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by scresswell 18d ago
Yadda 3 makes it easier to write executable specifications in the natural language of the business. Here are the principles and practices I use to keep those specifications simple, expressive and useful, whether they're being read and
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by scresswell 24d ago
Announcing `drizzle-transact` and `drizzle-explain`: two small libraries that turn good intentions into good mechanisms.
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Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents(stephen-cresswell.com)
66 points by scresswell 1mo ago|28 comments
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by scresswell 1mo ago
Yadda 3.0.0 is out. The release modernises the JavaScript BDD library, but more interestingly, it was largely built by Claude Code and points to why executable specifications may become even more valuable in an agentic development world.
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More Experiences of Vibe Coding(stephen-cresswell.com)
1 points by scresswell 7mo ago|1 comments
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by scresswell 7mo ago
Further experience with Claude has strengthened my view that code quality matters more, not less, in the age of vibe coding. Left unguided, it amplifies duplication and weak abstractions; tightly constrained, it can be impressively precise.
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by scresswell 8mo ago
Yes, SKIP LOCKED is great. In practice you nearly always want LIMIT, which the article did not mention. Be careful if your selection spans multiple tables: only the relations you explicitly lock are protected (see SELECT … FOR UPDATE OF t1,
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by scresswell 8mo ago
I genuinely like the framing of advisory versus authoritative AI, and I agree with the core observation that authority, when it is genuinely granted, is what unlocks step change improvements rather than marginal efficiency gains. In the env
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Why Are Experiences of Vibe Coding So Polarised?(stephen-cresswell.com)
3 points by scresswell 8mo ago|0 comments
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by scresswell 2y ago
Seriously? Bun has over 500 open issues with the label "crash". https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3... The socket implementation is broken too https://github.com/
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NPM Search Is Broken(stephen-cresswell.com)
1 points by scresswell 2y ago|0 comments
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Prisma and the Naivety of Crowds(stephen-cresswell.com)
1 points by scresswell 2y ago|0 comments
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by scresswell 6y ago
I've tried this approach twice with mixed success. In both cases I wanted to stub out the persistence tier of a Node.js application when test driving the API. I verified the real and fake implementations by running the same tests again
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by scresswell 7y ago
I was in a similar position. The following helped. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Millionaire-Teacher-Wealth-Should-L... https://canadiancouchpotato.com/
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by scresswell 7y ago
Also dyslexic and also used to mirror write perfectly, but without knowing I was doing it. Was in the late 70s, prior to dyslexia being widely understood and my teachers had no idea what to do.
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So you want to write open source?(stephen-cresswell.net)
2 points by scresswell 8y ago|0 comments
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When Orange Isn't The New Black(stephen-cresswell.net)
1 points by scresswell 9y ago|0 comments
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10½ Factor Microservices(stephen-cresswell.net)
3 points by scresswell 9y ago|0 comments
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by scresswell 10y ago
What a very strange article. TES were using docker in production in October 2014. It was certainly possible to run docker containers (docker run -d) in the background and to view them (docker ps) as early as October 2013 when we first evalu
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DevOps – You're doing it wrong(guidesmiths.com)
2 points by scresswell 10y ago|0 comments
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by scresswell 12y ago
A fool and his money are easily parted
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by scresswell 12y ago
Hi chatmasta, Thanks for you're comment - we agree that the deployment of micro-services is more complicated, although we disagree it has to be a nightmare. Not wanting to jump the gun on my next blog post too much, the deployment solu
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The Granularity of a Micro-Service(guidesmiths.com)
7 points by scresswell 12y ago|2 comments