SShine Bright Like a Diamond
Very excited to be working with the Sketch team starting this week. Had a great time with some of the folks attending WWDC and LayerConf.
Very excited to be working with the Sketch team starting this week. Had a great time with some of the folks attending WWDC and LayerConf.
The robots are coming and they are us. Everyone should go to a code school not only because code school grads aren't wanted for most dev jobs but your office roles are begging for your Jr dev…
After 5 years at Black Pixel and 1.5 years at 800 5th Ave , it's time again. Watch me age in reverse! Here's to 3 cool years at Foundry Interactive .
I don't know how much I've been able to accomplish at the office but I did meet one goal at least. Getting half the office to pick their first locks! If you're in Seattle, you can get a starter…
I really do spam links a lot. I feel like this month slowed down from some previous months . These are in no particular order. seattle js meetp :taco: :woman-shrugging: https://www.meetup.com…
When was the last time you ran brew cleanup or maybe a docker system prune -a or even a xcrun simctl delete unavailable eh? Spring cleaning, y’all! And don't forget to BACK UP YOUR DISK!
Another round of end of month links I shared with my team. TestChan Links :vibration_mode: https://medium.com/@sgrif/no-the-problem-isnt-bad-coders-ed4347810270 https://go.nrwl.io/nrwl-connect…
I'm not crying, you're crying. Sidenote: I hate the term mentor/mentee. I believe in co-mentorship and skillsharing, we all have our own experiences and skills to lend each other.
My team is doin' this free GraphQL online bootcamp together and levelin' up en masse. Like anything free, buyer beware, but it's super fun so far and my team self organized and even did the homework…
Wrap up of January links I thought were interesting that I posted to my team throughout January. Testing, Quality, Ops, Sec :foxwave: https://twitter.com/AlexanderOnTest/status/108096399508181401…
We haven't yet been able to get rid of passwords. Every other day I spam my team with this or that breach notice in Slack, they're so often they are hard to differentiate. For my team, I look up their…
Get prepared. Get pumped. Get organized. 2019 is basically here. My favorite thing to order every year: https://www.stendigcalendars.co.uk/
Much like my #softwaretesting channel contributions, I also spam a larger team-wide channel dubbed "LearnChan". This is 2018's output. https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and…
In the #softwaretesting channel at work, I post the output of my adventures in self-edification and any interesting links I encounter on the 27 Slacks, 3 Discords, 500 RSS feeds and 1 well manicured…
I often wonder what kind of mark am I leaving behind at work. Attempting to have some self-awareness and introspection on what I bring to a particular table. What I want to be known for (empowering…
A recent Slack exchange in a Project Mangement group. I hang out in too many Slack channels. Why are people like this? Please call out bullshit when you see it. Christine Nov 14th at 5:14 AM Hi…
I absolutely love my new Galago Pro from System76. On the inside, it's running Pop!OS and on the outside, well, see for yourself. I don't have sticker problems, I have sticker solutions .
I just discovered Logic mag. As a tester, developer and all around software professional, I am duty-bound to learn about failures, bugs and various technological foibles. I ran into a tale of an…
Full Stack JavaScript Developer (React/Node) REACT NATIVE EXPERIENCE A PLUS Foundry Interactive is looking to add a web-focused, contract developer with excellent JS skills in both front and back-end…
I love Calendly for coordinating meetings with people who can't see my calendar. It's extremely useful for recruiting and hiring, however, I didn't really like having to auth access to all of my…
Project management isn't just running standup and updating a Google document. It's a creative and strategic position. Are you a highly-organized self-starter who can manage the details without losing…
Even if you don't need glasses, if you're looking at screens all day, please consider getting blue blocking computer glasses. I got a pair and they have made such a huge difference. Absolutely worth…
Safe words aren't just for lascivious matters. You can set and make them in any context to provide an in or out for trusted parties. I woke up today with one ringing out in my head for the ladies in…
These make me incredibly happy and they feel amazing to type on. I might have a problem.
Of course you care about security and of course, you wouldn't just sticky note the Jenkins admin password to your lead dev's monitor. Perish the thought! For any non-trivial project, you will have to…
I noticed that the only thing some people leave behind at work is a custom emoji or two in the company Slack. Nothing in Dropbox. Nothing in the company wiki. Nothing that can be pointed to. Then I…
Hands. They're important but replaceable. Anyone can tap out the code. Anyone can file that bug report. Anyone can run stand-up. These all need to be done. We can all pitch in. Not all of us can keep…
My favorite bad-ass TPM Steph Datu shared this with the team today, it's a little old but a good walk through of junior front end web dev trivia that might come up in interviews. What is the level…
Trying to coordinate a meeting with your team is pretty easy when you can see each other's calendars. But when interviewing applicants, I had been going in blind, just doing a best-guess from either…
Aligning your team and having a plan is critical. No question about that. For a low-friction way to get that and build a culture around your team so they self-organize that way, you can use this small…
Slack has a very simple yet powerful feature called Reminders. The syntax takes a little getting used to. I've found them to be a low stress, high impact. Here's a few ways we've made them work for…
There is a common mindfulness practice of writing a gratitude list. This serves to recenter your thinking on the good things and to focus on humility. Now take this thinking and turn it towards your…
The amount of things I must document to survive the work day is enormous. I pretty much always have a notebook or two and a fist full of pens at the ready. I have stacks of filled journals. It's my…
I've been immersed in client services lately and wanted to share a very simple yet handy template. For every client project you have in flight, you should be sending a weekly checkin email about it…
Working with a new team has shown me a lot of things that I was blind to, having come from IT and a senior-devs-only agency. I didn't know what it was like to work with people for whom it was their…
You have your project all planned out. Your communications plan is ready to go. The kick-off deck is ready for the meeting. The team is all lined up. They've had buy-in participating in the…
My new project is Windows-heavy. I have up to this point made a career out of avoiding anything to do with Web or Windows. Now I'm doing both and feeling a bit lost. To better myself and get some…
Another 1.5 years of PhotoBooth selfies. Not a new job, just a new project.
I've been work-stressed lately, moving off one giant project and directly onto another. All those things I had wanted to do but never got around to. All those loose ends. All the ramping up and…
Now that my long-term client-site staff-augmentation-style project is coming to a close, I will now be able to work from home. After working for a remote-first company for ~5 years, having to be on…
A rule to live by is: never misuse time. Always communicate the meeting value to the attendees. To make the best use of meetings, please consider the following: Check your teammate's schedules before…
Sponsor me Post It. I'll drive a car with your logo on it.
I had a standing desk at my last job and really really missed it at the home so I fashioned one myself. I put a chair on my desk for the monitor and some LP boxes for the keyboard. It's actually…
Let's face it. Code school barely taught you how to CSS. They handwaved it in your general direction. They only gave you rudimentary HTML skills and alluded to semantic tags and muttered something…
There are so many more things you could do but this is the minimum bar I set for my team, they're all software developers so I don't harass 'em too much. We're a BYOD shop but I still like to remind…
Five years of PhotoBooth selfies.
Yes, I'm having a laugh but this is serious. ...should designers learn to code ...should testers learn to code ...should project managers learn to code https://twitter.com/smariapena/status…
Whether you are a PM or QA, you want to have your finger on the pulse of a project. If you've got Slack, you can leverage applications and integrations to find that vein. Create a dedicated channel in…
For the company blog. I'm ok at titles but who doesn't fancy themselves an ideas man? My draft bucket is out of control. Using Instruments To Test Your iOS App For the Complete and Total Noob…
We all know that Documentation is Critical and Shared passwords are too . We may not always need a multi-page wiki document but getting a quick list of project vitals and pinning them in a Post in…
Put all your contracts in a Git repo. Reference SHAs with your lawyer. Do diffs with your CxOs.
QUALITY ASSURANCE IS MORE THAN TRYING TO BREAK SOFTWARE It's about finding empirical evidence of alignment of project needs, vision, and strategy. The project needs constant and immediate feedback…
RESPONSIBILITIES The kind of QA person we're looking for will know as much about the current state of the application's requirements as any developer, designer, or project manager. They will know the…
Everyone's favorite RSS app for the Mac has a new version out. It's a 4.0 Public Beta built from the bones of the Lite version. Check out the official announcement! Oh, and please file some bug…
Sometimes people are sort of like unicorns. You know they exist. You know they are magic. You don't know how you came to understand their magic. Then they suddenly appear in front of you! Mr Hoang…
Agile certification mostly just reinforced my hatred of Scrum and my love for Kanban.
As a UX-focused software tester who is passionate about the usability of software, accessibility has been of particular interest to me. People accept technology into their life because of an unspoken…
I can't say too much that couldn't be uncovered by participating in the public beta but it's finally here and official. I'm especially proud of a corner-use-case I advocated to get turned into a solid…
Any interest? Hit me or Craigslist up, I have more!! Computer books are the worst thing to invest in as they are out of date before they are even printed. The thirst for knowledge can't be quenched…
I wish there was more surface area and I think I need a mat but super stoked Black Pixel styled me out with a standing desk!!
Today we stood in line, in the rain, like a buncha goons, for new iPads. You can't really tell it's us, but we're just hanging out in University Village, having a good time.