I’ve been meaning to do some devOps certification for years. But I never finish online classes that I sign up. I don’t know how many unfinished Udemy courses I’ve started. Actually I can tell you. It’s 17 courses that I’ve never finished. However, recently I finished a graduate diploma in financial advice. So I’ve proven… Continue reading DevOps Newbies
Health and fitness update
I recently posted on reddit that I wanted to start training for a marathon. Who wants to join me? I started fitness fatties on meetup and facebook to help find people. Here is the response to some of the concerns in that thread. My goal If I lose weight from training it’s an added benefit.… Continue reading Health and fitness update
What is quality?
I just finished listening to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, abridged on Audible. I didn’t like it. The narration was engaging but I got lost. It felt like intellectual wankery and it made me feel stupid for not already understanding the philosophical terms/frameworks used. I don’t understand why you would divide human understanding… Continue reading What is quality?
Getting up to speed on a new team
If you had seen my tales of fail blog or my career growth over time, you may notice I’ve started a new tech role on average once a year since I started in tech over 10 years ago. There’s been a series of 6 month contracts, redundancies and company misfits. The most I’ve stayed with… Continue reading Getting up to speed on a new team
Tales of fail
Slides for vodQA presentation How I’ve failed I failed school When I started university I enrolled in a combined mechatronics/computer science degree overloaded with a diploma of Japanese. I had graduated high school in the top 3% in my state. I could do anything I wanted at uni. I was always told I was a… Continue reading Tales of fail
Having multiple CV’s
I find myself job hunting again and this time I’ve actually put in the effort to have multiple CV’s. Basically I’m keeping the first page the same but on the second page I have a portfolio for role specific experience. Even though I’m mostly applying for software testing roles, there’s still different specialties in that… Continue reading Having multiple CV’s
Meh to awesome pipelines
This is a placeholder blog post for my LambdaTest Conference talk. Here are the Slides. Context I started a new role 3 months ago (You can read on my job hunting process here). This is a story of how I’m getting involved with the process and what I’ve been helping improve from a quality and… Continue reading Meh to awesome pipelines
boardgames
Here is a list of boardgames in the office and how to play guides. Access Sam’s full list of games here, and the other half’s collection here. Arboretum Azul Bears Vs Babies Carcassone Cat Lady Cat Tower Codenames Ticket to ride
Engineer in Test job hunting update
Wow, I haven’t written a blog post for a while. I finished up a 3 month contract in February and was experiencing a sense of burn out. It’s taken me 2 months to recover some sense of sanity. I’d like to take a longer break but I recently got a tax bill for my companies… Continue reading Engineer in Test job hunting update
AusNOG
Here are notes and further reading for the AusNOG presentation skills workshop. Miro board link Complicated diagram walkthrough Free coaching session Sample code slides Technical presentations blog Sketchnoting Human Cognition most people don’t read (it takes too much energy). Reference: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: Gestalt Principles How to look good on video… Continue reading AusNOG