Jest is an amazing testing tool, but sometimes it throws up situations that confuse the hell out of me. Even worse is when I get confused by a problem / error message that I am 100% sure I have seen before, and solved, but it was on a different project and I can’t remember how … Read more
If you’re working with Cypress and Jest in the same project, TypeScript may throw errors that the standard Jest assertions are not valid types on the Assertion class. The error I get looks like this: Though in the IDE, even before running the tests, you will likely see something like this: This is a pretty … Read more
If you’re using Cypress with TypeScript in your project, it’s possible you may encounter the following error message when trying to run Cypress: And how this looks in Cypress itself: The issue is fairly easy to resolve. Simply delete all the conflicting configuration files. In my case I wanted to keep cypress.config.ts, and so remove … Read more
Every so often I have to start up a new project. Whether that’s a brand new / greenfield starting from scratch project, or joining an existing team and cloning an existing repo, one of the very first things I want to get working is Prettier. And more times than I can count, I have been … Read more
Yes. You absolutely can use a PC keyboard and a PC mouse on a Mac. With some caveats. I’m writing this post as I have work client right now that enforces use of their corporate Macbook Pro laptop. They provide the laptop, but won’t give me a Mac keyboard or mouse. Fortunately I have some … Read more
Yesterday I got hit with the double whammy. I tried to upgrade GitLab to v16.3.4 as part of their recent critical security release when I realised that the GitLab server was running version 15.x (I don’t remember which minor release), so first I would need to install 16.0.0, then get up to 16.3.4. This, it … Read more
This one cost me a whole bunch of time. Annoyingly I got a Docker version of Postgres 16 working on one machine, but a couple of days later I needed to update another and I hit this error: Somewhat fortunately for me, this time around, was that this was a test setup I have used … Read more
This is one of those problems that is … well, 🤦♂️ face palming-ly easy 🤦♀️ when you see how it’s done. But I confess to spending ages trying to figure this out. And Google wasn’t much help, either. OK, so the problem is this: You want to create a new docker-compose.yaml file in your C# … Read more
I got really lucky with the fix for this one, as it had me scratching my head for a good while. The gist of this is that I had two classes – a base class, and a sub class. I wanted to call a method with the same name on the sub class as exists … Read more
OK, not a true fix today. Not in the sense that I’d like, anyway. The gist of this is that I was trying to follow along with the JetBrains official Introduction to Coroutines and Channels tutorial. I cloned the GitHub repo, and opened in IntelliJ. When the dependencies were downloaded via Gradle, I got the … Read more