Separation
One of the good things that I picked up during my short but eventfully learning stint at Simpl was how long a well thought about domain data model can go. The one that I couldn’t for my life, was tests. Jokes aside, this …
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Changes
After a humongous release cycle, sat down earlier today to spend some time on an improvement. The long term pending idea is to move the order processing system into a well managed event-driven one. As a first step, …
Progress
The last week and a bit more have been insane in terms of being away from writing - be it code, or a note. So, amidst a long “get to know the product” session from the founder, sat down improving the GraphQL sanitiser. …
Waves
The last few days have been a slump - both in terms of productivity and writing. A few steps, must be acknowledged, are working thereof though. A five day hiatus now coming to an end with a bulk of the pending ones on …
Checklists
Checklists on paper are underrated and fancy tools, almost always, overrated. Back to jotting down on paper JIRAs that need action on priority, dependencies that need follow-up, and tasks for self that need focus time. …
Sprint or Slump
Allen Holub made an interesting quote during the course of a talk that struck a good chord. Scrum is basically a wrapper put around Extreme programming in order to make it more palatable for management. One of the …
Sluices
One of the concerns about a water body like a dam is how well maintained the sluices are. And one should add to it, how well the pressure safety valves are engineered. Encountered yet another of our current stacks’ …
Freedom
Inching in some sense towards a freedom; another I’m trying to free is our APIs’ hackiness. Spent a bit on a vlog series that focuses on a new OS/language development. A couple of ideas to provide a slim, robust layer …
A few thoughts on bounds and validity of perception
The spatio-temporal bounds of perception and thereupon and thenceforth of inference make the two invalid modes of cognition and of assertion insofar the dominion of matters such as god are concerned. Whilst one might on …
Of a scaffold, a safety net, and more such
For most of my POCs/experimental work, I use my own [HTTP server package] (https://github.com/techiev2/node-http-server) and a scaffold bash script that boostraps a complete API including base tests, package.json, and …