• Follow-up: Reboot

    It’s been just over a year since I announced my Reboot in which I decided to take my development skills to “the next level.” Since then I landed a new gig, have reached near expert level proficiency in iOS automation, and have kept going with the full stack course, but have really focused on being

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  • XCUITest, CircleCI, and Parallelization

    TL;DR CircleCI and XCUITest are not a match made in heaven and you’re definitely not going to get parallelization. I spent a solid three working days to figure this out and while I didn’t produce what I was hoping for, I learned a lot along the way. Background My company uses CircleCI, we make an iOS

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  • On Fancy Yog(h)urt

    THIS WAS WRITTEN 7 YEARS AGO. I AM CLEANING UP OLD POST DRAFTS. I DON’T KNOW WHY I DIDN’T POST THIS. I’ve gone ahead and updated links, which was interesting because so many of these brands have changed hands since that time. Only minor edits and fixes made. I’ve compiled the following list of yogurts

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  • Page Object Model: Abstract everything

    Update: February 9, 2024. I’m going to walk this one back a bit. I’ve seen arguments against it that are valid. In particular, these are arguments against Clean Code. Does what I suggest make sense in the use case I had at the time of writing? Yes. Does it always? No. This is the part

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  • Mia, Month 9

    This month was all about pulling up and standing on everything with a small dose of separation anxiety creeping in (see last photo – was trying to pose her standing). We made a trip out to Hood River to visit some friends and a couple of trips to the Burnside Skatepark to see something different

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  • Book: Winners Take All

    The rich “think” they’re the ones who can save the rest of us. As such, they’re the majority of who you see on the boards of philanthropic and social groups. Why would the rich want to help the poor? They only get rich off the backs of the poor in a closed system that is

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