Rationale When working in a React application, one pain point that often comes up is Redux. People say that as soon as an application uses it, things quickly get overrun with boilerplate and "wiring" code that ultimately clogs your codebase more than it helps it. This isn't something inherent to Redux but more something to do with the best practices associated with it, and with people misusing th...

Il est difficile d'aborder Jacob's Ladder de nos jours sans faire le lien avec l'univers torturé qu'il a engendré au travers de Silent Hill. Décrivant les tourments d'un postier à la sortie du Vietnam, chaque minute du film Jacob descend un peu plus profondément dans une réalité altérée où d'abstraites créatures semblent le pourchasser. Le scénario semble basique, et pourtant ce qu'il recèle et i...

While snapshot testing has been around for a while in the form of visual snapshots (used in visual regression testing), it's clear that the introduction of textual snapshots in Jest a few years ago had a big impact on testing, not only in Javascript but in other languages as well. But looking back on what it brought me a few years later I feel rather failed by snapshots. And while most of the blam...