Madness, Math and (half) Marathons – and Medium!

If you can believe it, it’s been 4 months since I left the big M. I miss a lot of people there, but I can’t say I’ve missed working there. Sure, I’m still in the honeymoon phase here at Unity – but so far, it’s been fun, challenging, and most of all, just plain refreshing….

A month or two back, Amazon began sharing BookScan information with authors. I can now see  how many copies of How We Test Software at Microsoft are selling (US only, and Nielsen BookScan only tracks the large-ish book sellers) – but it’s still sort of cool. I can’t help but wonder who in Houston bought…

Back for another week of random links and interesting articles from the internet. For the ‘murican readers here, the US Vaccine Tracker is a nice look at vaccine rates across a variety of demographics. A great article on metrics that don’t suck from Greg Paciga Just this week, I was in a conversation about automating…

It’s the beginning of a 4-day weekend – Now that the weather is more manageable in the Seattle area,I’ll probably go on a hike or two this weekend. The Hike Finder Map from wta.org is a great way to discover new trails. The TestBash Home 2021 talks are up (including mine), on the “future” of…

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….

Hi again everyone – here are a few links I found this week that I like. I’m reading Unleashed, by Francis Frei and Anne Morriss and enjoying it a lot as it has some good advice on leadership This is a great article on best practices on post-mortems and incident review. Speaking of incidents –…