• It got me!

    After dodging it for two years, COVID has entered our home. I’m the only one testing positive so far and we’re hoping it stays that way, but man, it’s out there! We know of ~7 friend cases around the US when it had previously never been more than 1 or 2. I’m isolated in our

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  • A Happy 1 Month Birthday To You, Bryn

    And then there were two. Daughters. Or three. Women under our roof. Or four. If you count one of the cats. On March 27th at 8:44 pm, we welcomed 8lbs 3oz, 20.5” Bryn Sybil to the world. While the birth process was relatively tame compared to that of Mia, this little one really wanted to

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  • Zwift: The absurd effect of height on TT performance

    I do a lot of indoor cycling and racing. Surprise! Of late, I’ve been doing some time trials, and have performed satisfactorily against myself, but looking at the data I seem to be going much slower than you’d expect given a basic understanding of fluid dynamics and… physics? I don’t even know the fields, but

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  • Is .firstMatch faster than .element? An XCUITest Becnhmarking Exercise

    I recently came across a Youtube video (not linking it because I didn’t think it was particularly good) where a key point the presenter was trying to make was that using .firstMatch was far more efficient than using .element when attempting to locate an element because it stops at the first element found as opposed to continuing

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  • Timer Patterns in XCUITest

    Waiting for things to happen is one of the main challenges in UI testing; I can’t click something if it’s still animating onto the screen or we’re waiting for data to load. While test frameworks do have some built-in intelligence to wait for the application to idle, they’re rarely enough to provide a reliable experience,

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  • Snow Season Recap

    Days on the mountain have been hard to come by for various obvious reasons the past few years, but this year I got five days in (assuming I’m done at t-minus two weeks until baby girl) and in pretty cool fashion so I figured it’d be worth sharing. Big ups to my massively pregnant wife

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