/ Nate Berkopec

Matt and Nate talk about Redis and try to answer the question "do we need it?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io Nate Berkopec on Twitter // Speedshop Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to "Redis is not faster than your database" "Your data fits in RAM...

Service Objects w/ Jason Swett

Matt and Jason talk about Service Objects and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io Jason Swett on Twitter // Code with Jason Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to Jason's Snail Mail newsletter Brevity is the s...

Testing w/ Josh Pigford

Matt and Josh talk about automated testing and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io Josh Pigford on Twitter // Detangle Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to Wittgenstein's Ruler Why doesn't Stripe have a /mrr...

GraphQL w/ Trevor Turk (Bonus: VCR)

Matt and Trevor talk about GraphQL and try to answer the question "do we need it?" (Bonus hot takes on VCR snapshot testing) This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io Trevor Turk on Twitter // Hello Weather Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to GraphQL: The Do...

Friday Deploys w/ Charity Majors

Matt and Charity talk about Friday Deploys and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flippercloud.io Charity Majors on Twitter // honeycomb.io Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to Friday deploy freezes are exactly like murder...

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RSpec w/ Justin Searls

Justin Searls on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Test Double Justin's "What do you like about RSpec" thread (2016) Dan North BDD Nate Berkopec "Reading rspec documentation like..." tweet Corey Haines: Fast Rails Tests Kent Beck: "I get paid for code that works, not for tests..." Nick Quaranto's minitest CLI wrapper Mocktail gem test_data gem...

Small user stories w/ Dave Copeland

Dave Copeland on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Mood Health Taylorism / Scientific management Google DORA Report "Agile" on TikTok The Joel Test “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” George Carlin...

Staging servers w/ Justin Duke

Justin Duke on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Buttondown Accidental AirBnB "test" notification The Pragmatic Programmer "SICP" book "We dont use a staging server" HN thread Checklist Manifesto IQ Bell Curve / Midwit - Know Your Meme...

Detailed commit messages w/ Chris Toomey

Chris Toomey on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Sagewell Financial Write Good Commit Messages by Blaming Others The seven rules of a good git commit message David Hemphill - WIP Hot Ones Russian Roulette and expected value...

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