In 2016, I gave a talk at JEEConf in Kyiv about the Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) design pattern—which, in reality, is an anti-pattern we should avoid. Before that, I had written a blog post on the same issue and even devoted a section to it in Elegant Objects (Volume 2). The talk is still highly relevant—you can watch it on YouTube (in English).

GitHub Copilot sucks at code reviews. CodeRabbit nails them. We've used it across a few repos, and its pull request feedback is consistently useful. Plus, it’s almost free. The pull request on the picture is this one: objectionary/eo#4223.

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent ($39/month, launched on Monday) gives you what we all have been dreaming about: AI instead of lazy coders. Look at this pull request: yegor256/micromap#311 Seriously, I love this guy.

ps. With Copilot for Organizations ($19/seat), it's possible to configure coding standards and design principles to be respected by their AI agent.

update: It's useless. Unsubscribed.

I've just publicly released a simple collection of command-line scripts I've been using privately for years: gitted (written in Python and Bash). They automate four basic Git operations: 1) Start a branch; 2) Pull from upstream; 3) Commit; 4) Push. They also use ChatGPT to generate commit messages automatically. Now, when you want to start a branch, make a few commits, pull from the main repo, and push — you just run:

$ branch 42
$ commit
$ commit
$ pull
$ push

The scripts are designed to be smart enough to handle every situation, including edge cases and errors. Try them out — and if you run into problems, submit a bug report. There are still a few bugs and missing features, so contributions are very welcome!

It would be great to have a Telegram bot that takes a GitHub username and returns a summary of his/her/their annual contributions: number of issues, pull requests, lines of code, discussion messages, stars, forks, likes, dislikes, and so on. The bot should format everything nicely into a single Telegram message that a user can repost to their/her/his channel. Anyone else could do the same, helping to promote the bot, and impressing recruiters. Build it—I’ll use it.

This #book will teach you how to use unit testing in complex scenarios and also will explain why you need them: Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steven Freeman and Nat Pryce.

Программист, пришла пятница, бросай работу! Подключайся, на YouTube и VK (вопросы и ответы в прямом эфире на русском языке).

Записали интервью с Антоном Коробейниковым, активным участником LLVM сообщества и со-автором ряда широко цитируемых статей по биоинформатике. Смотрите на YouTube и VK (80 минут, with English and Russian subtitles).

IEEE agreed to sponsor the 5th International Conference on Code Quality (ICCQ), which we organize this year together with Ural Federal University. The topics of the event are: static and dynamic analysis, program verification, programming languages design, software bug detection, and software maintenance. The deadline for submissions is the 10th of August. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed by Scopus.

The event will be streamed live, on our YouTube channel (don't forget to subscribe!). Also, follow us on Twitter.

Take a look at this beauty: GitHub Copilot understands how Puzzle-Driven Development works. It tried to solve an existing puzzle and failed after a few attempts. Then, it replaced the puzzle with a new one, and we merged the half-baked solution. We should all learn from it.

What do you do to delete a book from a library? This:

library.removeBookById(42)

or this:

book = library.getBookById(42)
book.remove()

I just published a blog post trying to convince you that the second snippet is better: remove(42) vs. find(42).remove().

Бросай работу, программист! Подключайся к прямому эфиру с вопросами и ответами на YouTube и VK.

"Someone has broken into our home and stolen something" says OpenAI meaning that Meta has recruited their most valuable asset: slaves people. On the picture: Meta is buying new researchers.

Обсудил я с одним российским издательством возможность публикации Angry Tests на русском языке. Они согласились и перевести и опубликовать, однако, настаивают на публикации электронной версии тоже. Я пока отказываюсь, мотивируя тем, что книги свои никогда ранее электронными не делал — украдут ведь. Как посоветуете поступить?

Хватит кодить, пятница пришла! Подключайся через 10 минут к прямому эфиру с вопросами и ответами о нелегкой жизни программиста, на YouTube и VK.

Want to show your appreciation for my work? Today is the perfect day! The best gift you could give is a review of one of my books, posted on Amazon and/or GoodReads. Reviews help attract more readers and keep me motivated to write. Thanks in advance!

Every time I ask Claude Code or GitHub Copilot to write some code for me, they keep making very similar mistakes. Then, I have to provide a series of refinements for my request to make them understand that I, for example, don't appreciate "Manager" or "Controller" class names and my methods don't return NULL. I'm sick of repeating it over and over again. Here is a full-size prompt for them, to make them understand what elegant coding and testing truly are: yegor256/prompt. Feel free to reuse and contribute: we definitely need more rules into this list.

I put this text into the ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md (not always helps, by the way).

You don’t need to watch the entire interview with Peter Thiel—a multi-billionaire, PayPal co-founder, Elon Musk’s friend, and Trump supporter—but this thought is important. He seems to believe that the human race must not endure “as is.” Our future selves should be able not only to swap penis for vagina, but to replace our entire bodies—and perhaps even our souls—with something completely different. WTF?!