Five for Friday – June 16, 2023

I’m continuing to try and enjoy summer here while it lasts – before it gets too hot. Summer in the pacific northwest is why we put up with the gray and wet for the other 11 months of the year. Anyway – here’s some stuff I read or found this week that you may find interesting.

  • After years of disappearing into the woods and returning to civilization “when I get there”, I finally bought a GPS Tracker – a Garmin In Reach Mini. It can track my location on a map, and let me send text messages or an SOS if needed. It also gives me a little more confidence to take less maintained trails and still find my way.
  • My Saturday angryweasel.substack.com blog post was about using AI / Chat GPT in testing. Jason Arbon wrote a wonderful post and highly relatable post on the subject. Counterfeit Philosophers in Testing
  • I understand that businesses want to make money. What I don’t understand is why businesses create pricing that forces people to not use their product. I have many examples, but the most relevant is Reddit – who decided to charge a ridiculous amount of money to access their API – and then have the site fail when communities did exactly what they said they’d do. smh
  • I just binged watched all four seasons of Barry. I love dark humor, and Bill Hader is just fantastic in this show. It may not be for everyone, but I loved it.
  • Last but not least – Monday is Juneteenth in the U.S. I’ve been taking some time this week to read more about the holiday, and enjoyed this HBR article on How Your Organization Can Recognize Juneteenth

That’s it for this week. For those of you who double dip in FfF and substack, my post will be late this week, as I’m heading out for my first (of several) backpacking trips of the year after work this afternoon. See you all next week.

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