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Functions in Makefiles
When you wrote for the second time almost the same code and for the next time you started to copy & paste those code. That sounds like you should introduce a function. Functions in Makefile can shorten and clean things up and will be shown in the following…
Snippets for Visual Studio Code
Typing ‘for’, ‘if’, ‘main’… and hitting tab to expand a snippet can save some time.
Testing at CLI level
Testing can be tedious, testing can be tricky and testing can drive whole development… insane ;) But it is an important part of professional software development, but sometimes usually late at night only one line can make the trick. And staying with a shell - the environment devops used to use a lot it gets even more easier to write little one-line tests
Variables and Makefiles
Makefiles are long, they tend to be complex and we used to have a configure script which built them for us. Did you ever looked into such generated Makefile, maybe a file of one of a bigger project? For me they seem sometimes like one long regexp ;)
When to prefer output over breakpoints
When do you prefer raw console output over using a debugger and setting breakpoints?
Nudging build pipelines
When setting up a build pipeline with for example TravisCI or AppVeyor did the first build worked out?
Dealing with typos with typo-aliasing
Did you ever thought of alias typos in your shell alias file?
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