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Technology

Infrastructure testing (Ruby): InSpec + Azure

Infra testing is mostly uncharted territory

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Technology

Review: Digi.Me + UBDI

ubdi and digi.me logos

Good idea. Terrible execution.

UBDI stands for Universal Basic Data Income, a word play on UBI. I heard about it in a TED talk from Jennifer Scott on “Why you should get paid for your data”. The concept was interesting:

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Technology

Cypress: PageObjects vs AppActions

Photo by Jason Dent on Unsplash

I use Selenium to write most of my automated checks, and the PageObjects pattern is a must. My current team is using Cypress and, to my surprise, this test framework recommends AppActions instead of PageObjects. So I decided to benchmark both patterns using the following criteria:

  • Can it abstract page selectors?
  • Can it abstract page actions?
  • Is it easy to write and maintain those abstractions?
  • Is it easy to write tests?
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Photography

Online affordable photo backup: Google Photos vs Amazon Glacier

Photo by Alex Machado on Unsplash

The winner depends on your needs

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Photography

Digital Photography workflow

Photography has been my hobby for almost a decade now. During that time I adapted my digital photography workflow several times: I switched from photoshop to Lightroom, switched from local drive backups to online cloud backups.

After all these years of trial and error I decided to formalise my workflow and share it with you.

workflow diagram