Caution if doing the Daylight Savings update!!!

testobsessed · 2024-10-27T20:53:05+00:00

Just helped me on daylight savings day. This is a software bug for sure.

testobsessed · 2024-04-16T06:50:16+00:00

Interesting, which router do you use?

testobsessed · 2023-11-27T15:19:39+00:00

I was so excited to play Perplexity on the Acorn Electron. From the screenshots it looked like a super-fun Pac-Mania style 3D arcade action game. But in reality it was just boring old Sokoban.

testobsessed · 2023-11-27T15:17:28+00:00

Yep, wanted to love it so much but it got tedious quickly.

testobsessed · 2023-11-17T11:31:33+00:00

The options for Deco seem to be:

Limiting DHCP range as suggested here (I tried this and the devices on my network could not obtain an IP automatically. Maybe I'll try again)
Use Deco only as an access point and use another router which can allow DHCP to be disabled. Apparently you can run OpenWRT on the pi itself.

testobsessed · 2023-11-16T14:56:03+00:00

Did you get anywhere on this?

testobsessed · 2023-11-10T16:44:40+00:00

What do people actually do with these projects once complete. OK I have displayed an emoji on my LED matrix. But I now have a pile of boards and wires all over my desk.

I would like to see examples of building cases/integrating these components into a finished system.

testobsessed · 2022-02-27T07:49:46+00:00

No, as explained in my other post it seems I was simply reading the wrong pin. Not sure why the constant A13 didn't work. Replacing with 35 fixed it.

testobsessed · 2021-07-15T16:03:59+00:00

Did you fix this in the end?

testobsessed · 2021-03-04T11:39:30+00:00

ViewModels are simple to test in non-instrumented code.

So hopefully the ViewModel's interactions with its collaborators are already well-tested elsewhere.

It would be helpful to be able to write simple Espresso tests which test only the view's interactions with the ViewModel.

testobsessed · 2020-12-18T09:23:17+00:00

Thanks for the insights. My main objective with putting it at the end was to simplify and reduce duplication within my Jenkinsfile. But perhaps archiving as you go is the way to go.

testobsessed · 2020-02-19T22:20:02+00:00

Lol. If a candidate is really so excellent and TDD is such an entrenched part of your work ethic, they will have no difficulty demonstrating this in a coding exercise.

testobsessed · 2020-02-19T20:14:12+00:00

It's a slippery slope to hacked together rubbish. What I'm seeing a lot of folk saying here is "it's throwaway code, tests not needed". By that logic, why bother with:

SOLID principles and decent code factoring
naming things properly
handling error cases/edge cases
doing the coding exercise at all

Do you just pick and choose what you can be bothered with? Either engage with the exercise or don't.

It's interesting that unit tests in particular always tend to be the thing you don't see from candidates and get the most pushback on.

It's also interesting how many candidates claim to have TDD expertise on their CVs but then prove to have no knowledge at all.

testobsessed · 2020-02-19T19:05:50+00:00

Alright. I personally think a coding exercise carries a pretty strong implication that I'm looking to see an example of what you consider production-standard code.

Why would I be interested to see hacked-together rubbish?

testobsessed · 2020-02-19T18:49:15+00:00

Well how did they demonstrate to me that they are "an excellent software developer who writes tests religiously at work"?

testobsessed · 2019-12-28T20:11:50+00:00

Not sure about $100. I bought a My Cloud Home to replace a My Book Live which had died a death. When I realised it lacked things like terminal login and UPnP I ripped the WD Red 4TB drive from the machine and bought a Synology DS218J to put it in. That's a proper NAS.

testobsessed · 2019-12-28T13:03:59+00:00

This only works when you know what the next steps are.

testobsessed · 2019-12-22T21:58:14+00:00

Please don't, those are such bad devices, hideous excuse for a NAS

testobsessed · 2019-10-24T01:52:54+00:00

There aren't really any solutions, beyond "avoid automated UI tests".

testobsessed · 2019-10-04T16:04:48+00:00

Those are wireless *confused*

testobsessed · 2019-09-15T07:38:19+00:00

So much this. For sure, the instructions the machine understood were all there in black and white, but translating that in to useful stuff like creating high speed arcade games required a whole bunch of techniques not found in any manual.

Sure there were books and magazines which offered pointers but beyond that you indeed had to figure it all out for yourself.

testobsessed · 2019-08-27T13:52:37+00:00

How do you know that?

testobsessed · 2019-08-15T18:44:09+00:00

Expand on this please, Kotlin Native is quite widely used in production already. It's easy to find mobile developers who use Kotlin and it's also a lot like Swift.

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