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Bug squash: An underrated interview question
I love bug squash interviews.
Jake Zimmerman
A collection of blog posts about programming, software, types, programming languages, Sorbet, Vim, Markdown, and more.
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Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX
Writing should be a pleasant experience. With the right tools, it can be. LaTeX is powerful but cumbersome to use. With Markdown, we can focus on our writing, and worry about the presentation later. Pandoc can take care of the presentation for us, so the only thing left to do is start.
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Code Review from the Command Line
I do the bulk of my code reviews from the command line, especially when reviewing larger changes. I've built up a number of tools and config settings that help me dig into the nuances of the code I'm reviewing, so that I can understand it better than if I were just browsing online.
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Past, present, and future of Sorbet type syntax
A discussion of how Sorbet's type syntax came to be, the problems it solves, and how it could improve.
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Union Types in Flow and Reason
Union types are powerful yet often overlooked. At work, I've been using Flow which thankfully supports union types. But as I've refactored more of our code to use union types, I've noticed that our bundle size has been steadily increasing!
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Ruby's private keyword is weird
Ruby's `private` keyword means something different compared to basically all other object-oriented languages. Most other languages don't even have a feature matching what Ruby calls `private`, but incredibly, Scala does, which it calls `protected[this]` (meaning