Five for Friday – April 10, 2020

It’s the Friday the 13th version of FfF! New to me is this collection of culture decks – public slide decks describing the culture of several companies. A reminder that ‘Tis the Season for Technical Debt This is a year old, but I just found this series of articles from Steve Rubin on interviewing. Start…

As I approach the half-century mark of existence, I’ve been reflecting on how I’ve ended up where I am…so excuse me while I ramble out loud. Seriously, how did a music major end up as a high level software engineer at a company like Microsoft? I have interviewed hundreds of people for Microsoft, who, on…

Last week I wrote about test design and imagined an app where I thought automation could help with testing. I had some time this morning, so I went ahead and made the application. When you press the “Roll!” button, the app generates 5 random numbers between 0 & 9 (inclusive), and sums the numbers in…

A few days ago, I began a verbal exploration of testers who code and coders who test. That post provides some context for today’s continuation, so if you have a moment, go ahead and check it out. OK – I know you didn’t read it (or you read it already), so I’ll give you the…

Well, that First is that I love it when people share music with me. One of my team members introduced me to mouse on the keys, and I am enjoying their music so far. One of my favorites is ‘spectres de mouse‘ (Spotify link) The New York Times built a nice visualization of election results – quick and simple…

We all made it through another week. Here’s some stuff for you to check out. Charity Majors is awesome – and so is her latest blog post advice to managers. Camille Fournier (author of The Manager’s Path) also had a great post this week on Boring Plans. Corey Quinn wrote a fascinating post on compensation…