How do you tighten your feedback loop?
How do you tighten your feedback loop?
I've noticed that my productivity is directly correlated with the size of the feedback loop. Even little things like inline errors or a particular keybinding that you use can mean a big difference, I feel! Please feel free to share anything—I'd love to hear about your environments!
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One thing I’ve done is to think a bit more about how to verify the behaviour of individual components without running the entire thing end-to-end. From there, there is a wealth of tooling to run things automatically for me - unit tests, shell scripts, CI/CD pipelines - so I get feedback as quickly as I can think (which isn’t so fast actually!).
(Almost to embarrassed to ask a question s as simple as this, but here we go...)
I hear a lot about shell scripts and how useful they are, but my expertise in Bash is pretty much limited—know I can pipe cat into vim, basic things like that—could you share some examples of what you can automate with shell scripts that you personally use often?