This is a list of content I posted to, or found useful, on Twitter. And stuff I posted to Patreon.

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Twitter

• Viv's 12 Day's Testing Advent Calendar was funhttps://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1343508075802718208
  https://12daysoftestmas.netlify.app/
  
• Static Analysis in the Games Industryhttps://www.viva64.com/en/b/0778/
  
• Static Analysis Top 10 Game Bugshttps://hownot2code.com/2018/05/08/static-analysis-in-video-game-development-top-10-software-bugs/
  
• Check the bottom of this post for an example of Google Colaboratoryhttps://tms1337.medium.com/but-dude-tdd-is-so-slow-and-besides-it-all-boils-down-to-the-same-sh-t-78ea3e8afe6d
  
• My TestFlix talkhttps://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1338464444221956098
  
  

Blog Posts For December 2020

• API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos id 404 How to solve challenge GET todos id 404.
  

Patreon Posts For December 2020

• XMas Testing Challenge Your Challenge: What issues did The Pulper team miss in version 11?
  
• Cellular AutomataI've always been fascinated by Cellular Automata but never seen any good usecases.
  
• Open Source Profile - Open Quality Conference Keynote RecordingThe recording of my talk: 'Open Source Profile' from the Open Quality Conference - Keynote Recording
  
• Buggy Gamesgames are essentially 'engines'
  
• Some beginner programing notesLessons reminded when coding with a beginner.
  
• The temptation to write a tool...One of my biases is towards tooling. Not just finding and using tools but building tools. Thinking Tactically helps me.
  
• Secure by Design BookSecure by Design Book
  
• Data Modelling takes practiceData Modelling takes practice. Learn tools of structural modelling, and the approaches for semantic modelling.
  
• Analytics and Cookie Compliance LawsOne thing I've been meaning to do for a while is move off Google Analytics... and now have.
  
• Finishing is hard - tips to helpTips for incrementally writing and releasing.
  
• Jupyter Colab PythonSome tools just keep popping back up on my radar.
  
• Content Summary for November 2020Content Summary for November 2020
  
• November 2020 Collated PDFsNovember 2020 Collated PDFs
  
• More Communication Solves Everything?When in doubt put more communication out.
  
• Remote AgileRemote Agile Pairing and time zones.
  
• Fear as a motivatorIs fear a motivator?
  
• What does that imply?Very often our 'testing' techniques don't have to be complicated. I like summarising them to simple questions.
  
• Switching tooling considerations - sometimes you stickSwitching between strategic tooling is a big decision. You may have to migrate slowly, and use both in parallel.
  
• Onboarding and QualityOnboarding is a very hard problem for tools that are 'different'. Quality relates to our mental models.
  
• The Power of an AskThe 'Management Ask' has a lot of power and too open to accidental abuse.
  
• Office PoliticsOffice politics are interesting, painful, but interesting.
  
• Estimates and ModelsTreat the process of estimation of building a model. Try to identify what you can monitor to improve the model over time.
  
• Things not to automate using SeleniumI've broken the best practice 'rules' in the past. And I'll explain why.