{"id":1684,"date":"2020-01-17T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2020-01-25T00:51:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T08:51:30","slug":"five-for-friday-january-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-january-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; January 17, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It&#8217;s that time of year again. It&#8217;s time for folks to fill out the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/qablog.practitest.com\/state-of-testing\/\">State of Testing Survey<\/a>. Remember that testing is an activity, and not necessarily a role, so if you&#8217;re involved in software, you probably have valuable input.<\/li><li> I&#8217;m a bit of a Michael Lopp (Rands) fanboy &#8211; Managing Humans remains one of my favorite books on management. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welcometothejungle.com\/en\/articles\/btc-michael-lopp-interview-management\">Here&#8217;s an interview<\/a> with him posted this week.<\/li><li>I&#8217;m not <em>really<\/em> a remote worker, but I sometimes end up working from home four days a week. Although this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesavvy.com\/656\/how-to-work-from-home-and-actually-get-stuff-done\/\">How to work from home and actually get stuff done<\/a> is a few years old, I find it quite applicable.<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve been taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/brave.com\/\">Brave browser<\/a> for a spin for the past week &#8211; so far, I&#8217;ve been <em>mostly<\/em> impressed. There are some issues with emoji display on my  Linux browser, but the speed is noticeable on many sites. It&#8217;s chromium based &#8211; which means that most Chrome plugins work perfectly as well.<\/li><li>Like most people who travel a bit, I occasionally run into networks that are difficult to connect to &#8211; usually because the redirect is puking (that&#8217;s a technical term). Sometimes I get around this by attempting to directly connect to the access points IP address, but <a href=\"http:\/\/neverssl.com\">NeverSSL<\/a> is pretty handy too. It allows connections over the most basic vanilla http possible (thus bypassing a lot of redirects that the browser or network may otherwise attempt).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. It&#8217;s time for folks to fill out the annual State of Testing Survey. Remember that testing is an activity, and not necessarily a role, so if you&#8217;re involved in software, you probably have valuable input. I&#8217;m a bit of a Michael Lopp (Rands) fanboy &#8211; Managing Humans remains one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}