A lot of people, when they start with TDD, get annoyed when you say that you may have to rewrite a lot of stuff, including whatever your already wrote.

"Things I Learnt The Hard Way (In 30 Years of Software Development)" started as a simple sequence of toots (the same as "tweets", on Mastodon when I was thinking about a new presentation I could do.

But why "a new presentation"?

"Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file." -- Louis Srygley

Don't know how to solve your problem? Write the steps as comments in your code.

Random thought about the previous post about "Things I Learnt The Hard Way".

This is a cynical, clinical collection of things I learnt in 30 years working with software development.

Again, some things are really cynical, others are long observations on different jobs.

In a previous life, I had a long discussion on why adding booleans was a bad idea. And just recently one of the core Python developers suggested the same thing -- adding booleans, that is. This is a long rant on why such things are bad.

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