Simon Willison: Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests aka issue oriented development including tests for documentation!

• Discovered: Nov 26, 2022 09:30 Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests <– QUOTE: With issue driven development you don’t have to remember anything about any of these projects at all. ...I’ve had issues where I did a bunch of design work in issue comments, then dropped it, then came back 12 months later and implemented that design—without having to rethink it. ...I’ve had projects where I forgot that the project existed entirely! But I’ve found it again, and there’s been an open issue, and I’ve been able to pick up work again. <– Love this issue driven approach, maybe i should adopt this for my personal hobbyist projects !!!! Seems like a lot of common sense that would also apply to work software projects; in particular failing tests if the docs aren’t written!

Previously

• August 2021: Tim Harford (via Simon Willison) The Tyranny of Spreadsheets <— don’t use them in life and death situations <– 1500 people died in England because of spreadsheets <— real moral of the story is don’t use anything in production without tests?
• January 2021: Anthony Shaw: Getting Started With Testing in Python <– I’d like to do TDD in python, ruby and R someday :-)

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