Fats Waller, "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter".
This guy, one of the three people who could claim the mantle of jazz originator, is herein *stunning*. I mean. *Stunning*.
Jazz didn't come from theory, no one worked it out on paper. It came from incredible artists, making things for random doofuses like me.
It's one of the songs i sing to the woods.
My silly way to prove to the trees that we're not entirely without merit, we persons.
For real, yo, take a deep breath, this is *strong*, crazy strong, you got a combo here standing up on its hind legs doing the thing. On its hind legs, I'm saying, and supremely confident, relaxed into the zone.
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Successful microtest TDD depends on our ability to solve a goldilocks challenge: when we test our code pieces, do we isolate them too much, too little, or just right? Finding the sweet spot will mean letting go of rulesets & purity.
As is my wont, let me remind you, geekery isn't the only story going on around us. I write of it for my rest & comfort, and perhaps for yours, but it's a break from more important things.
Black Lives Matter.
Please keep working for change and supporting those who do.
The five premises we've been over: value, judgment, correlation, steering, and pieces, guide us in a complicated dance of software design. At the center of that dance is our awareness of -- and our manipulation of -- "dependency", how one part of the code uses other parts of it.
It's c14. The free water is nearly done draining into my big reservoir. I have a tendency to go off half-cocked and start exploring right away, but what I need to do is get my mid-game build on.
The next food source will be shrooms and bbq, both of them take a while to come online. I'd need 44 shrooms for my planned 16 dups, but by the time I got all that, I'd be moving off shrooms anyway. I'm going to shoot for about 25 of them.
ONI: offs, I let it run for two hours with no save. Now we start all over again. Good thing it's the second mini-Friday and mini-Saturday of the week. Let's begin again.
Same basic deal, a single column base. Last time I had good luck with a basic frame of 25 wide, but with small extensions out to the right. Hatches outside, dreckos inside. I found a *slick* drecko build that's three 4-by's tall and covers both kinds.
Gonna oxygenate everywhere, that worked well, but I got sloppy over time, and this time I'm gonna hold to the premise. The only real cheat: I happen to know the AETN /water geyser is off to the east. But I will still open up the west to begin, as that's how I did it last time.
Because microtest TDD is more a "way of geeking" than a technique or a received body of knowledge, building one's faculties is a long and sometimes perilous effort. Let's talk about learning.
(I, too, feel a little relief just now, tho not as much as some, because recent events aren't an ending, they're the beginning of a lot of work.
Black Lives Matter.
Stay safe, stay strong, stay angry, stay kind.
Let's keep changing this.)
I want to approach the question(s) of learning TDD in some ways that are a little different from others I've seen. I've written two TDD curricula myself, and am involved currently in helping with two more. I see all of them, including the current ones, as "interesting failures".