Workaday Readings are the droll, dry, and dear pages I continuously tick through during my day.

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Does WWW still belong in URLs?

“DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Google, Instagram, and Facebook. This group has chosen to redirect example.com to www.”


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Dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution

“Key takeaways Developer environments in the cloud have existed for years Everything turns into SaaS, but should your dev environment, really? Service availability can never match localhost Pay-as-you-go pricing is for privileged people only and locks out many The fully baked solution is a hybrid tha”


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Stop mocking about: Event Dispatcher

“I don’t like mocks in unit testing (I use them, but don’t like them). It often results in tests that only assure some specific method was called with certain parameters. It is this approach that may lead some to think that writing tests is writing the code twice, and therefore a waste of time.”


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