October 2022 Update

Published on 10 November 2022.

This is what I’ve been up to in October 2022:

• I started exploring projectional editing with rlproject. For now, I’m trying to implement something like what ProjecturEd describes in its documentation to learn how that might work.

• I watched “Stop Writing Dead Programs” by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022). It showed what a better development environment might look like. It also showed that a projectional editor might make your program feel more alive than a plain text editor. Hillel Wayne points out that the talk has factual errors. Nevertheless, I found it inspiring.

• I watched End to end functional tests that can run in milliseconds | Nat Pryce | CukenFest London 2017. Nat showed an interesting approach to testing you application in a flexible way.

• I watched Pairin’ with Aaron: Messing with Language Servers. I learned about languages servers (LPS’s) and their integration with the development environment.

• I watched some episodes of the Mob Mentality Show and found them interesting.

• I published another four programming videos on my Youtube channel:

  • Writing and testing a tiny application without mocks.
  • I demo a tool that makes me super quick at the command line and more.
  • How to check balanced string TDD style + a bonus.
  • Demo of new project that explores projectional, structured editing.