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Replacing curl with HTTPie

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0000

If you are building out http-based services, it’s almost inevitable that you’ll need to craft HTTP requests in order to validate some of your endpoints.

Recently, I’ve become a bit of a convert away from traditional curl commands and started to adopt the tool HTTPie, which is potentially pronounced as HTT-pie?

It’s been a fantastic little tool that allows me to craft more natural HTTP requests quickly and easily and also lets me drop back down to raw curl should I need it.

Crafting the Perfect Pull Request

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:35:43 +0000

It’s become de facto in our day-to-day development to work on new features via a branch and open pull requests (or merge requests for GitLab users) to merge any changes we’ve made on our development branches into a production or deployment branch.

As a crafter of some seriously awful pull requests in my time, I figured it was worth sharing some handy reminders that will help you avoid the most grievous of mistakes that I’ve succumbed to over the years.

Splitting Code Changes into Separate Commits

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:35:43 +0000

The systems we build are inherently incredibly complex. The successful ones will encapsulate years of accumulated business logic and context and hopefully, become legacy systems that future developers will complain about or perhaps suggest rewriting entirely for no other reason that it’s a pain in their arse.

There then comes a moment of time where someone, somewhere, will start working in a section of code that features a particularly perplexing bit of logic that makes the unsuspecting developer go “huh?”.

Aliasing your Git Commands for Maximum Productivity

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 11:35:43 +0000

This is a little tip for those of you wanting to optimize your developer productivity and reduce the toil around some of the tasks that you’ll perform likely hundreds of times per week.

I tend to spend a lot of time raising pull requests, writing commits or running various git commands in order to get my current working branch in order prior to getting it merged into production.

It can feel a little tedious running git add -p or git add -A followed by git commit -m "blah" and finally either a git push origin main or git rebase -i origin/main depending on what stage of the cycle I’m in.