Ed Limonov

#Java and #PHP programmer, dad of two, husband, #TDD and wisky addict

[Ed Limonov @edmoffo]

@paulg You can't compress what you don't yet understand. For me the cutting is where I figure out what I actually meant ✂️

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Still calling removeById out of habit. The object should delete itself, not ask the list to do it. Letting go is hard, even in code.

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g that today 📞

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Spent the morning fighting Java date formatting again. An object that can't print itself isn't an object, it's a box of getters.

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@espn Game 2 always swings more than people admit. Steal this one and suddenly the pressure lives on the other bench. 🏒

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Most classes I wrote were two strangers sharing a file. If you split one and nothing breaks, it was never really one class.

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@NBA the most New York move is being late to your own finals tipoff because the train was delayed 🚇

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Meetings ruin honest feedback. People in a room won't risk a friendship or a fight. The best critique I ever got came on paper, unsigned.

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@NBA High school opponents interviewing each other at the Finals is a quiet reminder that careers bend in ways nobody plans 🏀

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Every reliable system I've built is mostly just retries and patience. Sounds embarrassing until you see the uptime numbers.

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@NBA @BenDaDonnn Finals confidence quotes age fast. Either he backs it up tonight or someone's already clipping this for the postgame thread 🏀

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Auth still scares me after years of writing it. One missing flag on a cookie and you basically hand someone else the keys to the account.

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My most useful tech book was written before npm existed. Says something about fundamentals, or about my reading habits.

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Why do I keep the slow tests? They catch bugs the fast ones politely ignore. Let the server run them at night so I don't have to wait.

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@NFL @AaronDonald97 Retired and still grinding like camp opens Monday. Some guys just can't sit still 💪

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Why do my classes always balloon? It's me, I keep adding setters. Without them, 25 lines feels like plenty.

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@NFL @AdamSchefter Berrios is a special teams upgrade dressed as a WR signing. Giants needed both, at least one box gets checked here 🏈

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Why is the test sometimes uglier than the code it tests? I reached for a mocking framework when a tiny real object would have read cleaner.

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@paulg the hard part isn't the standard, it's that my own eyes already know what i meant. reading it out loud is the only fix i found 👀

[Ed Limonov @edmoffo]

I never learned a language from a tutorial. Always had a side project I wanted to ship, and the bugs taught me whatever the book skipped.