Hacker News: aslakhellesoy

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Google changes its search box"

aslakhellesoy — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:59:57 +0000

Dude it's Depeche Mode

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

aslakhellesoy — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:28:46 +0000

Shhh don’t let them know!

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

aslakhellesoy — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:26:40 +0000

FYI: DocuSign’s moat/USP is trust, not software.

DocuSign customers buy trust.

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Sqawk: A fusion of SQL and Awk: Applying SQL to text-based data files"

aslakhellesoy — Tue, 27 May 2025 07:53:24 +0000

I wonder how this compares to csvkit [1].

[1]: https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io"

aslakhellesoy — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:41:24 +0000

I’ve been using Mermerd [1] for years and never looked back. Simple, does one thing well.

It gets even better with elk layout - just prepend this frontmatter snippet to mermerd’s output:

    ---
    config:
      layout: elk
    ---

[1]: https://github.com/KarnerTh/mermerd

SpecFlow (Cucumber for .NET) has been forked

aslakhellesoy — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 22:10:38 +0000

Article URL: https://reqnroll.net/news/2024/02/from-specflow-to-reqnroll-why-and-how/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308487

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Show HN: Stacktape – Full power of AWS with Heroku-like experience"

aslakhellesoy — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:49:42 +0000

This sounds very similar to AWS CDK. How does it compare?

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "GraphQL is now available on Supabase"

aslakhellesoy — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:25:15 +0000

Excellent - thanks!

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "GraphQL is now available on Supabase"

aslakhellesoy — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:00:01 +0000

Excellent work!

Postgraphile uses a naming convention for postgres functions to extend the GraphQL schema [1].

Do you have any plans to support a similar mechanism in pg_graphql?

[1]: https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/functions/

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Launch HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Query any database via Postgres"

aslakhellesoy — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:48:45 +0000

Congratulations on the launch - this sounds interesting.

I'm currently using Postgraphile[0], which uses Postgres' introspection API to discover the schema structure.

Would this still work with Hydra?

[0] https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "The Stack Fallacy (2016)"

aslakhellesoy — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:22:36 +0000

This is exactly why I love Example Mapping.

https://cucumber.io/blog/bdd/example-mapping-introduction/

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Launch HN: MindsDB (YC W20) – Machine Learning Inside Your Database"

aslakhellesoy — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:17:26 +0000

Looks very interesting! Any plans to support DynamoDB/Scylla?

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Beyond the Code: Mining Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Tracker Systems"

aslakhellesoy — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:13:39 +0000

I created a tool (bumbailiff) that allows a team to accrue a limited amount of debt, for a limited period of time. Then it fails the build.

Read more about it here: https://cucumber.io/blog/bdd/todo-or-not-todo/

Cucumber Ltd Acquired by SmartBear

aslakhellesoy — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:02:19 +0000

Article URL: https://cucumber.io/blog/cucumber-acquired-by-smartbear/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20273335

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "Subsecond full-stack acceptance tests with Node.js"

aslakhellesoy — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:53:39 +0000

Browser-monkey is awesome, and for a real project I'd consider using it. I'd also use a virtual dom UI library like Vue, React, Hyperdom or similar.

For a teaching example I think it's essential to reduce the number of external libraries, or else it's too much to take in.

Subsecond full-stack acceptance tests with Node.js

aslakhellesoy — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:34:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/subsecondtdd/todo-subsecond

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456961

Points: 29

# Comments: 2

Don't use Git rebase

aslakhellesoy — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 08:23:02 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@fredrikmorken/why-you-should-stop-using-git-rebase-5552bee4fed1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15263575

Points: 137

# Comments: 85

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "The Software Engineering Rule of 3"

aslakhellesoy — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:16:12 +0000

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "TDD did not live up to expectations"

aslakhellesoy — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:56:09 +0000

You and I have very different opinions on the purpose of TDD. You're presuming it's a design technique - many do. For me, TDD is all about validating a design in a way that gives me faster and better feedback than if I were just coding. I design the code before I write the first test. In fact, my test is derived from the design.

First I sketch a rough implementation design on a napkin or whiteboard. I don't worry about making it perfect, just good enough to create an initial mental model, and perhaps discuss it with someone.

Then, I write a test to express how I would like to interact with a small area of an implementation of this design, typically by calling a function or method and expressing a desired outcome.

I use the feedback from the test to drive out some simple code that resembles the design I sketched. If at any point this becomes hard, I take that as a clue that my napkin design can be improved, so I go back and tweak it.

Then I start over again. This is a quick cycle, typically 10 minutes or so. I get constant feedback on my design as well as my implementation.

I don't design code with TDD. I design code exactly the same way people who don't to TDD do it. Through intuition and experience. This is a skill, not a process. I only write tests to validate my design (not my implementation). Of course, because they are tests, they automatically validate my code as well, but that is not why I am doing it. If I only cared about testing, I might as well write them last.

More often than not my designs are imperfect, but by doing TDD I always improve them significantly, with relatively little time and effort.

It's taken me 15 years to get decent at it, and I'm still learning new techniques and abandoning others. There are many tricks to be learned. I usually only TDD when I care about the design. Quite often I don't, and then I just hack. I'm simply making a choice between going very fast now or going reasonably fast in a year. I haven't found a way to do both yet.

New comment by aslakhellesoy in "What Test Engineers Do at Google: Building Test Infrastructure"

aslakhellesoy — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:06:46 +0000

I gave a presentation called Testable Software Architecture [1] a week ago with very similar recommendations to this article.

Decoupling is essential in order to have fast, maintainable tests that give you confidence to deploy continuously.

My two favourite techniques for this is a ports&adapters architecture where we plug in fake adapters for the majority of the tests. We then use contract tests to be confident that the fakes behave the same as the real services.

[1] https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/8567-testable-software-...