Find it still difficult to get used to the Mac Os Tahoe UI - after several weeks. Strangely enough, the high contrast accessibility feature does help me to cope with this abomination of a design

When 'Devoops' isn't even a typo 😅

"Turn it off and on again" is the most powerful tool in IT support. The art of the trade is knowing what should actually be restarted.

Software code should be simple and do clever things rather than the other way around

Grafana. Over time, I'm finding it more and more difficult to find my way in performing basic tasks like copying a dashboard 😅

Should really invest into promoting [lokito](github.com/mgurov/lokito) - a simple alternative/compliment to grafana for treating loki logs as a mailbox

with non-trivial questions offloaded to AI prompts, duck-duck-go has suddenly become a viable alternative to google for me 🤔

TIL: github pages do work with git-lfs.com - with the custom actions workflow + `with lfs: true` of the actions/checkout@v4.

Mocking libraries are great. The widespread abuse of them isn't. That's the one of two major reasons the dev testing is often bad nowadays, IMO. Time to revisit a talk idea mgurov.github.io/talks/mockle...

14 May, Nieuwegein. Me and @jpjwolli.bsky.social will reveal the fallacies of the modern enterprise test setup: the fakes of the unit testing, staging environments and the testing pyramid in general. Salvation? Playwright to demo an alternative www.testnet.org/evenement/en...

So many ideas for more swift merge/pull request reviews..

Kotlin DSL for tests, fun and profit - Vienna edition soon at www.meetup.com/kotlin-vienn...

Moved my [homepage](mgurov.github.io) to Astro.build ; If only I were spending nearly as much time on actually producing any useful content 🙈

🚨 80% of the remains of Ukrainians returned from Russian captivity deisplay signs of torture, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs, per Hromadske.

A non-exhaustive list of Ukrainian developers and IT specialists who were unfortunately killed by russians during the war dou.ua/memorial/ (English version available)

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

I love @react.dev, but there are two things that make me real sad. The first, and the biggest, is this nasty push via docs to use complicated frameworks like nest.js, for often much simpler setups would be more than enough. Especially for the beginners. This: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzl7...

Good read on @playwright.dev hygiene: medium.com/@samuel.sper...

A little piece of uncommon knowledge: a reason the U.S got entangled in the Vietnam War, was that during McCarthyism all the East-Asia experts were purged from the state department. Which gives you an idea of what long-term damage the purging of highly qualified people from government can do.

After months away from IntelliJ for front-end work, back for some Kotlin back-end... And it feels broken. Small things here and there, but surprising feeling especially after coming from vs.code

It was much fun to talk on meetups again, after quite some pause. Enjoyed the vibes of vienna.js much - will definitely be back again.

Not to sound alarmistic, but to keep an eye

Don't really have any New Year's resolutions, just preparing for things to be just as bad or worse.

> note that unlike the test automation pyramid, I’m leaving the scope or size of the test by itself out of the equation. E2E tests can be more efficient or less efficient, and the information produced by these tests can be more valuable or less valuable. via www.ontestautomation.com/the-test-aut...

Good to have the bluesky app for iOs. the same app on mac is a bit uninspiring.