This is a QA and tester appreciation post because QAs are the last line of defense before our, developer’s, mistakes affect humans not on the development team.

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Well, weekly batches didn’t work for long. This time there are links about UX, Angular and couple unrelated topics.

Continue reading “Irregular Batch of Interesting Links #9”

As my career path is heading to interesting places, I came across Lisa Congdon’s book Art Inc. which deals with basics of art career.

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Andy Clarke is one of dozen or so people in the web industry whom I follow because what they say makes me either think and realize how much I don’t know yet or dig deeper and experiment on my own. So when his new book was released I had to get it.

Continue reading “Book review: Art Direction for the Web”

Austin Kleon has published another short book with a lot of hand-drawn doodles and blacked out newspapers. The timing of the release was from my point of view impeccable. Continue reading “Book review: Keep Going”

I’ve been getting news from not only the tech industry through Twitter for over a decade. I’ve got to know awesome people in the process. Now it’s time to stop using it as intensively. There are several reasons to cut the influence that wretched site has on my life. Here are four of mine.

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Last Thursday three recruiters messaged me. Two of them got a polite answer that what they have is not suited for me, the third one didn’t get an answer because it felt pointless.

Continue reading “Recruitment should NOT be a numbers game”

Writing code is political, designing is political. Our politics needs to improve the world, not destroy it.

Continue reading “Irregular Batch of Interesting Links #5”

Despite my dyslexia I like to read books although I prefer to smell the books more. A year has ended, so let’s look what I’ve read.

Continue reading “Dear Data #8: Books of 2018”