Dan Lew Codes

It’s hard for me to overstate how much my coding has improved since embracing automated testing.

I once wrote about how I've stopped nit-picking in code reviews, which improved the signal-to-noise ratio and helped everyone get along better.

Like many software developers, I’ve been considering the future of my profession in the face of AI.

I’ve been a rhythm game fiend since my introduction to Dance Dance Revolution in the early 2000s.

For better or worse, my life has become infested by Jest mocks.

This is a writeup of a talk I gave at Minnebar 20.

Journalists, I beg of you: please stop confusing unsold eBay listings for actual sales.

During the pandemic my weird vice/obsession became Displates (metal wall art hung up by magnets): Some of my Displates (along with other tchotchkes in my office) For me, part of the hobby was poking holes in their website.

My most recent “just for fun” project was to find the least erratic of the Erratic decks in Balatro (a poker-ish roguelike deckbuilder game).

It’s likely that, at some point, you've had shitty audio during video meetings.

Let me tell you a story about why one should be cautious with databases that track the real world.

Most of my programming ventures begin with a single line of code I’m curious about.

Software development (or, you know, life in general) is all about juggling priorities.

As a summary, here's what I'm voting this year on my Edina, MN ballot (along with links to research on why I'm voting that way): For all partisan races (president, senate, house/state reps) - the DFL candidate.

Another post about local Edina politics, this time the city council race.

Continuing blogging about Edina local politics… today’s race: mayor!