Patrick Drechsler
drechsler.bsky.social
Patrick Drechsler
@drechsler.bsky.social
TDD-, FP-, DDD-, *Fanboy

more active on mastodon:
https://floss.social/@drechsler
May = full of dev conf fun! 🇩🇪
🎯 #DigitalCraftsDay – Approval Testing
🎯 #ADCkonf – Property-Based Testing
🎯 #dotnetdayfranken – Approval Testing
🎯 Magdeburg Dev Days – Mutation Testing + Linux CLI

Slides 👉 draptik.github.io/talks/
draptik
mostly tech stuff
draptik.github.io
May 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
curious: how do others use the words "update" vs "upgrade" in git commit messages?

Example:

"chore: update dependencies"

vs

"chore: upgrade dependencies"

Summary of AI results:

1. Use "update" when:

- minor changes
- Applying regular maintenance changes

2. Use "upgrade" when:

- new major
May 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
thanks to all participants of my session on #propertybasedtesting at the Advanced Developer Conference (ADC) in Regensburg!

You can find the presentation here:

draptik.github.io/2025-05-adc-...
draptik.github.io
May 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#kitty's cursor_trail feature

so, I tried this for a couple of weeks, and the feature is great! easy to visually follow the cursor position (think pair programming, or #neovim, #tmux, etc).

Here is an animation from the original pull request:
github.com/kovidgoyal/k...

#cli
#linux
Feature suggestion: Animated cursor · Issue #2460 · kovidgoyal/kitty
https://github.com/Kethku/neovide/blob/master/assets/AnimatedCursor.gif The above gif is from a neovim front-end and demonstrates an animated cursor. Using it is actually quite a joy, and useful be...
github.com
December 8, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Thanks to all attendees of my evening session on #mutationtesting w/ #strykerNet at this year's .NET-Developers Conference #DDC in Cologne!
You can find the presentation here:
👉 draptik.github.io/2024-11-ddc-...
#dotNet
Wir testen. Aber testen wir auch gut genug? - Slidev
## Mutation testing\n
draptik.github.io
November 27, 2024 at 12:10 AM
so what are the current tools for cross-posting to #mastodon #bluesky #linkedin ?
November 13, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Thanks to all attendees of my talk about 'Revitalizing Legacy Code using Approval Testing': We had a great interactive session and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!
You can find the slides and the code examples on GitHub:
👉 draptik.github.io/2024-4-mathe...
#Verify #ApprovalTesting
April 13, 2024 at 12:49 AM
thanks to all attendees of my session on 'modern linux cli tools' at #codedays!

You can find my slides here:
👉 draptik.github.io/2024-01-code...
draptik.github.io
February 2, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Ping Amitai
October 29, 2023 at 12:50 AM