Friday, January 16, 2026

sacred cows

it is funny (pukey, not ha-ha) that testing is supposed to be this hallowed thing in software development, but i have pretty much never encountered any development environment where testing worked out of the box. test runners all suck. the apis all suck. the overall ux end to end always sucks. 

a little bit it is a collision of worlds. as a programmer i want to be able to insert a printf() in a test and have it show up easily somewhere obvious when i run the test(s). but nooooo that's often such a no-no, the tests obviously should make that nigh impossible.

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