Notes

It’s time to bite the bullet and clear some technical debt. All About Berlin has unit tests, but they’re run manually, and some of them are a pain to update. As the website’s tools grow in complexity, manual testing is quickly becoming unsustainable. A change in the health insurance calculator logic might break the tax calculator, and I won’t notice until someone complains.

This cowboy coder has yee’d his last haw, and started rewriting his tests to be easier to understand and easier to update. The goal is to iterate towards a fully automated CI/CD pipeline. Pretty fancy for a blog!

“There’s lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.

And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something’s transmitted there. And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what’s really important to us.”

—Steve Jobs, 2007