http://justin.abrah.ms/feed 2020-10-30T21:27:00Z Justin Abrahms PyAtom http://justin.abrah.ms/python/why_pisces.html 2013-07-09T12:00:00Z Justin Abrahms Pisces is a Python web framework that was written with testing in mind. It was birthed as a reaction to the typical workflow in a Django project, which I've come to dislike as it encourages you to make your code tightly coupled and less testable. http://justin.abrah.ms/python/pyatom_as_static_site_syndication.html 2013-07-17T01:27:00Z Justin Abrahms Bitten by the bug to write more and for others, I've brought back syndication (via Atom rather than RSS) to the blog. http://justin.abrah.ms/computer-science/big-o-notation-explained.html 2013-07-23T14:00:00Z Justin Abrahms http://justin.abrah.ms/computer-science/how-to-calculate-big-o.html 2013-07-29T14:00:00Z Justin Abrahms As a follow-up to my explaination of Big-O, I wrote a short article on how you can figure out what the Big-O for a function is. http://justin.abrah.ms/mentoring/databases-as-an-excel-file.html 2013-09-19T20:00:00Z Justin Abrahms I was having a conversation recently around the value of databases as opposed to flat files and the question "What is the essence of a database?" came up. I explained it as it relates to Excel files, which I think is surprisingly apt. http://justin.abrah.ms/misc/state_of_githubs_code_review.html 2013-09-26T07:00:00Z Justin Abrahms Code review is an essential part of a team's shipping process. It helps disseminate knowledge across teams, catches bugs (or more likely poor architectural decisions) before they bite you, and provide opportunities to educate junior engineers. GitHub, the current de facto standard for this, is letting us down. http://justin.abrah.ms/js/javascript-reafactoring-without-ides.html 2013-10-16T07:00:00Z Justin Abrahms I describe my use of a node library, falafel, to modify my work's javascript code. This allows for programmatic refactoring without firing up an IDE. http://justin.abrah.ms/python/selenium-page-object-pattern--the-key-to-maintainable-tests.html 2013-11-05T12:00:00Z Justin Abrahms At Sprint.ly, we've been investing in the longer term health of our code base. Part of our strategy for handling this involves selenium testing. Read more to find out the testing strategy we use to make this easier. http://justin.abrah.ms/js/book-review-backbonejs-testing.html 2013-11-12T08:00:00Z Justin Abrahms Ryan Roemer, the author of [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/178216524X/ref%3Das_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie%3DUTF8&camp%3D1789&creative%3D9325&creativeASIN%3D178216524X&linkCode%3Das2&tag%3Djusabrblo-20][Backbone.js Testing]], wrote a post to the Seattle-area JavaScript developer's mailing list to ask if anyone was interested in reviewing his book. As I have been diving into front-end testing at Sprint.ly, I agreed to review it. I was interested in how our setup compared to the setup he was advocating. http://justin.abrah.ms/js/node-knockout-play-and-experiment.html 2013-11-12T08:01:00Z Justin Abrahms This weekend, I competed in Node Knockout, a 48-hour coding competition designed around Node.js. For my idea, I chose to write a visualization of an AST querying language called cssauron. http://justin.abrah.ms/misc/imhotep-code-review-assistance.html 2013-12-29T15:00:00Z Justin Abrahms Over the holiday break, I got a long-standing side project into a working state. Imhotep is a tool that will enforce coding standards on pull requests and commits. It accomplishes this by running code linters and commenting on your GitHub pull requests with any violations. http://quickleft.com/blog/is-web-scraping-ethical 2014-02-26T00:00:00Z Justin Abrahms Someone recently asked: "Is web scraping an ethical concept?" I believe that web scraping is absolutely an ethical concept. Web scraping (or screen scraping) is a mechanism to have a computer read a website. There is absolutely no technical difference between an automated computer viewing a website and a human-driven computer viewing a website. Furthermore, if done correctly, scraping can provide many benefits to all involved. http://quickleft.com/blog/pull-request-templates-make-code-review-easier 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z Justin Abrahms We do a bunch of code reviews at Sprint.ly. One of the things we've done to make that process a little easier is institute a code review template. This template is a free-form list of questions that every person filling out a pull request uses. http://quickleft.com/blog/pycon-2014-was-awesome 2014-04-30T00:00:00Z Justin Abrahms PyCon was a ton of fun this year. Always the highlight of my conference season, 2014 was no exception. http://quickleft.com/blog/nodeconf-2014-a-story-of-aspiration-and-community 2014-07-09T10:00:00Z Justin Abrahms This year, I helped mentor NodeConf 2014, which was an amazing experience. I highly encourage you to get involved next year in any way you can. Mikeal Rogers puts on a fantastic conference that's sure to delight. More about the revelations I had after the jump. https://justin.abrah.ms/js/real-time-code-coverage-analysis.html 2015-04-09T19:00:00Z Justin Abrahms I recently sat down to write a node service and happened upon a very helpful workflow when trying to get reasonable test coverage that I wanted to share. https://justin.abrah.ms/misc/microconf-2015-recap.html 2015-04-19T14:00:00Z Justin Abrahms I've just returned from MicroConf 2015. MicroConf, a conference for self-backed startup entrepeneurs. Click here for a recap of the best stuff. https://justin.abrah.ms/life/altruism-in-the-job-hunt.html 2015-11-11T17:10:00Z Justin Abrahms I recently accepted a job at MIT's Office of Digital Learning. It wasn't the technology or the organization's prestige that caused me to join up. https://justin.abrah.ms/python/literate-api-testing-with-dredd.html 2015-11-12T18:00:00Z Justin Abrahms In my latest project at MIT, I came across a really interesting piece of technology which allows you to run tests against your API documentation. https://justin.abrah.ms/misc/an-overview-of-guice-java-dependency-injection.html 2016-08-30T05:00:00Z Justin Abrahms At work, I've been using Guice. Some members of my team aren't familiar with it, so I wrote this up for them. https://justin.abrah.ms/misc/automatic-whiteboard-snapper.html 2019-02-10T18:00:00Z Justin Abrahms Six people live in my house. We don't have strong technology overlap (some folks in the house only use simple phones and others aren't keen on things like slack or similar). We've addressed this by centralizing around a large whiteboard in our kitchen space. This holds things like grocery lists, house announcements, and similar. I often do grocery shopping on my way home, but rarely remember to snap a photo of the list before leaving for work. https://justin.abrah.ms/misc/how-to-make-a-font-on-ubuntu-ppa.html 2019-09-19T12:27:00Z Justin Abrahms I created a PPA for Microsoft's Cascadia Code font and I took notes as I went. https://justin.abrah.ms/ops/first-and-second-order-metrics.html 2020-10-30T21:27:00Z Justin Abrahms As part of my work with Walmart, I've been thinking a lot about cross-organizational metrics and which matter.