amcooper @amcooper@mastodon.technology
Wonders about humanity sometimes—Slightly annoying—Pretty good computer programmer—Stuck in the USA—Supporter of small dogs—@amcooper@diasp.org
#introductions Hello all! I am a professor at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, conducting robotics research and teaching probability, statistics and other subjects at the undergraduate and graduate levels
We all need a free alternative to YouTube!
PeerTube is a decentralized video hosting network, based on free/libre software.
PeerTube is currently in beta version, that's why @Framasoft needs your help to pave the road to version 1.0!
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
(Framasoft is a small french non-profit, so do not hesitate to Boost this Toot to non-french user and invite them to help us fund PeerTube v1)
Github is now a fully owned, proprietary tool of Microsoft.
It's time to decide.
Do we as a community allow our future to depend upon commercial interests of a company that to this day spreads FUD and minimizes our impact when it suits their plans?
Or do we step up, do what we do best and take our code to somewhere created by the us for us and the good of the community?
This isn't about hating Microsoft. It's about loving our own sovereignty and controlling our *own* future.
Please Boost.
More specific guide questions below, but they're mostly there to indicate what I do/n't know.
* Code coverage: Should N% of the code be covered by unit tests?
* Do the devs run their unit tests before committing, or are they run automatically as a condition of successful commit?
* Does the QA department (haha me) write all the UI tests? Can these all be automated? Where in the process do they run? What event is triggered upon failure?
* What tests can't be automated?
Thanks #sdlc #qa #testing #webdev (3/3)
I am doing a bunch of research, naturally, but I'd love to hear from people in the trenches. Also, I suspect that the boss has some pretty clear ideas about what he wants to do, and just doesn't have time to actually do it.
The stack includes Node, GraphQL, React, Redux, Relay. #sdlc #qa #testing #webdev (2/3)
#advice What are the components of a software #QA infrastructure, & how do they interact with each other & the broader development cycle?
I'll be starting a new job where I'm tasked with setting up the QA infrastructure at an online publisher. Currently the devs write unit tests, but the rest of QA is done quite informally, & they're at a point where they need to formalize it to reduce bottlenecks. #sdlc #qa #testing #webdev (1/3)
Friendly reminder: In terms of value stolen, the two largest forms of theft are wage theft and civil forfeiture. Wage theft alone accounts for more value stolen than all other forms of theft combined. The two most likely people to steal from you are your boss and the cops.
I got this offer and accepted and start on 6/11!
Cancelled my Evernote subscription and trying out Turtl - a secure, encrypted Evernote alternative - https://turtlapp.com/
US pol, rant Show more
There are people who still don’t know what a browser is, as they use one to get to Google
They equate email with GMail, they think of Facebook as the internet
These people are no less deserving of a freedom from vendor lock-in or proprietary software than those who are more tech-literate
>> … on average, when Craigslist’s opened erotic services in a city, the female homicide rate went down 17 percent.
> 17 percent. That’s not the homicide rate for female sex workers. That’s the homicide rate for all women.
Whoa. https://medium.com/assembly-four/my-six-week-rollercoaster-ride-172eb58ba80e
#ask #askmastodon Does anyone have experience/insight getting #softwareQA infrastructure up & running at a startup? I'll be starting a new job at a four-year-old media company on a #react #Relay #GraphQL stack. Anything from books or blogs to advice could be helpful to me. Thanks!
Yesterday, Slovakia’s National Crime Agency seized a mobile phone belonging to @OCCRP 's partner, investigative reporter Pavla Holcova.
Slovak police invited Pavla for an interview for what we believed was a friendly meeting to aid the investigation into the murder of Jan Kuciak.
Instead, Pavla was interrogated for over eight hours. (...) Police made comments during the interrogation suggesting the Holcova’s professional history was “always against the system.”
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a big ol one
computer hongry boy
Morning, beautiful people.
As Audre Lorde famously said, your silence will not save you.
If you want a better life, a better place, a better world, there are going to be moments of sustained effort and struggle.
It would be nice if we as humans could just talk our differences out, but unfortunately that is not the case.
However, there are more people out there that are fighting for a better world than you think.
Keep pushing. We'll find each other.
How many browser tabs do you have open on your phone right now? I'll start.
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