Kevin Berridge

Programmer, and hobbies. Director of Engineering @ Matrix Pointe Software.

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

@timothyandrew late to the party I know, but I just read your "A Better Model for Stacked PRs" article and it's incredible! thanks! https://t.co/X63Sy3nGfk

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

@ag_dubs just listened to your episode on Software Unscripted from Aug 2023, loved it, thanks!

[Nicholas Blumhardt @nblumhardt]

#Serilog 4 is out! 😎

https://t.co/RohW1NLaSm

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

Should I go deep into @NotionHQ ? Am I going to love this thing??

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

I should have known... @shadyrays "free" replacement actually costs $18 due to a "processing " fee.

They are not high quality, and I had to return the first couple because they were defective. Replacement only lasts 2 years now, and it's actually $18! Would no longer recommend.

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

I've been struggling with this FOREVER. So, please, someone, help point me in the right direction! Please!

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

Maybe @elmlang has warped my brain... But I REALLY want commands in @reactjs useReducers.

I want to do `dispatch({action: "setKeyword", keyword})`, and have the reducer return **something** that tells **someone** to do an ajax search. Please tell me this is a thing??

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

I usually end up writing a useEffect instead. But I just hit a situation where I want the useEffect to run but NOT if one small part of a complex state is changed. So the dep array was NOT ENOUGH. I was forced to split the state in two, and that was painful and duplicative.

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

One time it was a profile button, then it was a split window button, a side bar, the profile button AGAIN. I originally liked Edge because I found the design clean and streamlined. I guess that's not what they liked about it though...

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

I switched to @firefox today because @MicrosoftEdge once again added crap to the toolbar that I don't want, and this time, they didn't provide a way to turn it off. This time it was a sidebar button, but it seems like it is always something and it is always clutter.

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

@remcomulder It's like traces in darklang! How neat!

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

Well, the new ads on prime video are garbage. Not just cause of the ads... I paused a movie, came back a couple mins later, and it lost my spot, started from the beginning, and made me rewatch ALL of the ads. 🤨 @PrimeVideo

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

@ChShersh @jacobgold Lately, I've been brainstorming about ways to sort of combine specifications, design collaboration, planning code changes in advance, and diff review. Like what if the code review was literally inside the spec? Can't say I have anything concrete, but it's an idea lol

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

@dataenggdude @ChShersh Would love to know more of what you mean by RFC in this context!

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

@jacobgold Thanks! We use Azure Devops, so the github based ones are a no-go. If you're familiar with it, is Review Board in the same space?

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

Does anyone do "stacked diff" code review (as opposed to Pull Request style)?

Learning Jujutsu VCS has led me into the stacked diffs world and I'm intrigued!

I've been looking for lightweight tooling to maybe try it out, but coming up mostly empty.

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

@housecor Yes, but this is hard cause things change! Sometimes, things that didn't work for me might work now because other things are different.

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

Wow! I always loved Mercurial, and I still, to this day, hate git. Is Jujutsu the answer to my prayers?? https://t.co/pwJ6FaOS0v

[Kevin Berridge @kberridge]

@ardalis They aren't objects (not really), they're more like a functional module.