Best practices are for idiots. Learn pragmatism instead — Here on Medium, many articles are what I would call success porn. I made 10 million dollars last week and so can you with these 17 simple steps. Sure, bro. I don’t believe you but I’ll click your headline anyway because my monkey-brain is going haywire at the thought of…

Key points from a must-read book for programmers — I recently wrote about “5 Books That Changed the Way I Code.” In the comments, several readers recommended “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin. As a result, I’ve now read the book and found it worthy of an in-depth review. About the Book “Clean Code” was published in 2008, and over recent years…

We continue a journey through the SOLID principles by presenting the one which has the most significant impact on unit testing in Go — The Dependency InversionPrinciple. — Learning a new programming language is often a straightforward process. I often hear: “The first programming language you learn in a year. The second one in a month. Third one in a week, and then each next one in a day.”. Saying that is an exaggeration, but it is not…

Improve your coding style — Clearly, coding is the responsibility of a good programmer so that everyone can read and understand his code. “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” ― Martin Fowler 11 Tips about clean code I have discussed below Clean code means not about code only; it’s also about writing…

A Garbage Idea For Brainless Programmers Incapable Of Independent Thought — Single responsibility principle. Single, responsibility, principle. Single. Responsibility. Principle. It should be obvious from that one line why I hate the single responsibility principle so much. But in case it isn’t here’s an entire article just elaborating. It’s The Slogan So recently we’ve seen some pretty questionable slogans. I mean there’s ‘defund the…

Uncle Bob’s SOLID principles are famous in the programming world. Almost every developer at least heard about them. They are considered common knowledge and you are told to follow them but I think these rules should not be followed blindly. I often find myself disagreeing with the “Do not repeat…

Advice for cleaner and better Python code — In this article, we’ll be taking a look at two common coding styles that programmers use to handle scenarios where a piece of code might fail: “Look Before You Leap” (LBYL) and “Easier To Ask for Forgiveness Than Permission” (EAFP). If you aren’t familiar with the LBYL vs. EAFP debate…

Most programmers even don't know that they are writing bad code — If you are a programmer, I am sure you use something like Github to store your code. Just look at the old code you wrote a year ago or more. …

And it’s something that you probably do anyway — In my line of work, I read code all day, every day, be it code reviews of new features or making out head or tail of old ones. If you’re like me, you might even be going through code bases over decades old. That’s almost three centuries in the computer…

We continue a journey through the SOLID principles by presenting the one which gives flexibility to applications — The Open/Closed Principle. — Many different approaches and principles provide a long-term improvement in our code. Some of them are well-known in software development society, and some are somehow under the radar. My opinion is that is the case with The Open/Closed Principle, which stands for the letter O in the word SOLID. …

A Short and Clean Approach to Processing Iterables — Motivation map and filter are two efficient Python methods to work with iterables. However, the code can look messy if you use both map and filter at the same time. Wouldn’t be nice if you can use pipes | to apply multiple methods on an iterable like below?

Unlocking everyone to make the impossible possible — Quotations are drops of thoughts that sometimes reach deep into our souls and give us insights that a hundred books cannot. I looked at various sources and found them, happy to share with everyone. Human “I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.” by Kent Beck. …