In my daily work, I often need to write data pipelines to produce metrics, create datasets for machine learning models, or just clean up logs. I had usually done testing the traditional way, verifying my code does what I expect by checking for normal and edge cases I could think of. But over the past couple of months, I started using property based testing, and I feel like my code quality has improved dramatically. ... Read more

The first programming language I learned was Pascal. I was in my math class in secondary school, and my teacher told us about a programming competition that was held every year between schools. At that point, I everything I knew about programming was a pure construct of my imagination. I knew that you were suppose to type something into a machine and it would do things. But I was into computer hardware at the time, so I figured why not. ... Read more