Dependency Dangers | Coder Radio 348

11 March 2019
Tags: api shutdown automation aws battery life breaking change brendan gregg build server chrome ci clojure clojurescript cloud9 code signing code-server coder radio darter pro dependencies developer podcast ebpf elementary os fastlane firefox functional programming generative testing gitlab google google plus google+ haskell idempotent integration tests ios laptop review macos oauth omniauth outage pop!_os quickcheck rails react ruby safari scale standards state system76 testing ui tests unit tests vscode wasm web assembly
Mike has salvaged a success story from the dumpster fire of the Google+ shutdown, and Wes shares his grief about brittle and repetitive unit tests.
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