Bruce is Undeveloped, but maybe development will help – learn with me!
I am an overachiever. I've always set out to excel at things, and I'm not particularly ambitious or choosy about what those things are. Working the breakfast shift in a hotel kitchen was definitely not what my parents hoped for me when I got my degree in Environmental Earth Sciences - but in everyday ways,… Continue reading The Power of Small Goals
(note: this is like one of those recipe pages where the life story is at the top, recipes at the bottom, feel free to scroll past the fluff) What is up my friends! It's been a while, and I thought I'd kick us back off with a fun post about how I draw. I've split… Continue reading The Drawing Process
This is something a bit quick and different, since I reckon not enough of you know what absolute legends you are. Which is a total travesty, to be honest. How can you not know??! I decided recently to find more ways of making the people around me realise how awesome they are. So I guess… Continue reading A Legendary Showcase
TL;DR: I don't do 1-1s with my manager so I do them with myself instead, usually while crying at my desk or banging my head against it. Some things never change, eh? Tips at the bottom! (If you haven't read much of my blog before, you should know that crying at my desk is just… Continue reading The Self Retrospective
The second installment in the Goodbye Testing Columns Trilogy follows Bruce as they navigate post-destruction uncertainty like a lost child after the apocalypse. Should they have just left well alone? Will they ever stop crying? Find out in today's episode.
We're getting rid of the testing columns in Jira, woo! This is part 1, which covers the decision making process leading up to the event.
So if you've been following my blog for a while, you probably know a bit about my first crack at test automation - the Visual Regression Tests. These take screenshots of our products and then run pixel comparisons after a change is deployed to check if code changes have resulted in unwanted visual changes. It… Continue reading VRT: A series of mistakes
I began my journey as a software tester in April 2018, and six months later in October 2018 I decided to make myself a Personal Development Plan since my workplace didn't have one for me. It's been a year since then, so I'm having a look back at the last twelve months to see what… Continue reading Personal Development, One Year of Progress
(Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!) I'm not done learning JavaScript yet, so I thought: do you know what, let's look at some other languages now. I don't know anyone who's finished a Udemy course anyway, and 33% completion is very good so it's time for me to move on (edit: I have completed at least one Udemy course) to… Continue reading Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby!
My mum always, always commented on how I hated change growing up. When I started secondary school I was miserable for six months. Same for college, and for university. For each of my new jobs, I would come home crying that I hated it and everyone hated me and thought me terribly pretentious and aloof… Continue reading Skills for driving change
Undeveloped Bruce 