@abyteortwo
Ever A. Olano
@abyteortwo
Seasoned Software Engineer, Husband, and Father of Two
California, USJoined January 2024
About
Inspired by a computer that printed "Hello, Ever" on the monitor at a science field trip.
Fascinated by Basic in high school, then Turbo Pascal in college for starters.
The rest is history.
And yes, that's the answer to "How do you say you're seasoned without saying you're seasoned?"
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... sharing through my blog what I've learned so far and what I have yet to learn. Check it out, and have a byte, or two.
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Github Copilot and the DRY Principle
Feb 10, 2024 · 2 min read · The answer is unfortunately the latter. I recently stumbled upon this article that talks about a study that found a correlation between Copilot-generated code and code churn. A lot of code is being reverted or updated within two weeks of their initia...
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Catching Exceptions in Unit Tests
Feb 6, 2024 · 3 min read · This was quite serendipitous as I was just about to start looking for a blog topic that started with the letter "C". It just fell on my lap today while reviewing someone else's pull request, particularly their unit tests. This is specifically about J...
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Terseness in Boolean Expressions
Feb 3, 2024 · 2 min read · Have you seen or written code like this? while (isAdvanced == true && isPremium() == false) { ... } Or this? if (isAdvanced) then { return true; } return false; Or this? return isAdvanced ? true : false; How about this? boolean isBasicUser = i...
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Authentication vs. Authorization
Jan 31, 2024 · 2 min read · First off, welcome to my first ever post. Hooray! I'd like to go through the letters of the English alphabet with each of my posts and naturally, we start with "A". And I got not one, but two of them for ya. Double hooray! If you're just starting, th...
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