Bad news, everyone. Troy Hunt lied to us! …Kind of, sort of… Okay, maybe not really. This post is about the difficulties I had when moving my website from HTTP to HTTPS. For anyone who might not know, Troy Hunt is behind a lot of security resources, including haveibeenpwned.com which allows […]
Tag: Experimentation
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How to Manage Your Fucks (and Other Coping Mechanisms)
This post is a follow-up to my TestBash Manchester 2018 Open Space session on mental health and how people try to manage theirs. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck Like many others, I have ups and downs in my mental health. I had a particularly low “down” period a few […]
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Verification as Code
I recently listened to a talk by Matt Long on Why We Should Test Programmable Infrastructure. You can watch a version of it on the MoT Dojo. During the talk, he used the phrase “infrastructure as code”, which you may have heard before. Wikipedia describes “infrastructure as code” as: “the process of managing […]
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SBTM in Practice with PQIP
Last year, I wrote about my first experience with SBTM, in collaboration with Mike Talks. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to use SBTM in the “real world”, on a client project that I was on for about six months. I’d like to reflect on that experience, and consider some of my learnings, […]
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Neurodiversity and My Problem with WIP Limits for Creative Work
On a recent project with a client, I helped the development team to implement a work in progress (WIP) limit. As the team got used to working towards finishing things before starting to work on new user stories, there was a noticeable improvement in the flow and pace of stories that were ready to […]