Software Development on Don Figuerres

Tmux Settings

Tue, 28 May 2024 22:40:00 +0800

Saving here a copy of tmux settings so it’s easy to set it up in a new machine.

set -g mouse on
# vi keybindings
set-window-option -g mode-keys vi
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi v send -X begin-selection
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi V send -X select-line
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi y send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel 'xclip -in -selection clipboard'
# required by neovim checkhealth
set -g default-terminal "tmux-256color"
set-option -sa terminal-features ',xterm-256color:RGB'
set-option -sg escape-time 10
set-option -g focus-events on

VS Code Python Test Debugging Does Not Hit Breakpoint

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0800

I had this problem in Python development environment wherein a breakpoint is not hit while trying to debug tests. It turns out that this is a known issue and a work around is available via the launch.json file.

{
 "version": "0.2.0",
 "configurations": [
 {
 "name": "Debug Tests",
 "type": "python",
 "request": "launch",
 "purpose": [
 "debug-test"
 ],
 "console": "integratedTerminal",
 "justMyCode": false,
 "env": {
 "PYTEST_ADDOPTS": "--no-cov"
 }
 }
 ]
}

Below is the explanation form Microsoft.

Common Tools for Software Development

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 23:34:00 +0800

List of tools that I’ve used throughout my development career that you might find useful too. I use this list when setting up a new VM or workstation.

Browser

Google Chrome
- It’s most people’s default browser although Edge has a better performance in Windows.
Brave Browser
- I use this personally for browsing.
- It has a lot of default privacy features.
- Can be used to test if a website will continue to function if all the security and privacy features are enabled.
Firfox
- Has cool privacy features and containerization feature.

Package Manager

Homebrew
- Homebrew initially started as a MacOS package manager but is now available for Linux distros. It’s a good package manager if you want to always have the latest version of the software you need. Otherwise, it’s hard to keep older versions as the philosophy of Homebrew is to only maintain the latest versions.

Editor

VSCode

Java Performance Testing Using Zerocode

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 23:10:00 +0800

In one of my previous projects, I had to add a performance testing suite for our Java APIs to measure the performance gain in the performance improvement that I was working on.

After some research, I found that Zerocode is able to fulfill our needs. Their GitHub Repo also includes an extensive documentation which made the process much easier for me.

I found that you can reuse your existing JUnit tests as performance tests using the LoadWith annotation.