Working remotely

Four years ago today, we adopted Suki! 🐶❤️ It looks like she’s been a Dodgers fan the whole time.

Pandy’s First Labubu

Oh snap, I'm an AI guy now.

The Testing Pyramid is outdated. 🚫 Modern tools demand a new model: the Testing Skyscraper! 🏙️ It’s flexible, scalable, and better fits today’s testing strategies. Read why I’m leaving the pyramid scheme: automationpanda.com/2025/09/29/t...

Chun Yang came to the Triangle! 🇹🇼 🧋

Bored on a plane? Coloring book! 📖

Disneyland!

Angels game at #STARWEST2025

I’m over here fixing a Bug, WYD? Check out the whole story: youtu.be/91KavktSHmw?...

Derpy Tiger is the best

Reverse camera install! Making a 20-year-old car feel new.

New dance studio accent walls. I got them hard blue collar skills. Just in case the AI takes all the software jobs.

All I did was code this week with AI assistance (Cursor). I’ve never been so productive. I’ve never made web apps look so good. And it’s _addictive_. I couldn’t stop. I couldn’t think about much of anything else. I did the bare minimum for house chores and other tasks.

My words are my instructions. AI is my compiler. All code is my assembly.

I just converted 43K lines of JSON specs to 7K of different YAML spec with AI so AMA

2 years at Cycle Labs today!

Join us next week on Tuesday at 8:00pm CST for our Monthly Meetup as our best good friend @automationpanda.bsky.social presents his talk Scaling Automated Tests to Infinity and Beyond! We'll be streaming live in our Discord Server! Info below ⬇️

Back in May, the rear subframe on my car broke while driving on the highway. It turned out to be a common product defect. I fixed it myself, but dang, it was a journey. Here's the story: automationpanda.com/2025/07/24/m...

There’s a copperhead hanging out on my porch tonight. 🐍

My dog Suki had airway correction surgery last week to help improve her breathing. She is doing okay in recovery. Please pray that she recovers expediently and that she won’t struggle to breathe anymore. ❤️‍🩹 🐶

Train ride to Baltimore today! #DevOpsDaysBaltimore tote is perfect for carrying lunch. 🦀

Nothing teaches patience like waiting for car parts.

Successful PM-ing: I vibe coded a prototype this afternoon for a new product idea. It’s ready to demo for feedback. Rapid results! 💥

Pet the dog 🐶 so fluffy!

Chicago

DevOpsDays Baltimore 2025! 🦀

This past weekend, I sold my VW Karmann Ghia convertible. I’m thankful for all the memories and the experience I gained. It’s going to become a father-and-son project car.

This morning, I vibe coded a Jinja2 template for an HTML page with CSS styling. Dynamic data injected as well. In the past, it would take me hours to tweak things and still never be quite right. Today, it took about 20 minutes to go from zero to beautiful. Thanks Cursor!

What's going on with Boa Constrictor, the .NET Screenplay Pattern? Here's a brief article giving project updates: automationpanda.com/2025/05/04/b...

Is this vibe coding?

If you can describe it, then you can do it!

This morning, I recorded a half-hour video for an upcoming conference. It turned out that the recording used the wrong microphone. The audio quality was terrible. I had to re-record the whole thing. 🫠🫠🫠

Testing is one of the great disciplines within software. It bears complexity, richness, & *beauty*. Today at @pytexas.org, I taught how to build a test framework from scratch– and why you shouldn't do it. Just use @pytestdotorg. But, it's still important to learn testing principles.

New article! Fun article. Here are 5 dev hacks to make your software work life better. automationpanda.com/2025/04/12/5...

“Get stuck. Then get unstuck. Then get better.” Heather Crawford at @pytexas.org

Welcome back, old friend.

Party time at #pytexas!

Rough week: 🔵 I’m recovering from pneumonia. 🔵 My dog went to the emergency clinic. 🔵 I had to miss a big part of a trip to Texas.

Today on our Speaker 📣 Spotlight 💡 we're highlighting @automationpanda.bsky.social who will be presenting Building a Test Framework From Scratch (Or Not)! Join us April 12 either in-person or virtually to watch. Get your ticket today pytexas.org/2025

I fixed DNS for my wife’s biz website and now I’m a hero AMA

It’s been a long week.

Weekend Warrior

I missed this baby dog so much! 🐶 ❤️

I’m back home. Office hours resume tomorrow.

Pretty cool news about TypeScript. Also cool to see Playwright included in the “how much faster” stats table. devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

Montreux 🇨🇭

Today, I visited the Reformation Wall in Geneva, Switzerland. I owe much to the resilient faith of the men and women represented here. POST TENEBRAS LUX SOLI DEO GLORIA

Picasso

Suki was sad to see us leave for Europe.