Nick VN

Software engineer. Solves business problems by building software 👨‍💻. Always balancing best practices, pragmatism and creativity.

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

🎉🎉🎉 v1.0.0! @nvnh/clock is a small library without dependencies for mocking time in #javascript.

https://t.co/nkP3ylKpjS

After using it for a while in production, a few bug fixes and usability improvements, it was time to make it official.

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

@BoyUnfit @BStulberg I think it means making concious decisions not to do things based on self-awareness instead of trying to find "balance" doing everything.

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

@nintendobenzo @astrodotbuild I didn't need a CMS with Astro because it can import Markdown files. The most recent posts only have text, but there us more rich content in older posts (mostly code samples)

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

Just converted my website from Wordpress to @astrodotbuild and now I wish I did it sooner 😅

It's much more lightweight, much easier to host and to my surprise, it didn't take a lot of time.

https://t.co/cmh5iNa6WD

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

@JelleVictoor Omg, I didn't know that existed. I went to quite a few H8000 shows back in the day.

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

Failing test, check! Time for lunch.

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

Ending your day with a new failing test is leaving a puzzle for you to solve the next day.

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

Just published a Javascript package called @nvnh/clock, a small library without dependencies for mocking time in Javascript: https://t.co/nkP3ylKpjS

It's inspired by this clock package for Go I really liked working with: https://t.co/zpiXwL71JU

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

If you feel like your diagram is getting too complicated, you're either trying to communicate too much in 1 diagram, or the problem is not with your diagram, but with an overcomplicated architecture.

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

"Our architecture diagram is getting complicated, how do we fix this? ... change your architecture." Good stuff by @simonbrown .
https://t.co/vn5GbQdyNo

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

Great points by @davefarley77 and @tdpauw . "Code reviews are not there to catch bugs." They're there to catch low quality code. New low quality code does not necessarily have more bugs. The real problems start when you start building on low quality code.

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

I’ve Found Something Better Than Pull Requests... ➡️ https://t.co/CFjdxSUfaE

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

High growth rates (in an industry, community, startup, etc) mean you have a lot of newbies; having a lot of newbies (persistently) means you have high growth rates.

One of these intuitions which people get repeatedly surprised about, so, mentioning it out loud.

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

A suggestion:

If your dev team does great work, find ways to tell the rest of the biz, in ways that they will understand and appreciate.

Try and do this without talking about the technology!

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

That's a good point and the reason I included "Make an effort to understand legacy code" in "3 underrated things great developers do" https://t.co/qfpFPyEMdN

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

When something isn't obvious, people may declare it complex.

"If I don't immediately understand it, as smart as I am, it must be because it's too convoluted. That's the only possibility."

Anything unfamiliar is declared "complex."

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

This! I once had a discussion about the need for reactive streaming for our backend-frontend communication. If we need reactive streaming to the browser, we have a design problem. We don't need to throw on complicated tech, we need to change the design.

[Cory House @housecor]

Sometimes, a performance problem is actually a design problem.

Example: “How do we fix the performance of this page showing 1,000+ items?"

Answer: Stop showing so much stuff at once.

What user can absorb 1,000’s of items? Make it easy for the user to find what they need.

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

@Pr_Brian @GeePawHill Hahaha, omg, that's great

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

Kubernetes, Event Sourcing, Chaos Engineering, ...

People are attracted to sexy, complex-sounding things because it's cool to talk about them, and they can act like it will fix all of their problems.

So let's talk about underrated things developers do: https://t.co/qfpFPymCZF

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

@johncutlefish It was especially stressful when you were on support duty (lots of small tickets) and someone would come up and ask you a question. "What ticket is this?" would be your first reply because it was hard to "hide" the time in the support tickets.

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

@johncutlefish I suddenly remember an angry e-mail from a manager of the IT department that said no invoice would be paid that didn't have all time accounted for in JIRA!

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

@Dave_Cawthorn @sowhatyasayin @jasongorman Good question, you might as well 00100000.

[Nick VN @_nickvn]

@Maaikees The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind https://t.co/TlHrhswllk