What is DotNet Try?
Do you prefer reading or doing? How about both? DotNet Try pulls in C# code from your project and turns your docs into an interactive experience.
Grant
Be ready to explain your code
Does the mere thought of explaining your code cause anxiety? Be confident! We should all understand what we're writing and why. It's an opportunity (for everyone) to learn!
Scratch that itch for coding!
Learning a little about programming could benefit anyone. If you want a fun intro to coding and logical thinking, check out Scratch!
3 inspiring apps from the DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon
A few of my favorite submissions from DigitalOcean's App Platform hackathon, that hold real promise for bringing people together!
What is mocking a dependency?
When you're writing tests, you generally don't want to write to the database, email customers, and hit third-party API's. That's why we need to know how to mock dependencies!
What is a code review / pull request?
Does the idea of submitting to a code review make you sweat bullets? Or do you brush it off as a necessary evil? It should be a (hopefully positive) conversation, wherein the team agrees to the code they're all going to have to help maintain, and maybe learns something new too.
The transient nature of code
I just deleted my coworkers code. 😱 It was good code that wasn't needed anymore, and he understood why. The nature of coding is that it's a progression, and any individual code is transient by nature. Today's code is subject to tomorrow's refactoring.