Five for Friday – April 10, 2020

ByAlan Page

I don’t know what day it is anymore. Fortunately I live by my calendar and a list of reminders in Todoist, so I know I should be posting interesting things I found on the internet.

  • Ministry of Testing is doing a TestBash Home event. It’s 24 hours of presentations and discussions that looks like it’s going to be awesome. Check it out
  • I stumbled by this article on Asynchronous Communication for Teams that I really liked
  • This article on dealing with incidents (Help, the Site is Down) is filled with great advice.
  • A little work involved, but in the category of things you didn’t know you needed, is this article telling you how to Browse YouTube Using Slack Commands
  • Like many others, I binged Tiger King on Netflix – an odd mix of documentary and a view into batshit crazy people that was both cringe-worthy and addicting.
    I’m glad it’s over.

Similar Posts

  • Year End Clearance

    ByAlan Page

    I’m on vacation, and this post is auto-generated. See, you can trust automation sometimes… Another year gone by, and another few dozen posts. Here are the top viewed posts of the last year (note – not all of these were written last year – this is just what people read the most last year). In…

  • Intelligence and Insight

    ByAlan Page

    I have an after-work event tonight, and rather than leave my car in the garage overnight, I ran to work. Since I’ve moved to downtown Bellevue, I’ve done this a few times – and given that I’m running another half-marathon in 10 days, it was a great opportunity for a long training run before I…

  • |

    Five for Friday – October 27

    ByAlan Page

    Five things floating through my head this week. I’ve referred to a line from Leadership on the Line (Heifetz / Linsky) more than once this week (and hundreds of times over the years), but worth sharing again here. “Leadership is disappointing people at a level they can absorb”. I’ve frequently used “… at a level they can tolerate“,…

  • <sigh> Automation…again

    ByAlan Page

    I think this is the first time I’ve blogged about automation since writing…or, to be fair, compiling The A Word. But yet again, I see questions among testers about the value of automation and whether it will replace testers, etc.. For example, this post from Josh Grant asks whether there are similarities between automated trucking…

  • What’s Your Super Power?

    ByAlan Page

    When I’m interviewing experienced candidates (for any software role), one question I frequently ask is, “What’s your super power?” I like hearing answers like, “I can learn new things really quickly”, or “I’ve found over 1000 security bugs”, or even “I’m a batch file (or other language) wizard”. Recognizing super (or special) powers in yourself…

One Comment

  1. Who would have guessed that people who privately own Tigers, are crazy? I guess it took someone who dressed crazy to highlight the craziness…? LOL

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.