A consultant provides 20 questions to assess the maturity, predictability, and effectiveness of software development teams and their processes.
Explains Playwright's built-in test retries, auto-waiting locators, and explicit Retry API for custom conditions in test automation.
A developer explores running LLMs on a Raspberry Pi Pico with memory constraints, creating a witty e-ink display that generates content from news feeds.
Discloses a CWE-400 uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the xmlhttprequest npm package due to missing timeout controls.
A guide to configuring and running Ruby on Rails system tests with headless Chrome in GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
A technical exploration of the CSS :has() pseudo-class, demonstrating its power for selecting parent and sibling elements with interactive demos.
React Query v5 will remove useQuery callbacks, exploring API design challenges and the rationale behind breaking changes in library development.
A biweekly newsletter summarizing the latest news, articles, and tools in mobile test automation for iOS and Android development.
Discusses why blindly copying technical solutions or processes from one team to another often fails due to unique team and company contexts.
A developer analyzes the practical challenges of responsive images on modern high-resolution smartphones, questioning if serving smaller image variants is still effective.
Explains three methods for setting custom HTTP headers in an Astro website deployed on Netlify, including config files and edge functions.
Explores the difference between rigorous prompt engineering and amateur 'blind prompting' for language models, advocating for a systematic, test-driven approach.
Explores four methods to implement enum-like structures in JavaScript, covering plain objects, Object.freeze(), proxies, and classes.
A summary of a web development panel discussion where developers answered audience questions and discussed the future of the field.
A guide to creating, connecting to, and deleting MySQL Cloud SQL instances on Google Cloud Platform using both the Console UI and gcloud CLI.
Explores performance improvements in .NET 8 Preview 3, comparing benchmarks for string operations and other features against .NET 6 and 7.
Overview of two major VMware events in London for April 2023: the VMware Technology Forum and the London VMUG user group meeting.
A technical guide on fine-tuning the BLOOMZ language model using PEFT and LoRA techniques, then deploying it on Amazon SageMaker.
Explains JEP 443: Unnamed Patterns and Variables in Java, a feature to eliminate the need for unused variable declarations in lambdas, catches, and patterns.
A guide to installing and configuring Git Bash/MINGW/MSYS2 on Windows, including adding tools like 'make' and customizing the shell environment.
