I just started working with Laravel. I need to rewrite a whole system I made some years ago, using Laravel 4 as base framework. In my old system, I used to have a constant.php file with some consta...

I am coming from the world of SPA's and REST/GraphQl API's. Now I am building personal project with Next.js library for SSR(Server Side Rendered) React App. Since I used Redux in all of my single p...

The signature of modifyIORef is straightforward enough: modifyIORef :: IORef a -> (a -> a) -> IO () Unfortunately, this is not thread safe. There is an alternative that adresses this is...

Question: I need guidance on how to write a mechanism in Angular to set the "Look and Feel" of components globally in my application. Please note, I'm trying to learn @ngrx/platform and I thought ...

I'm trying to determine if Python's mock.patch (unittest.mock.patch in Py3) context manager mutates global state, i.e., if it is thread-safe. For instance: let's imagine one thread patches functio...

So, I was reading the Google testing blog, and it says that global state is bad and makes it hard to write tests. I believe it--my code is difficult to test right now. So how do I avoid global stat...

I'm dismayed. OK, so this was probably the most fun Perl bug I've ever found. Even today I'm learning new stuff about Perl. Essentially, the flip-flop operator .. which returns false until the left...

Please note: by a "pure" function, I don't mean "pure virtual" I'm referring to this If a function "reads" some global state, does that automatically render it impure? or does it depend on other f...