Chromium: The Behind the Scenes Hero Powering Modern Web Testing

If you’re building or testing web applications today, there’s a good chance Chromium is working hard behind the scenes for you — even if you’ve never written a line of browser automation test code. What Chromium is, how it differs from Chrome, what actually does it actually do,

When They Ask You to Be Less

There's a particular kind of pain that's especially hard to notice or identify, even for yourself. It's the pain of being asked — not directly, never directly — to be less than who you are. To use fewer of your skills. To share fewer of your

To the Men Who Saw Something in Me

We live in a world that — rightly — still talks a lot about the gaps between men and women. The pay gap. The opportunity gap. The respect gap. And I'm not going to sit here and pretend any of that isn't real. It is. For a lot

How Compliments Can Reveal A Cage Around You

"You're doing a great job right where you are." At first, it sounds like one of the nicest things someone could ever say to you. It's encouraging. It's affirming. It makes you feel appreciated. But there is a version of this compliment

The Evolution of Native Terminals and IDE's with Terminals: How We Talk to Computers

Full article Before Computer Terminals and IDE's (Integrated Development Environment) In the 1960s, computers were enormous, extremely expensive machines (like room-sized refrigerators that cost millions in today’s money). Only big organizations like universities, governments, and large companies could afford them. NASA had the entire first floor

Riding Towards to Goal as a Team or Playing Catch Up

Full article In today’s fast-moving business world, how teams work together when creating something new can turn a good launch into a great one. The old-school “build it and hand it off” approach between teams and departments often leads to headaches, misunderstanding, and incomplete information. But when

From Garages to Glass Towers: How Tech Culture Ate Itself

Full article There's a particular kind of mythology that Silicon Valley loves to tell about itself. You know the one — two guys in a garage, soldering iron in hand, fueled by pizza and borderline reckless ambition, building something that changes the world. It's a good story.

Unlocking Success from the Ground Up: How Bottom-Up Feedback Transforms Businesses Like Burberry

Note from author: When I was working my first job at 18 years old, I heard about how Burberry had transformed their business and basically brought it back to life, making it relevant again by doing something that was mostly unheard of at the time (in the early 2000'

When the Stakes Are High, So Is the Need for Rigorous Team QA Testing: Lessons from the Apollo Program and the Saturn V Rocket

Full article In the race to the Moon, NASA faced one of humanity’s most audacious engineering challenges. The Saturn V rocket—the most powerful launch vehicle ever built at the time—stood taller than a 36-story building and generated 7.5 million pounds of thrust from its five

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