Five for Friday – March 2, 2018

Twenty-twelve has been a heck of a year so far. The day job has been keeping me swamped, but the work, the challenges, and the scope feel perfect – I’m having a great time, and I couldn’t ask for anything more in a job. Historically, most of my blog posts come from experiences or inspiration…

I am going to take the rest of the year off from bullet points (and computers as much as I can) while I catch up on rest and other odds and ends. That said, here’s the final five for 2018. A huge, HUGE shoutout to heytaco – they have a fun “reward” system for slack…

It’s yet another not-so-great week for America. I have so much to say that I think it’s better to say none of it. Here are five of the things I found to distract myself this week. First, this article on 3 Strategies for Leading Through Difficult Times (tl;dr – check your ego, have courage, and…

Here are five possibly interesting articles I read this week. Other than my Xbox, the only Microsoft product I still use regularly is VS Code. While the “super secret” tips in this article aren’t necessarily that secret, they are all really cool and valuable. In a similar vein, since my only console windows are Bash…

To Automate, or not to Automate, that is the question that confuses testers around the world. One tester may say, "I automate everything, I am a test automation ninja!". Another tester may say, "I do not automate, if I automate I fail to engage my brain properly in the testing effort!". Another may say, “I…

For testers, being skeptical is generally a good thing. When someone says, “Our application doesn’t have any reliability errors”, I, for one, am skeptical. I’ll poke and prod and (usually) find something they haven’t thought about. There’s power in skepticism. Last year, I led a team of testers in performing code reviews of production code….