Once again – here are a few things to share from my week. I read Malcom Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers this week – it was good, but even better than I expected. As usual with a Gladwell book, a lot of insights and great story telling The latest State of Devops report is out. I…
Yet another busy week in the world, but I still found a few cool things to share. I started Measure What Matters a year ago, but have been reading it regularly recently – it’s settling well with me and I’m learning a lot. I’m late to the party, but I’m watching The Queen’s Gambit on…
Between crying and lying, it’s been an interesting week. Here are a few things I liked. The next Online Testing Conference is coming up December 1-3 (one of those days is my birthday!) Yet another great post from Lisa Crispin – this time on shifting everywhere I worked on Windows compatibility…geez, maybe 25 years ago…
You may have noticed that there was an election in the US this week. Because you (or your friends and relatives) may need it – here’s the wikipedia article explaining our (U.S.) archaic process for electing presidents. Like a lot of people, I don’t have cable, and was a bit worried about watching live news…
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…
Here’s some stuff I liked this week. I’m going to prepare a talk for TestFlix – you should too. Speaking of presentations, I am using Pitch for my Testflix presentation – I’m not doing a lot with it, but it seems to work well Once upon a time, I wrote the daylight saving time detection…
Not sure how it is where you live, but the weather is definitely cooling off here. Some stuff I found interesting this week is below. Angela Riggs has a nicely written article reflecting on the last days of her job at Instrument This is a really cool article on Adapting Maslow’s Hierarchy for a Remote…
Not sure if it’s possible to find anything more interesting than Pence’s fly this week, but I tried. Mike Cohn wrote (yet another) article I enjoyed – this week’s topic asks, Are We Really Bat at Estimating? This twitter thread had some unsurprising thoughts (with some research) on the future of remote work. It’s now…
This year has been a great ten years. Here’s some stuff to share. Probably a repeat from a few years ago, but this site (and ABTesting) are hosted by chemicloud (affiliate link). Nearly 3 years into using them for hosting, and they haven’t dropped a step. I’ve never waited more than 5 minutes for support.I’ve…
49 days until the US Presidential election. If you’re reading this in the US, make sure you’re registered – and double check your registration frequently. You can register, and confirm that you’re registered on vote.org I guess code for Windows XP leaked somewhere on the internet. I doubt it’s helpful (or interesting) given that XP…
So. Much. Stuff. Going. On. Here are some things I found interesting and exciting over the last week. I finally got around to reading Michael Lopp’s The Art of Leadership: Small Things Done Well, and as expected, it’s filled with great ideas and fantastic advice. I’ve pointed to the WTF just happened today website in…
I had fun for a bit this week playing with keyvalues.com – you select the values you care about, and it tries to match you with a company. I haven’t called out a Jeff Nyman blog post in a while, but I enjoyed his article on shapes of tests Something important for the near future…
How is it September already? Here are a few things I want to share from my stumbles around the web this week. Amazon decided this week that I can’t back up my Synology NAS to amazon drive anymore. In related news, I have canceled my Amazon drive service while I find a new offsite backup….
Here are some links I found interesting this week. I find Jim Gaffigan reasonably funny, but he’s gained additional respect from me this week when he lost it over Trump Steve Denning has thoughts on what good agile looks like Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything looks like it will be a really nice addition to the…
My calendar has been…exploding lately (all good meetings – just re-org aftermath). I’ve been using reclaim.ai to keep an eye on meeting trends and to automatically block out 30-60 minutes every afternoon in order to make sure I don’t get too far behind. Here’s a nice article asking, Do I need Kubernetes Old article, but…
More random stuff I enjoyed this interview with Lee Atchison – particularly check out his answer regarding DevOps Joel Montvelisky wrote a nice article on Focusing More on Quality and Less on Testing Mike Cohn is one of my heroes – and he’s giving a free webinar on Tuesday So…Microsoft has an “open source hub”…
Once again, here’s a random sampling of the internet I found interesting this week. Not something a lot of people will like, but I agree with the authors here – we need another lockdown. Google wrote a nice blog on code coverage Kubecon Europe is starting on August 17th. Of course it’s virtual (although not…
I’m excited to experiment with Github Chaos Actions – I came across them last weekend in this article. Yes, I think I will link to yet-another Michael Lopp blog post. This time it’s a post about your mid-year leadership checkin. This post on the dystopian world of software interviews is on the money. This is…
As I write this, feds are descending on our poor liberal city to help protect us from coffee overdoses and hacky-sack eye injuries. We’ll see how the weekend goes. Here’s some stuff to read if we survive. John Cutler wrote a nice follow up to a three-year-old post – 12 Signs You’re Working in a…
Here’s some interesting stuff I found this week. I always love when Cindy Sridharan posts – this one is no exception.. Post-Commit Reviews This is a great article on myths (or realities) of time management Long time readers know that I ski for a week in Whistler every year – I hope to someday take…