Paul Shryock

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk hype. You see through it.

@jschauma@mstdn.social "I do not care about the details" -- that's spot on. And the same people will claim to have a strong attention to detail.

Next, they're going to tell me that React is being sold to Meta. Oh wait! Shit, it always was.

This is the first official release of Best, a new Bash automated testing framework focused on simplicity. https://codeberg.org/paulshryock/best/releases/tag/v0.1.0 Feedback is welcome! #Bash #TDD #TestDrivenDevelopment

What's up nerds, what are we building today? Remember it's Friday, so absolutely ship to production and tell management to take a hike.

@kboyd@phpc.social that's awesome! I love that you were able to write some simple assertions and get value right away by finding and fixing a bug. This would be obvious in PHP or JavaScript (with Pest and Jest), but I feel like with Bash we tend to just hope for the best (no pun intended).

@peach@phpc.social are you looking for a content management system or a compile and deploy method?

@LilPecan@mastodon.social +1000

@mhoye@cosocial.ca @felurx@troet.cafe yes, pretty sure a lot of these things are from your OEM on top of Android.

Every line of code is a potential point of failure.

@brzuchal@phpc.social love it

@demon6@metalhead.club I will! I actually just moved on from Emovere to Thaumaturgy II. So I'll check out Thaumaturgy I after that. Thanks for sharing.

@demon6@metalhead.club this is great!

@aesthr@wandering.shop that sounds like freedom.

@rolle@mementomori.social nice! Works like it says on the tin. Looking forward to a Homebrew tap.

At my last job, we had a Slack channel where many of us said "Good morning" every morning. I'm sure many people felt it was quaint or unnecessary, and many did not participate. But many of us did, and it was a small moment of joy. We'd leave emojis. Working remotely, we didn't see each other face to face, almost ever. Sure, we sat on Zoom meetings (way too often), and we communicated all throughout the day, but literal in-person interactions were rare. I went to the office about once a year.

It will also make argument validation a lot easier, so test execution is safer and less vulnerable to bad input.

My primary focus for this testing framework will continue to be "simplicity". The API must be simple. My plan is for it to be familiar if you're coming from Jest or Pest, which is of course why it's named "Best".

Lifecycle hooks are on the roadmap as well.

• beforeAll / beforeEach
• afterAll / afterEach

Lol. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-github-models-is-now-retired/

When I run git tag I want to include certain untracked files in the .zip file created by git archive.

How do I do it?

@ellisgl@phpc.social I guess it depends on which host is best for your use case(s). I don't really want to bother with self-hosting my own git server right now. I align well with Codeberg in what they're doing and who their services are for.

Best now has a website: https://www.bestbash.dev/

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social thank you for being the voice of reason in the room.

Not gonna take the bait.

So today I did something which resulted in my computer restarting and now Debian won't boot into Gnome; it's stuck at tty1 _and_ it seems to have no internet connection, even though it's hardwired. Quite a fun afternoon.

@masek@infosec.exchange last week I found myself in a position where I actually needed a VGA cable for an old laptop. I was about to buy one, then remembered "the drawer". There was the VGA cable, exactly what I needed.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116980326641813344 Keeping any code on GitHub is no longer an option. It's become a cesspool. Now is as good a day as any to finish that Codeberg migration, then delete my old GitHub repositories and delete my account. And hey, thanks to unemployment, I finally have the time to get this done.

@aardrian@toot.cafe lol, that's horrifying.

@masek@infosec.exchange this is correct, sane behavior.

Best v0.0.6 is now available to install via Homebrew!

Installation instructions: https://codeberg.org/paulshryock/best

Best is a Bash testing framework with a focus on simplicity, influenced by Jest and Pest.

• Familiar API
• Bash-native, no dependencies
• No ads, no tracking, no telemetry, no "AI"

If you try it out, let me know what you think. I'm still iterating on the API and it will likely change quite a bit. I will also be building out many more assertions similar to Jest and Pest.

And, one of the best parts of this change is that "expect" and "to_be" can take any arbitrary number of arguments, instead of expecting only one.

@kboyd@phpc.social what is/was the project going to be?

@miriamrobern@dice.camp always

@jasongorman@mstdn.business pivoting to AI?

As I add more expectations and modifiers like "not" or "and", I'm starting to hit the limits of this API and thinking I should split up tests into multiple function calls instead of a single function call followed by many parameters.

So instead of this tests where it's all on one line:

it "should compare two numbers" expect 1 to_be 1

It would become this, where each function call is separated by a semicolon or line:

it "should compare two numbers"; expect 1; to_be 1

Just released Best v0.1.7, and this includes a second expectation, to_throw.

So now these are the type of tests you can write:

it "should compare two values" expect 1 to_be 1

it "should throw" expect $([[ 1 == 2 ]]) to_throw

https://codeberg.org/paulshryock/best/releases/tag/v0.1.7

This will also make it easier to break up the test runner into three phases, which I think is pretty typical for any test runner:

1. Gather the test cases
2. Execute the tests
3. Format and display all of the output

I'm also planning to remove enddescribe, and instead follow describe with brackets.

So instead of this:

describe "number comparison"
  it "should compare numbers"; expect 1; to_be 1
enddescribe

It will become this:

describe "number comparison"
{
  it "should compare numbers"; expect 1; to_be 1
}

"Contributions welcome. No, not from you. Leave me alone. You can buy me a coffee." https://lake.computer/blog/help-wanted/

@acarson@babka.social ☕️☕️☕️

@ianh@phpc.social not a site worth visiting.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io and how many new ones does it introduce?

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social this is actually me.

I'm pleased with how the API is shaping up for this Bash testing framework I'm building. This will be v0.2.0, coming soon. #Bash #TestDrivenDevelopment #TDD

@jasongorman@mstdn.business I'm just teasing. Goofy world we live in.

@HamiltonsLive@universeodon.com no thanks.

@ramsey@phpc.social every time I've seen instructions about swiping in a particular direction, I've generally always understood it to mean the opposite of what it was likely intended to mean.