Glad you found this helpful. Regarding the TDD stuff, I went through the same difficulties as you described when I was starting out too. I even had that epiphan

Glad you found this helpful. Regarding the TDD stuff, I went through the same difficulties as you described when I was starting out too. I even had that epiphany stage where I didn't write tests for something and ended up regretting it later. I have found that over time I've gotten much more efficient writing the tests and don't necessarily write them for everything, only the things that experience now tells me are important. Also, I give myself permission to "spike out" those features I'm still trying to figure out how they should work and not write any tests for them as I figure them out. After I've got it figured out I'll do a "git stash" (usually never returned to) and start over writing the feature I now understand using TDD.