The Boy Scout Rule is mostly non-sense. In any moderately complex system the smallest changes can have wide spread & unforeseen effects. Technical debt is a problem & fixing it should be just as important to the business as fixing…
Matt Hensley
A collection of 9 posts
Knowing When to Quit
For the past few months I have had pet project. I know, huge surprise. This was the one I thought, "When this is finished it will be a game changer". I stayed up late writing code, designing the perfect architecture,…
Ship it: Six Months In
I am a little more than six months into a year long challenge to deliver something new each month. Forcing myself to make something new every month is proving to be pretty challenging, but also fun. I went into this…
Monetize Your Side Project: Ways To Get Paid
When you start building a side project, it is hard to resist daydreaming of one day gaining millions of users and, as a result, earning millions of dollars. Unfortunately, most developers don't know where to begin when thinking about charging…
Ship It. Even If It Sucks.
I love starting things. Right now I have 13 unpublished drafts for blog articles on various topics. I am the proud owner of thirty-nine domains. Six of them are in use. Ideas are great. I've got hundreds of them. Working…
Why I Over Explain Things
Hi. My name is Matt & I am a constant over explainer.
Code Clarity: Thinking About Code as Questions & Answers
Anyone can write code a computer can understand. It takes an expert to write code a human can understand. In this post we are going to look at an example of how to add clarity to our code by thinking about our logic as a set of questions & answers.
Private Methods: What Do You Have To Hide?
We constantly refactoring & improving code bases but, sometimes we can be lukewarm about what we are doing. Enter the private method: Codebase Ruiner.