Conferences – again!

It’s been a busy month. (I blame Xbox One for monopolizing my time), and I’m way overdue for what I meant to be a “day-after” follow up for my last post. If you didn’t read it (or if it’s been so long you’ve forgotten), here’s the summary and where we left off: “Automation” is an…

Well – today has been a shitty day. Thanks to a set of unqualified judges forming opinions based on their fantasies instead of policy, abortion is illegal in 26 states. This will undoubtedly result in health issues and death for many women, and cause economic burden in states who already have high levels of poverty….

I frequently go days at work without writing code. On many days, I do “typical” test activities (seeing what works, what doesn’t work, etc.) Some days I’m debugging all day. Other days, I’m sifting through the perl and batch scripts that bolt our build process together. On other days, I’m managing projects, tweaking excel, or…

The cat’s out of the bag – I’m popping out of my no-conference bubble, and making an appearance at a testing conference (STAR West in October). The theme of the conference is “Be a Testing Rock star”, and while I think that theme begs for an appearance from Michael Larsen, I’ll do my best to…

I had one of those meditative weekends, where between solving Advent of Code challenges, seeing the new Star Wars movie, and cleaning my home office, some ideas (sort of) merged in my head. One part of the recipe was yet-another-discussion on twitter over the weekend (over) reacting to the Test is Dead theme that came…

The US election is 4 days away. If you haven’t already voted – make a plan. Here’s some new (to me) stuff this week. I didn’t have a TV until last week. I took a chance on a Hisense H9 series, and so far, it’s been a dream. I’m currently reading Seeking SRE. I like…