Hey, a queue review! Today I’ll just throw some statistics out, because I calculated them today, and… why not. Since I started this transitional career phase in mid-January, I’ve produced: Essays...

When trying to get better at testing generally, developers tend to cry out for guidelines and goals. How do I assess whether I’m improving or not? How do I make recommendations to my teammates? How...

Given the principles described in The Quality of Test, I recently started to write a library that might nudge a developer to keep them in mind a bit more. To understand how I approached this thoug...

So testing. What’s up with that? I’ve been working with Test-Driven Development and its fellow traveler concepts for essentially the whole of my career, thanks to being introduced to the concept a...

I’ve been posting a lot of new stuff lately but I want to also draw your attention to a few old pieces I’ve done! Firstly, here’s a paper entitled “Metrics For Continuous Integration”. I wrote thi...

Open workspaces are controversial. Many people who read this may react with a strong “because they’re awful!” or “because they’re amazing”, with each pulling up research papers, editorials, and he...

A few thoughts regarding the current situation the planet is facing - the COVID-19 pandemic. Firstly, as painful as things currently are, they are about to get much, much worse. Prepare for a long...

Mea culpa! Obviously I haven’t updated the solo queue review for some time now. Lots to talk about! Firstly, I visited Las Vegas, and then Los Angeles, to see friends and family respectively. Gre...

One of the concepts I’ve been advocating for over the last year is that of “Radical Availability” in the workplace. Now, understanding precisely what I mean by this depends at least partially on u...

What does it mean to be responsible? Let me add a bit of context. Say you have a basketball team of six people. No coach. Who is responsible for making sure the team performs as well as they possi...