Five for Friday – September 18, 2020

Back again with interesting – but potentially useless links I found valuable this week It’s ~6 weeks away, but now is good enough time as any to let you know that I’m speaking at Testing Festival in May It’s a bit of a long read, but this article on persuading the unpersuadable is full of…

It’s a sort-of-sunny day in the Pacific northwest, and I have the day off from work (which probably means I’m cleaning the garage today. Here are some links to ponder from my recent browser history. Camille Fournier posted a wonderful (and incomplete) list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding Lisi Hocke wrote a wonderful…

We’re already a third of the way through 2021. It’s still a wild world, but I’m signed up to get my first vaccine dose on Monday, so that light at the end of the tunnel is looking just a little bit brighter. Here’s some stuff from my world this week. I wrote another article for…

I mentioned this on twitter, but it’s worth calling out here directly as well. I will be talking about modern testing (and giving a workshop on web testing tools) at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference in early October, 2018 (full details on the PNSQC site). This isn’t my first time to PNSQC – I…

Calendar math says I’m a few hours into the 39th day since I started at Unity. I’m still well within the honeymoon window, but my optimism and excitement about working here continue to grow. It’s just a pretty damn cool place to work. I’ve met most of my team face to face, and will spend more…

If you read my last post (sorry, no link – I’m not ready to try that yet), you’ll know that I’m attempting to use my Microsoft surface device as my only electronic device on my trip to Amsterdam for Eurostar. So far, it’s working ok. The cover/keyboard works better than I though tit would – although…