In the summer of 1991, I was inspired by Linus Torvalds early work on Linux, and decided to make an Operating System as my senior project. The goal was to build a system that had fundamental systems built modularly, so that future students could try replacing individual components with their own work, and seeing how…

One of the challenges facing a leadership of a group of SDET’s, is understating the goal and purpose of the team. It is not to write code, it is to find bugs. Writing code is one of the tools available to us, and often the best tool, but the existence of code is not sufficient.…

One of the best ways you can help your coworkers is to make sure you solve your problems in public. Whatever system you use, be it Slack or Teams, try to keep conversations in channels that can be searched by other developers. Nothing is more frustrating than searching and finding that someone at your workplace…

Confusion is expensive. I always push people to over document, by using verbose naming conventions for example. Test names should tell you what’s wrong without having to even look at the failure. The time saved by future-you not having to figure out what some cryptic abbreviations mean is worth the few seconds it takes to…

Working on building something here.