Andy G's Blog

If you truncate a UUID I will truncate your fingers

“Oh I just needed something random but also human-readable” you said, as you casually called .Substring(8) on a UUID. You probably also “casually” mutilate animals like you did to that poor UUID. Great job on that name, too, Shakespeare. Item_019b1999 is going to be the next buzzword all the youths are yelling. Very human-readable.
Minimum Reviewable Unit

In 2016, Microsoft made a pull request to Node.js that added almost 3 million lines of code. The Node.js maintainers were actually super cool about it, since it enabled Node.js to use Microsoft’s pretty decent Javascript engine (ChakraCore) optimized for Windows. They were in a bit of a pickle, however, since they didn’t really get…
Why that one coworker got fired for no reason

(Featured image by Camille Couvez on Unsplash)
How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal
You probably wrote half a monad by accident
Don’t push ifs up, put them as close to the source of data as possible

If there’s an if condition inside a function, consider if it could be moved to the caller instead
Smart Constructors
Uniform random sampling on a disc
Friendly reminder to mark your move constructors noexcept

Just put noexcept on your move constructors. Better yet, let the compiler do it.
Cracking the code review (Part 4): Conflict management