Code with Jason

In ancient times, before astronomers figured out than the Sun rather than the Earth is at the center of the solar system, astronomers tried to figure out how to model the motions of the planets under the premise of geocentrism.

I once worked for a client whose developers would sometimes embark on what they called refactoring.

An old man dies of a heart attack.

In 1976 in The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins explained that the unit of selection for evolution is not the group or species or individual but the gene.

Abstractions are not just for programming.

I’ve been thinking lately about the question of how to decide what’s a good programming practice and what’s not.

I enjoy reading nonfiction.

We all know the metaphor of technical debt.

The point of private properties on an object, like private methods and private instance variables, is so you know what you can safely refactor without having to worry that you’re going to mess up some external client that uses that object.

In a single test file, there’s often overlap among the setup data needed for the tests in the file.