Bob Salmon
@BobTechThoughts
Ignorant code monkey. He / him. I like people, code and data. Mastodon: [email protected]
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[Blog] Is this a bug, a missing feature, or neither? Trying to answer this, or at least find better questions, with the aid of cars and cheesecake. randomtechthoughts.blog/2024/02/09/is-…
[Blog] Changing things (tariffs in smart meters, which side of the road people drive on, software versions) can be disruptive and risky. Blue/green is an approach to reduce the disruption and risk. randomtechthoughts.blog/2023/12/30/red…
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Reducing risk and disruption during migration using a blue/green approach
When a system needs to change from one version to the next, this can be disruptive and risky. One approach to reducing this disruption and risk is a via a blue/green approach. Changing …
[Blog] Modulo arithmetic crops up in time, music, and the limited amount of storage for numbers in computers and odometers. Programmers are wise to watch out for this before it bites. randomtechthoughts.blog/2023/09/17/mod…
[Blog] Just as code can be high or low quality, so can tests. One flavour of low quality is tests that don't pin the code down to have only the desired behaviour. randomtechthoughts.blog/2023/09/09/tes…
Trees can be a good way of storing information so that you can find it quickly. But if the tree gets unbalanced it heads towards being no better than a list. Fortunately there are ways to ensure that a tree remains balanced, such as 2-3-4 trees. randomtechthoughts.blog/2023/08/06/bal…
Sometimes the things presented to programmers as requirements are actually solutions. These can lead to assumptions and hidden disagreement. randomtechthoughts.blog/2023/06/17/bui…
The Ministry of Testing has kindly published something I wrote about reviewing requirements. I hope that testers and non-testers find it useful. ministryoftesting.com/articles/a6b37…
Laptops, like mammals, have a fight, flight or freeze response. To put my laptop into flight mode, I click on the right thing at the bottom of the screen. To get freeze, I just open enough browser tabs. To get fight, I try to get it to run my code.
One of the best/worst examples I've seen of a deceptive graph
So, this in-house CBC graphic is obviously misleading. The pink bar should be a huuuuuuge; dwarfing all others. But whoops; there's a quietly tiny grayscale tilda at the side to omit ... ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
When a hard stare isn't enough
I Photoshop paddington into a movie, game, TV show, or album until I forget: Day 754
Daughter: Would you like one of these vitamins? Me: I've already had my middle aged man vitamins, thanks. D: I wonder what would happen if someone who wasn't a middle aged man had one of those? M: Grow luxurious ear and nose hair and start liking 6 Music, I suppose.
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