Posts with #code-quality

Wed, 23 September 2026

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The AI Tax: What Using LLMs Every Day Actually Costs Me

AI makes me faster. It also quietly takes things from me: ownership of the code, the joy of finishing something, and the skills I spent years building. This is the tax I pay, and how I'm learning to pay less of it.

5 min read

Mon, 15 September 2025

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Stop Guessing. Start Measuring. The Frontend Quality Playbook.

How to build frontend systems that scale sustainably: measure what matters, prevent instead of patch, design for the long term, and base decisions on evidence - not assumptions.

5 min read

Mon, 26 May 2025

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The One Tool You Can't Afford to Skip

Forget frameworks and libraries. The most powerful tool for a junior developer is ESLint. It forces consistency, catches bugs, and makes you a better programmer.

4 min read

Tue, 22 April 2025

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Testing Strategies for Modern React Apps: Unit, Integration, and Visual Regression

Testing React apps doesn't have to be scary. Learn the basics of unit, integration, and visual regression testing with popular tools.

5 min read

Sat, 19 April 2025

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How To Actually Test Your Frontend Code

Writing tests on the frontend that matter is hard. What exactly to test can feel a bit mysterious and can lead to bad practices of either test the wrong things or testing less critical stuff on the page

6 min read

Thu, 17 April 2025

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Why I Stopped Obsessing Over 100% Unit Test Coverage

Our CI pipelines required 100% coverage. Here's how it backfired and what I now focus on instead.