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A talk from the August 2024 Cyber Scotland Connect Meetup on practical techniques for reviewing code with security in mind.

Using the builder pattern in your tests can help reduce duplication while still helping you create very readable, specific tests.

A talk from NDC Security Oslo 2023 on eight practical questions to ask when reviewing code for security vulnerabilities.

A lightning talk from DevSecCon 2022 on reviewing code for security vulnerabilities.

Use git bisect to figure out when you broke the tests.

Whether reviewing a pull request or your own code, here are eight security questions to ask yourself every time.

Today I learned that you can neatly pack all the files in your git repository into a tarball, automatically excluding files in your gitignore

A talk from the September 2019 Tes Engineering Knowledge Sharing session on how to get started contributing to open source projects.

Good microservices have a clear purpose, but not all good microservices have a clear owner. Here is how to best manage shared services.

Fixing production bugs can be scary and overwhelming. Here are some tricks to help you stay calm and fix even the most terrifying production bug.

When faced with an unrealistic deadline, there's a choice to be made. Something's got to give. Here are three techniques to help.

When so much of the support process goes unnoticed, it's difficult to know where you could be saving time. Here are some questions to ask.

You don't need any AI at all to build applications that heal themselves. Here are four key patterns to get started.

Here are key factors to consider as you build tests that account for all of your cross-functional requirements.

Tired of your commits taking >10 seconds? Give this a bash.

Useful lessons I've learned over two years working without dedicated testers.

Testers tend to get themselves into unnecessary tangles as a result of how they create and maintain their test data. Here are five ways to keep things simple.

A microservices ecosystem pairs well with a more pragmatic approach to testing. Here are some practical tips for testing microservices.

Not sure whether your next feature needs a UI test? Here's a simple set of questions to help you decide.

A set of techniques that focus on fostering a keen awareness of what the actual issues are in production.

A talk from JavaScript in South Africa 2017 on building and running JavaScript microservices in production — the patterns that work and the chaos you have to manage.

I've seen teams get slowed down by their approach to testing. Here's how you can avoid that fate.

A talk from Agile Africa 2015 on emergent design — why building software incrementally produces better architecture than planning it all upfront.

Let's face it. All websites need CSS and yours is probably awful. Here's how to fix that.