Justin Fuller — Software Engineer

Why do we fall into the rewrite trap?

Tue Jan 21, 2020 by Justin Fuller

One of my favorite reads is Joel Spolsky's Things You Should Never Do. He wrote this post almost twenty years ago, outlining the downfall of Netscape and others because they spent years rewriting working code. His solution is, unsurprisingly, to refactor. About a year before Joel wrote Things You Should Never Do, Martin Fowler published his popular book, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.

So, my question is, if we as a community figured out — twenty years ago — that we should stop rewriting programs, why is it still commonly done today?

Go Things I Love: Channels and Goroutines

Mon Jan 06, 2020 by Justin Fuller

This series, Go Things I Love, is my attempt to show the parts of Go that I like the best, as well as why I love working with it at The New York Times.

In my last post Go Things I Love: Methods On Any Type, I demonstrated a feature of Go that makes it easy to build Object-Oriented software.

This post, Channels and Goroutines, will demonstrate a few neat concurrency patterns in Go.

Go Things I Love: Methods On Any Type

Sat Dec 14, 2019 by Justin Fuller

Now that I am working with Go as my primary language at The New York Times, I want to explore some of my favorite features of the language. I don't intend this to reveal previously unknown features or best practices; I just want to share some of the reasons that I enjoy working with the language.

Keep a git repository of all your practice code

Sun Oct 13, 2019 by Justin Fuller

Are you struggling to find projects to showcase to potential employers? Have you been practicing LeetCode as you prepare to interview for a Software Development job? Do you occasionally practice a Kata on Codewars to keep your skills from getting rusty?

Service calls make your tests better

Fri Jul 19, 2019 by Justin Fuller

TL;DR: If all tests are mocked, you don’t know if your code works, you only know that, theoretically, it is supposed to work if the integrations adhere to the contract you expect.