Didn't even realise this had happened, I always liked that pub! Classic Wolverhampton though, there is a history of 'Accidental' fires...
Other dev won't follow best practices, is this common?
Hello again, I'm in a situation where the one the senior devs on my team just isn't following best practices we laid out in our internal documentation, nor the generally agreed best practices for react; his code works mind you, but as a a team working on a client piece I'm not super comfortable with something so fragile being passed to the client.
He also doesn't like unit testing and only includes minimal smoke tests, often times he writes his components in ways that will break existing unit tests (there is a caveat that one of the components which is breaking is super fragile; he also led the creation of that one.) But then leaves me to fix it during PR approval.
It's weird because I literally went through most of the same training in company with him on best practices and TDD, but he just seems to ignore it.
I'm not super comfortable approving his work, but its functional and I don't want to hold up sprints,but I'm keenly aware that it could make things really messy whenbwe leave and the client begins to handle it on their own.
What are y'alls thoughts on this, is this sort of thing common?
It can certainly be expensive, depending on pricing and region, but if you look at some guides online for cheap ways to get into it there should be plenty of advice 😊i'ved certainly had lots of fun, drunk and chill games with friends for sure.
The current edition of 40k 10th edition has just released and all of the rules for all the factions and the main game can be downloaded for free so that should help you out. They also have a new game mode called combat patrol which is intended for new players and smaller games (so less investment) they have fixed unit selections but the rules are balanced for the smaller size so it can be very fun you can find the combat patrol rules on their website too.
Best bet would be to:
- pick a faction based on what's cool
- buy a combat patrol from an independent retailer (non-official shops usually have a slight discount). / if you would rather get paper minis first that works too
- assemble miniatures -try out the game use household items as terrain -if you like it, consider painting them
Yeah its a really nice system, combat has a nice flow to it and characters can feel pretty fragile, but also appropriately strong, we'll see with time how the progression holds up but it's been really fun so far, it really catches that Moorcock Sword and Sorcery Itch 👌
Yeah I've definitely had situations where its been useful, lime double checking safety critical algorithms or making sure I haven't missed anything obvious. But a lot of the time in my current team it just ends up feeling redundant, especially since it's a small dev team.
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Random Question: is it weird I don't like pair programming?
I've been working in programming for a few years and I think I really dislike Pair Programming; I understand how it is but I often find it mind-numbingly dull. I have a feeling I'm doing it wrong but I feel like as a part of a dev team tasks should be broken into discrete enough chunks that a single person can just blitz through the work... Maybe it's just me, what are y'all thoughts on the matter?
I've been in a bit of a break from running 5e DnD and have been blitzing through some other RPGs mostly as one shots to keep things fresh, honestly they've all been great in their own way:
- Black Sword Hack (Moorcock/Lieber OSR sword and sorcery)
- Black Hack (OSR)
- Mörk Borg (Doom Metal OSR)
- Mothership (Sci-Fi Horror)
- Mekton Zeta (Anime Mecha)
- Age of Sigmar: Soulbound (Heroic Fantasy)
I need to do something similar, I'm probably one of the minority who doesn't have an issue with the new citadel wash formula, but the when washing larger models it gets a bit impractical 😆 I need to bite the bullet and just make a 3l bottle of washes... 😆
Right? I was obsessed with the ship multiplayer mode 👌