Evaluations are Filled with GateKeepers Rejecting Skilled People — Evaluations are an attempt to put a technical band-aid on a Human Resource problem, where those evaluating may not have the skills to really know what’s required of someone for a role. I bring my opinions to you by prefacing it with having 19+ years in the Tech industry and watching it grow and evolve over time. Every single esoteric technology comes and goes or at one point is called the greatest thing since sliced bread from time to time. …

Knowing that this moment might be all we ever find. — Quarantine. For the Emmons family, it is a Gift of Time. Isolation can be freedom from distraction, freedom from the stares of shame, freedom to move at our pace, and freedom to learn new skills. For my daughter Ruby — my life purpose is to make the complex, overwhelming, or…

Severity defines the degree of impact of a bug on a software application to produce detrimental results. Greater the severity, the greater the impact on functionality and operation of a system. Priority defines a bug in terms of the degree of impact on the business and users. …

There’s been a lot of talk lately about Mobile First. Here’s a starting point of how to think in terms of Mobile Testing. — More than two-thirds access the internet on a mobile device. Here’s a starting point of how to think in terms of Mobile Testing and make sure your site is ready for modern commerce needs. “When mobile comes to picture, the most important feature is user-friendliness. No matter, how good your…

Intellectual Curiosity | Self Improvement | Business Knowledge — One of the ways Delta’s bookshelves inspired me this year since joining in February was to set a personal reading goal. I hit that goal this week: Read 40 Books in 40 Weeks. …

Experimenting with k6.io for Automated Performance Testing — I’m asking for early feedback on this in order to learn more. k6 is a developer centric open source load and performance regression testing tool for testing the performance of your cloud native backend infrastructure: APIs, microservices, serverless, containers and websites. It’s built to integrate well into your development workflow and CI/CD automation pipelines.

Surviving Ten Years of #22q #CHD and now #T1D We all have our own struggles in life. Sometimes, I have to write things down to help make sense of the world. This is the first of many more blogs to bring awareness, hope, and inspiration to the countless people coping…

Supercharge your Dev Team with CodeceptJS in 60 seconds — CodeceptJS is a modern framework for rapidly building End-to-End tests. The framework arms development teams with all the essential tools needed to get started quickly, while also providing the flexibility to supercharge your end-to-end configurations to your heart’s content. TLDR: Fork my codeceptjs-defaults repo and start building your own tests…

Using the Kucoin Exchange API #HowToBUIDL (7/n) — In the previous article, we focused on obtaining approximate price data for just about any cryptocurrency or ERC20 token listed on any exchange. Some people in crypto don’t necessarily need the most up-to-date data, so the article on using the CoinMarketCap API might suffice. It provides “good enough” data to…