Whilst interviewing for jobs the topic of testing often comes up, in most of my roles I have advocated testing and even introduced it. To the interviewers surprise, some of my personal projects have testing suites. Personal projects are often things you do for fun, a way to learn/express creativity....
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My experiences with CI/CD
The team members who enjoys doing boring testing and deployments
Often in my work, the CI/CD process has been handled by someone else and I’ve very rarely needed to peek behind the curtain. I think names like Jenkins and Travis are great for CI/CD tools, I tend to anthropomorphize them, thinking of them as team members. When explaining CI/CD to...
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Knowing when to stop a personal project
Or How I Learned to Stop Coding and Love the Result
Despite it being a long hard road, one of the skills I have inadvertently picked up over the last few years is knowing when to stop a project. It hasn’t been easy nor am I perfect at it, but every project should end at some stage, this is even in...
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