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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.

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The most important thing when writing code…

The most important thing when writing code…

Show Notes Jason McCreary Jess Archer BaseCode Field Guide WTFs per minute Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck

21 May 2019

25mins

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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