Ah Mr Fox..... I have been expecting you.

Rant face has now joined the wall.

Hell yer.... Feels as good as all tests passing.

Ignorant, stale old Dev I work with discovers huge bugs with a new project. A few weeks earlier I had brought up the fact that he does zero unit and behaviour testing and got basically laughed at.......

I am going to code my ass off tonight!

I have been slack in the past with testing, in the last 2 months I have got better and better at sticking to TDD. Now I am Addicted! There is a God like feeling that comes with having written bullet proof testable code.

Anyone who thinks it's a waste of time or is putting it off just do it and stick to it, you will become a better programmer and write better code.

Sent for an interview (I am a full stack python/django/Anguar/node Dev) within 5 minutes the guy tells me they don't even have python in their stack now, could I learn Go? Rendering 80% of my experience useless.

!Rant

Starting a new side project over the holidays been planning it for weeks. That blank project excitement feeling is one of the best. Love summoning code from the depths of the code underworld to do my bidding.

Happy holidays all.

That all too familiar cross road, I have an evening to code, I have some key features of a large (work related) project to carry on with but I also have more side projects than I can possibly complete.

Side project or work project? I seem to find myself here most evenings.

Spend 3 days redesigning a core server side component which now makes the server side stack perform around 40℅ better...... Boss has some feedback, ignores new changes, requests minor CSS changes to front end...

Find a bug 5 minutes before you leave the office, spend 5 hours that evening fixing it unpaid. The next morning you continue how you were from 5 minutes before you left the previous day with that "my code no have bugz" vibe.

Creating a new class to help implement a new feature. Start with my tests (going full TDD).

Feature gets more urgency given to it, write slightly less tests as deadline approaches (half TDD).

Out of time, any future tests are burnt (no TDD) as I frantically wrap up the class with not even the time to write down a plan, it's live coding at this point.