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The BaseCode Podcast

The BaseCode Podcast is a collection of mini-series discussions between Jason McCreary and Jess Archer on practices for writing less complex, more readable code, testing, and building products.

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

Ranked #1

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4: Primitive obsession leads to primitive code.

4: Primitive obsession leads to primitive code.

Show Notes The BaseCode Podcast My Favourite Smells by Chris Wheeler Scalar Types in PHP Integer.times in Ruby Carbon... Read more

11 Jun 2019

28mins

Ranked #2

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15: How we write tests

15: How we write tests

Show Notes 10 Tips for Crafting Maintainable Laravel Applications Outside-In Testing Developer Ergonomics Tweet about Sp... Read more

5 Nov 2019

25mins

Ranked #3

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3: Exposing the code's primary action…

3: Exposing the code's primary action…

Show Notes Shifty Plans Guard statement in Swift Cyclomatic Complexity Map, Filter, Reduce in JavaScript

4 Jun 2019

31mins

Ranked #4

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8: Your code should provide reasonable returns

8: Your code should provide reasonable returns

Show Notes The Billion Dollar Mistake by Tony Hoare Laravel HTTP Test Assertions by JMac Empty Values in PHP Introduc... Read more

9 Jul 2019

22mins

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Ranked #5

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14: The 5 Test Doubles

14: The 5 Test Doubles

Show Notes Test Doubles by Martin Fowler Tweet about Mockery Trait Tweet about Test Double Priority Push it to the b... Read more

29 Oct 2019

30mins

Ranked #6

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11: Test, test, testing… 1, 2, 3…

11: Test, test, testing… 1, 2, 3…

Show Notes Laracon AU Confident Laravel Laravel Shift Automated Test Generator Extreme Programming The Pragmatic Program... Read more

8 Oct 2019

22mins

Ranked #7

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2: Don't live with dead code!

2: Don't live with dead code!

Show Notes Outside-in testing The Pragmatic Programmer Broken Windows Theory Are you a Boy Scout? git add -p Switch stat... Read more

29 May 2019

31mins

Ranked #8

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10: Expressed the same way everywhere…

10: Expressed the same way everywhere…

Show Notes Laravel Test Generator Shift by JMac Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck PHP: a factal of bad design Symm... Read more

23 Jul 2019

27mins

Ranked #9

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5: Breaking up big blocks of code.

5: Breaking up big blocks of code.

Show Notes Rate us in Apple Podcasts return if in Ruby BaseCode Refactoring Videos

18 Jun 2019

28mins

Ranked #10

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12: Who cares, just write tests!

12: Who cares, just write tests!

In this episode, JMac and Jess discuss the different types of tests, when to use them, and ultimately what matters most ... Read more

15 Oct 2019

28mins

Ranked #11

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1: It's not about tabs or spaces, it's about honesty.

1: It's not about tabs or spaces, it's about honesty.

Show Notes Tailwind Color Picker by Jess Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers by Kevlin Henney (Visual ... Read more

21 May 2019

21mins

Ranked #12

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9: Defer code until necessary...

9: Defer code until necessary...

Show Notes Start testing your Laravel applications by JMac The Wrong Abstraction by Sandi Metz Rule of Three by Bob N... Read more

16 Jul 2019

24mins

Ranked #13

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16: Using your tests

16: Using your tests

Show Notes Tips for PHPUnit Tests by Tim MacDonald Sublime PHPUnit by Adam Wathan Effective Code Review Checklist Gett... Read more

12 Nov 2019

23mins

Ranked #14

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6: Naming things is easy…

6: Naming things is easy…

Show Notes Clean Code by Uncle Bob Two Hard Things quote by Phil Karlton The Vim Learning Curve is a Myth by Ben Oren... Read more

25 Jun 2019

29mins

Ranked #15

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7: Challenge yourself to remove comments.

7: Challenge yourself to remove comments.

Show Notes Removing Comments by Jason McCreary "90% of code comments" meme The Proximity Rule by Jason McCreary Notes... Read more

2 Jul 2019

19mins

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