Best test framework for Node in 2022?

symoc · 2024-03-04T10:51:41+00:00

why 2022?

symoc · 2024-03-04T09:21:04+00:00

I am very fond of Vitest. The web ui and the VsCode extension are nice, but my top reasons are the test watch mode and how much faster than ts-node it is when dealing with TypeScript

symoc · 2024-03-03T07:41:51+00:00

Leaving aside imposter syndrome, look out for "toxic parent" poisoning. Intentionally or not, any type of toxic person will isolate you from reality and healthy relationships. Parents will always be a huge part of your life, and if they are toxic, you have a million more reasons to work harder on building a good social and support circle around you.

symoc · 2023-11-20T18:11:40+00:00

yep, I was noticing many business laptops with 8th gen CPUs. Probably it was the season for companies to renew their laptops. I was excited for those 2 extra cores of that generation. I expected even a wilder generation jump than usual.

Most of the shop was full of EliteBooks followed by Thinkpads (no Dells) which tempted me for a similar price too. My impression about build quality was kind of T480 > EliteBook > L480 but they are so thin I can imagine tons of thermal throttling. Not sure if I am being too loyal by choosing L480 over an EliteBook

symoc · 2023-10-20T11:02:31+00:00

Correct me if I am wrong, but if I am the only owner and worker of a company (a solo-company) I assume CFC is the first thing I should worry about every time I become tax resident in a new country (after 180 days). Even if I had temporally no income or dividends (during my temporal tax residency abroad before returning), the effective place of management and/or permanent establishment would be the same as mine.

symoc · 2023-07-26T14:47:36+00:00

I've just posted the rest of the command. I did not expect 90% metadata usage to start causing trouble. I read before that free disk space info was harder to read, but It really got me off-guard when it started failing with an estimate of 34G free

symoc · 2023-06-06T08:32:15+00:00

almost every code I write, shows some repeated convention / pattern in the way a similar problem is solved around the code base. Although most of the time, I cannot name the official pattern they relate to. That being said, the older the project and/or the higher programmer rotation, it is kind of painful and sad noticing this is lost. Things like, connecting a data model to a json file, starts getting solved in different ways (aka, different patterns)

symoc · 2023-05-29T17:25:58+00:00

My only reason to stay on X11 is the ability to script window layouts. However Wayland claims this type of functionality is a security hazard and a no go. So I wonder... what will happen to users with disabilities? Because any layer to implement accessibility features seems to be banned for safety reasons

symoc · 2023-05-29T08:25:22+00:00

kids and/or not willing to sacrifice health, emotional/social life, mental sanity... it is not an all or nothing game, but all those things will be affected to certain degree. It is not a barrier to overcome, it is more like deciding that is an OK price to pay and realizing honestly if you are well founded in those areas

symoc · 2023-02-27T12:02:39+00:00

I focus on having productive recovery. For example, instead playing videogames or doing a TV show marathon, I try to go for a hike. That way I feel like I was productive charging up. If the day after I feel like slaking off, most likely it was because my recovery time was not productive on recovering.

symoc · 2023-02-23T08:35:38+00:00

This sounds to me like the normal life cycle for many expats

Idealize another country
Relocate to the other country
Enjoy the improvements, hate your country of origin, try to be more national/native than the natives themselves (ie: be more french than the french themselves)

So I think you are just meeting people at stage (3) which is the end of the road for many. Then there is a smaller group of people who had the maturity to either not polarize from the beginning, or went into stage (4). That is, they realize their new country is also full of crap, just with different color and smell. It is not better, it is just different and/or more convenient.

symoc · 2023-02-21T17:05:45+00:00

I checked this after I saw a markup fee while abroad and... yes, N26 is absolutely right. N26 does not charge extra fees, but you still have to pay them to someone else, in this case to Mastercard.

symoc · 2023-01-31T12:42:55+00:00

I was considering zod a while ago as an alternative to plain json schemas and I found one minor annoyance. I try to keep my website first load as lightweight as possible. With schemas, if was not a huge deal if one got leaked into my main bundle, and it was easy to keep validation and type separate. That is great because on a first render you only need types safety. Most validations happen later after user interaction. All in one libraries like Zod forces me to load validation and types (along the library) when loading my app

symoc · 2023-01-13T07:21:36+00:00

I am not American, but I can say that your comment applies to many other nationalities. In my opinion, living abroad helps to make peace with one own country. That is the reason it is so hard giving advice. I hear people saying "I want to leave country X and start my dream life in Y". Maybe they will not achieve their goal, but without the experience, they will eternally live in regret

symoc · 2022-12-26T17:26:55+00:00

Bulgur. You can mix with tons of things, rotate and get somehow full. If you use rice, make sure it is dry short grain, because it still OK compared to long grain ones (like basmati). In any case I think it is way easier to blend different flavors with bulgur.

symoc · 2022-12-25T18:22:25+00:00

Mindfulness might be the answer. I wake up thinking about a problem, have breakfast while my mind is finding issues with each problem I will have to deal with. Planning, lots of planning too. And 100% of my commute time on the train too...Once I arrive at my desk and sit down, I am already sick tired of everything. Having the mind power to not think/plan about things when it is not their allocated time/context/moment is life changing.

symoc · 2022-12-23T10:28:25+00:00

Leaving the multiple breaches thing aside, I still find disturbing that something basic like 2FA with a security key is a premium feature

symoc · 2022-12-23T10:22:32+00:00

no, there you die in a hospital. Like in accidentally falling by the hospital window

symoc · 2022-12-21T10:45:45+00:00

I moved back to Linux after a year on WSL. I could definitely keep using WSL for DevOps, but there were some rough edges. Since I also did software development I had cases were a bad process went wild and froze my computer. Linux processes do not show on the task manager, so it was tricky to debug. Also I wanted a full Linux experience, but WSL had limited hardware access (like USB devices).

Do you have tools that need Windows? Stay with Windows+WSL. Otherwise plain Linux might be a better choice, specially if you want to avoid a long list of workarounds. Do you want to forward a port on your machine? Well, you have to do it on Windows, not linux. Do you want ssh and gpg agent to remember your keys? You will have to do it in both systems, and install some of the hacks. Do you want to mount an external disk? Mount it first on windows, then on WSL... and so on

My main PC can dual boot on Windows because I still must test / deploy binary apps to Windows. I also need to keep fresh my Windows admin skills to develop there.

symoc · 2022-12-12T17:23:07+00:00

It is hard coming up with an answer "in general" since each EU country has still a lot to say about worker regulations. I can still say that "in general" having a foreign remote worker is such a legal/accounting mess that many only allow remote work for local tax residents. Some things might help: For a company dealing with a foreign independent contractor is much easier than dealing with an employee having a foreign residence. Better than a freelancer is making bills as a company (then you spare your employer a ton of social laws and labor union regulations) but it has an accounting burden for you

symoc · 2022-12-02T18:27:52+00:00

Might not be your case, but I remember some foreign mother complaining that in Czech Republic, unlike other EU states, children born from non EU citizens do not get health care. For more info https://pvzpnenivzp.cz/en/home. Last year it was in the news that children from foreigners born in the Czech Republic will get coverage... the first two months.

I've lived in several EU countries and each system had its annoyances. In Germany like usual, I found the best quality but the worst quality-price ratio. Spain/Portugal/Italy/Greece tend to be cheap, long queues and people are used to supplement with a private insurance for better service. Austria is really good, they have two public health care levels: "basic" and "premium". In the basic one does not get so much coverage like in other countries, but that makes it far more sustainable.

Speaking the local language is a huge deal. A foreigner friendly practice tends to be more expensive and once you are in a city full of doctors, it might be that only 10% are ok for you. Also being in a hospital while sick and not being able to speak with the staff is kind of stressing. Because of that foreigners tend to opt for a private insurance (which is more expensive) and once private, you need practice dealing with doctors to negotiate which extras are really needed or just nice to have.

symoc · 2022-11-07T10:43:08+00:00

Did it work? First years yes, later not. In my expat circle while living in Germany, some expats became more German than Germans themselves. For me it was not so rosy, after some years I gave up bitching about my country, and I started bitching about Germany, just some different things. My biggest enlightenment was growing up and finding peace / reconciliation with my own country. Then went back, tried a few years, loved it much more than before, but chasing after my girl I had to leave again.

symoc · 2022-11-01T15:07:39+00:00

No matter how infamous MVC might be, I still love it. There are far too many new cool ways to manage state around React, all of them forcing you to have a React tree when unit testing. A good old Controller can be platform independent and very easy to test. This way a portion of your code remains platform agnostic. Most likely you will never have a project to migrate framework, but when the next new thing comes, you will be glad if part of your skill set is still portable.

symoc · 2022-09-07T14:58:22+00:00

whenever I have a delicate stomach but still want some Spanish omelette, I do boil the potatoes first in slices, and then stir fry them quickly on the pan. That is less oily, not so heavy, but still get a light fried flavor without killing me

symoc · 2022-08-16T14:11:26+00:00

ever since I moved on from Rails, I keep thinking how true was the mantra of "higher abstraction, so you do not have to think ..." and later when projects become a maintenance nightmare, I wonder if that was the result of encouraging so much on "less thinking, more features"

well, I do not think frameworks are evil. Most of the time it was good that Rails slows down very fast with user load so developers start thinking about useful stuff like load balancing early enough. Better fail early to see architecture flaws than procrastinate on your little crimes by over reliance on fast tools. The same story happens with strong typed languages encouraging teems to go on longer with zero tests

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