Five for Friday – March 29, 2019

I’m back home and back at work…and slowly getting used to both. It was by far the best (and longest) vacation I’ve had (or will probably ever have). While it’s good to be home, it’s a bit weird getting used to working again after so much time off (just over 8 weeks in total). But…

Another week – another five things I found interesting. Eighteen+ months into the pandemic, and I finally got a new desk. It’s the Kana model from Flexispot, and it is wonderful so far. Because I’m now standing much more when I work, I was able to dig out my Ergodriven standing mat out of the…

I’m not sure if this is a musician’s perspective of learning or something more universal, but it’s something that I think about often. When learning, there’s value in training, lessons, reading, and other learning opportunities, but there’s much more value (IMO) in practice – but I’m not sure if that’s how everyone sees it (or…

Leave it to Adam Goucher to beat me to the punch line. When I proposed that breaking down your definition of quality to a manageable set of ilities is a reasonable method for improving customer perceived quality, the logical next step is to try and find out which of the ilities you need to care…

In the absence of information, people will make stuff up. This is a phrase I share often with mentees and colleagues – most often when talking about progress on a project they’re working on. I once saw a colleague take a lot of heat for a project he was leading – he was making great…

Back for another week of random stuff I found on the internet. The State of Testing Report is out – lots of interesting insights and info. Maaret Pyhäjärvi has a short, but nice blog on learning from failure that’s worth reading Not sure who else is using Sourcgraph (or why I haven’t heard of it…