Two weeks ago, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in NumHack 2024 alongside Jurij Wollert and Fabrizio Damicelli ... and to our amazement, we won 1st place in the Build Category 🧱
We came for the fun, we stayed for the challenge, and we left with the prize 🏆
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Spoiler alert: If you want to get a sense of the final outcome before reading the rest of the post, you can watch the video submission we prepared.
If you took the wise decision to test your codebase, you probably stumbled upon pytest as the defacto tool that offers a large suite of features and extensions.
However, there is a neat trick I like to use when testing, and I often get the "Wow! TIL about that!" reaction when introducing it.
No I am not talking about the physical legos. Although as a kid I truly loved playing with them, I am talking about collaborating in the maintenance and development of scikit-lego.
Since I joined HelloFresh, I have been involved in a significant number of code reviews since the very first day at the company.
As code reviews are a fundamental part of software development process and take a large part of my day to day, I immediately started to take it very seriously.
.gitignoreI was today years old when I learned about the possibility of setting a global .gitignore file.
As one does when the end of the year is approaching, I took some time to reflect on the past year.
Last weekend I was meeting with a former colleague of mine and we were discussing about some python code, as one does during a weekend.
Roughly one year ago I attended one of the most interesting and fun (online) conference you could ever attend: the one and only NormConf, organized by Vicki Boykis.