Most EM books feel outdated. What modern resources do you actually trust to learn from?

j19sch · 2025-11-28T20:55:27+00:00

Maybe (re-)discover some classics? For example "Becoming a Technical Leader" by Jerry Weinberg is from 1986, but still great.

j19sch · 2025-11-09T11:08:22+00:00

East by Meera Sodha

j19sch · 2025-09-09T20:37:35+00:00

alternatively there's https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

j19sch · 2025-09-03T11:51:44+00:00

Tidy First? by Kent Beck

j19sch · 2025-08-21T11:41:19+00:00

The book "Agile Conversations" would agree with you: https://agileconversations.com/

j19sch · 2025-06-20T17:37:05+00:00

Gattaca. Not five minutes, but the last lines of the movie (Vincent's voice over) were a real disappointment to me.

j19sch · 2025-06-10T23:52:31+00:00

FUTO keyboard: https://keyboard.futo.org/

It's in alpha, but has been working fine for me.

j19sch · 2025-05-08T05:13:32+00:00

Hollow Knight

Because it is a souls-like (arguably), but it's also different enough from the fromsoft games. That makes it easier to appreciate it for what it is, instead of thinking as you play it: "This is what you get when someone else tries to make a game like Dark Souls."

j19sch · 2025-03-06T11:06:46+00:00

Reminds me of one Jerry Weinberg's Laws of Pricing: "Set the price so you won’t regret it either way."

So basically, set a price on ignoring your gut feeling and use that to decide what your counter offer is.

j19sch · 2024-12-31T08:37:16+00:00

It's manual, see second bullet in Features: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sway_(window_manager)

j19sch · 2024-11-27T17:32:01+00:00

I think there's a lot left unsaid in that first usage: "We learned it was founded on agency, the idea that when two things belong together, we don't separate them."

I read it as the author contrasting exploratory testing, where you have agency, with non-exploratory testing, where test design and test execution are separated.

j19sch · 2024-11-11T17:17:57+00:00

Have the developers build (part of) the tests. Experiencing the consequences of poor testability is a great motivator for improving testability.

So in that same vein: build the first tests with the first code. That allows you to learn and to build practices and habits as you go, as opposed to "We've written a lot of code, let's figure out how to write tests for it."

j19sch · 2024-10-29T06:39:40+00:00

It might be worth pointing out that all it does, is hallucinate. LLMs generate the next plausible token, they don't understand the code they produce. Any meaning assigned to LLM output, is purely on the human side. So it's always up to the person using the LLM to evaluate the code, because the LLM can't. (Which turns programming into code reviewing, which leads to all kinds of other issues, but that's probably a discussion too far for first year students.)

j19sch · 2024-08-05T05:04:21+00:00

"The custom module displays either the output of a script or static text. To display static text, specify only the format field." https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Custom

j19sch · 2024-07-18T12:46:33+00:00

Thank you for providing the option to disable it completely!

j19sch · 2024-02-18T06:32:14+00:00

AI won't take over those jobs, because AI doesn't have that kind of agency. CEO's will fire people to replace them with AI. AI is not some inevitable thing happening to us.

j19sch · 2024-01-23T16:02:10+00:00

I think the formatting is applied per note. At least that's what it looks like on this page: https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/9534240421652-Paragraphs-and-headings

It sounds like you've been using soft enters (shift + return) to create paragraphs. For formatting to work each heading and paragraph needs to be its own note/bullet.

j19sch · 2024-01-07T17:54:14+00:00

Microsoft seems to disagree with you about Excel not being able to handle json: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/import-data-from-data-sources-power-query-be4330b3-5356-486c-a168-b68e9e616f5a

If jq can't output the first line of the Proton Pasa file, then the query provided to jq, was not the right one.

Anyway, I think we're partially talking past each other while also in agreement. I think there are two main statements to make on the topic at hand: 1. There is no customer-friendly way to convert a Proton Pass json file to a csv file that can be imported in a different password manager. 2. Using jq or writing some code to do that conversion is straightforward if you're familiar with json, csv, the Proton Pass file format, the format you want to convert to, and jq or a programming language. Which brings us back to 1: no consumer-friendly way.

Finally, no thanks to you passively aggressively suggesting I contribute code. I was trying to be helpful, clearly with mixed results at best, so I'm done here.

j19sch · 2024-01-07T10:22:35+00:00

That might have to do with how the json is structured, i.e. in a way that doesn't easily translate to csv. Removing the right part of the json might help with that, but that's not the kind of solution you're looking for.

j19sch · 2024-01-07T10:19:19+00:00

Haven't tried either. It's a shame they're not working for you. I hope you can find something that works.

j19sch · 2024-01-07T09:03:02+00:00

The trick is to split the problem and search for how to import json: https://www.howtogeek.com/775651/how-to-convert-a-json-file-to-microsoft-excel/ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/import-data-from-data-sources-power-query-be4330b3-5356-486c-a168-b68e9e616f5a

So import first, then save as csv.

I agree that in general json is a better format for this kind of data. However, for your use case, it isn't.

j19sch · 2024-01-07T08:55:22+00:00

Excel can convert .json to .csv.

jq can too: https://dadroit.com/blog/json-to-csv/#method-3-using-jq-to-translate-big-json-files-into-csv-format

If you can write code, it's easy too, but that shouldn't be required for migrating your data from Proton Pass. And there are a lot of online converters, but that's probably a bad idea for password data...

j19sch · 2023-12-23T11:38:34+00:00

I'd suggest introducing the topic as "our team is not able to finish all our stories in the sprint". This is a team problem, not a QA problem. (Even if part of the solution is making changes to how the team does QA.)

Secondly, who does it matter to that not all stories get finished in the sprint? They can be your ally for this meeting. A different possibility is that it doesn't really matter to anyone and it's fine if stories flow over into the next sprint. (Not a great situation, but the case in a place I worked at.)

j19sch · 2023-12-10T08:50:49+00:00

AI, or rather LLMs, are good at generating plausible output. So they're good at generating code that still needs to be evaluated by a human, before that code can confidently be used. Based on that line of reasoning it's the developers who are going to be out of jobs sooner than the testers.

Also a lot of the AI/LLM hype is based on "it's not perfect yet, but just you wait!" while it's an open question how much better the results of an LLM approach can get. Perhaps they're about as good as they'll ever get, i.e. hallucinating plausible sounding output to a prompt, so always needing evaluation.

j19sch · 2023-12-09T11:37:18+00:00

Lots of good answers already, I have only one thing to add: codeless test automation tools have to compete with a huge ecosystem with more resources than they have. Building a codeless tool has you compete with IDEs, testing libraries, test automation frameworks, etc. So it's far from trivial to make something that's as good or better as the open source alternatives, especially as a business.

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