I'm Gerry Pass, a web developer with six years of industry experience, specializing in React, Node, Rails, and Cypress.
Cypress ' documentation on Variables and Aliases does a great job explaing all the options. What I'd like to propose is the best option. I have gone back and forth with how to set and get…
Sometimes we have CLI processes that take a long time. Long time: any length of time longer than one's attention span When we're going about our workflow, we are hopefully working on the highest…
TL;DR I just finished Cousera's Learning How to Learn and I learned a lot. I recommend it for anyone in web development. My personal key learnings can be found below. If you want to read all of my…
I often jokingly say to my friends, "You need to get your life together." It's weird for me to say that, considering not that long ago my life was most definitely not in order. About a year ago, all…
Feature Flagging is incredibly powerful as it enables canary releases . Good tools, such as LaunchDarkly , allow you (the developer) or the product manager (PM) to easily toggle on who sees what…
It's incredibly frustrating when you start a test suite, step away for a few minutes, then come back and see that the whole test suite failed. 0% passing. You spend a few minutes diving in to the…
Magic Numbers. They are an anti-pattern because they are arbitrary and provide no context. This leads to confusion ("What is this number?") and fear of removing it ("I can't remove it. I don't know…