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Mental Reverb

mental-reverb.com

Hello. My name is Benjamin Richner and I'm a software engineer from Switzerland. I'm interested in video game design, music, philosophy, computer science and maths. This website serves as a blog, a contact platform and a little hub for my projects and things I care about.

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The day I started believing in unit tests

Right after getting my degree, I was lucky to be hired into a small but decent R&D department as an embedded software engineer. My first task was to create a Unit Test project and have it run in our build pipeline after compilation. I was not particularly excited about this task, it seemed like busywork to me. I…