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Most people who write tests for Gilded Rose are doing it wrong! Let me show you the BEST way to write tests for this kind of legacy code. My video contains a code demo and explanation of why this approach works so well, using Kent Beck 🌻 's test desiderata

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Recently, I finished Tidy First by Kent Beck 🌻

I highly recommend it. While reading it, I constantly said, “Yeah, this is exactly what I do.”

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Behavioral Composition is the ability to:
* Imagine small increments of behavior
* That together add up to big increments of behavior
* And you're confident in this process

Some critiques of TDD sound to me like the critic doesn't have this skill.

My professional life improved when I adopted this rule: if someone is making money then I am making money too.

When I was starting my undergrad CS degree in 1995, the prevalent assumption was that the thesis of the '94 best seller, 'The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer', by Edward Yourdon, was airtight.

Chesterton’s Fence only applies to irreversible decisions

The game is not better predicting the future, but better adapting to how the present is different from your expectations.

.Kent Beck 🌻 is discussing his latest book—'Tidy First?'—tomorrow (Friday, March 15th) at 3pm PT. We had some last-minute cancellations, so a handful of tickets are still up for grabs. RSVP now to avoid disappointment (limit 2 tickets per person): link below.

I appreciate a thoughtful reading like this. They are doing the work.

Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' offers surprising insight into the problem of adjusting boundaries between software elements. open.substack.com/pub/tidyfirst/… (from the archives circa 2009)

Amy Jo Kim Kent Beck 🌻 Every leader & CEO in every tech company must study & understand the profound implications of Kent’s 3X framework. This would solve / prevent so many of the execution & hiring problems senior leaders spend many quarters and even years solving, without really making much progress.

Mathias Verraes Simon J. Painter | MVP | O'Reilly Author Glenn F. Henriksen This advice by @kentbeck on how to write an abstract good enough to be accepted at OOPSLA is still gold. plg.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/researc…

Mezcal is wasted in a margarita. Everything that makes mezcal better than tequila degrades a margarita.

New podcast episode out! 🎙️🔥

Today’s guest is Kent Beck (Kent Beck 🌻), original signer of the Agile manifesto, creator of Extreme Programming, and all-round programming legend.

With Kent we had the unique opportunity to talk about the big picture. I inquired him about the state…

This is “Mastering Programming', my list of topics for those wanting to, well, you know.