This question comes up often on Swift mailing lists. Once you learn Swift, you’ll get addicted and want to use it everywhere. It’s not quite as straightforward writing a script in Swift as it is in python or bash. However, there are lots of benefits.
A number of companies use the word dogfood testing to describe part of their software testing process. I believe it’s a powerful and essential part of testing as I mention in My hierarchy of testing. However, it means different things to different people, so I wanted to describe how …
This tip could be useful to anyone with multiple Macs, but was developed in my role as a software tester. I would sometimes use screenshots as a way to remind myself of a bug I found and needed to file.
My workflow was to find bugs on multiple Macs, take …
While working in three different organizations that rapidly scaled by at least 10 times the number of employees, scalability became a huge problem each time.
I formed many ideas over the years about how things could have been done better. Everything I’ve listed here has a focus on improving productivity …
This is based on working in the software world for quite some time, ranging from technical support to consulting to quality assurance to software engineering. And from observing people at every chance I get. While some things improve in software, some pesky things stay the same and repeat themselves whenever …
Marks are a little used feature in Terminal but can be insanely useful depending on how you use Terminal. I’ll explain by example.
As companies get larger, mailing lists get larger and noisier and generally less useful at disseminating information or fostering debate.
Here are some succinct tips on making the most of mailing lists while minimally impacting the productivity of list members.
Never email a list …
When editing a document in Terminal, whether it be vi or emacs or your-favorite-text-editor, you can use keyboard commands to move the cursor around.
But unless you’re an expert, the commands can be hard-to-remember and tedious. It’s also not very Mac-like. A little gem in Terminal is that you can …
In any user interface element that accepts text, there are a set of text editing keyboard shortcuts that work in almost every application. Most are not listed in menus or only in certain applications.
Here’s a great link that documents most of the shortcuts. Note that the document is missing …
I wrote this little anecdote shortly after Steve Jobs passed away. Despite it happening more than 5 years ago, it still is imprinted on my brain and does a great job of illustrating the person I felt he was.
I was leaving the main building on the Apple campus. Just …