About me
I specialise in working with people: engineers, communities, and companies. I know how to facilitate and encourage people to work better, teams to form, deliver and grow, and companies to be more successful.
I began my career as a system administrator in 2001, managing networks and Active Directory. In 2004, I transitioned to web development, gained experience in Javascript, C#, and php, and started blogging on web-dev topics.
In 2007, I began leading teams. My passion lies in andragogy and mentorship, I have mentored over 40 developers and 25 engineering managers.
I am a quality enthusiast and believe that individuals should take pride in their work and companies should aim to produce quality products.
All my posts can be found on GitHub.
See my playlist on youtube or watch the latest talk here:
Blog posts
- On social loafing August 2024
- On teams and parasitism August 2024
- On the meaning of trust May 2024
- QA myth busting: QA slows work down August 2024
- On CrowdStrike July 2024
- On canary testing July 2024
- QA myth busting: Quality can be measured July 2024
- On quality circles June 2024
- A possible use case for AI: chaos testing June 2024
- How tools change our behaviour and relations May 2024
- How to prepping for an interview April 2024
- Hiring quality: Simplifying the interview process March 2024
- Hiring quality: designing the interview process March 2024
- Total Quality Management in software development and QA March 2024
- Measurements, metrics and unintended consequences February 2024
- Factors negatively affecting DEV/QA relationship February 2024
- Detrimental impact of organizational decisions on team dynamics February 2024
- Process activities reducing teams to groups January 2024
- Teams and groups: definitions and characteristics January 2024
- Worst beliefs to challenge January 2024
- Remote work ergonomics January 2024
- On models December 2023
- On engineers, managers and decision making December 2023
- On mistakes in learning December 2023
- CIA Sabotage manual and the IT December 2023
- Response to Mike Cohn on sprints December 2023
- Response to Bas Dijkstra on automation December 2023
- On gamification December 2023
- Quality is a social issue November 2023
- From pair testing to pair work November 2023
- On Zoom Fatigue November 2023
- What to do when people don't talk on daily scrum meetings? October 2023
- When dealing with complexity, we tend to add rather than subtract September 2023
- Stop doing code reviews and try these alternatives September 2023
- What is dogfooding and how does it impact software quality? September 2023
- On analogies September 2023
- On sunk cost value September 2023
- On regular 1-1s August 2023
- On AI influence August 2023
- On multitasking August 2023
- How the 5 whys method works in theory — and why it might not work in practice August 2023
- Mob programming: a better way to manage work August 2023
- Illusion of causality July 2023
- Software quality: the generalist vs the specialist July 2023
- QA, QC and Quality July 2023
- Hiring quality May 2023
- Turnover effect on quality May 2023
- A brief evaluation of ChatGPT-4 quality March 2023
- ChatGPT monetisation and ads / propaganda December 2022
- Mental sets effect December 2022
- AI effect on quality, or the epistemological crisis December 2023
- Individual performance reviews and quality October 2022
- management complexity and mob programming September 2022
- Quality and team size September 2022
- Knowledge overlap and quality September 2022
- Time pressure and quality September 2022
- Team processes and quality August 2022
- Information loss and quality August 2022
Archived blog posts
This is the old blog I had from 2005 till 2014:
- iOS javascript cookies persistence July 2014
- TLS mixed security content status June 2014
- few HTTPS issues with wildcard certificates May 2014
- iOS 7 minimal ui and smart app banners April 2014
- Android native browsers scrolling bug when gif animation is present March 2014
- iOS6 Safari "scroll to top" doesn’t work when -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch is set February 2014
- Opera Mini bug with an animated gif as a background January 2014
- Code comprehension performance and code style December 2013
- Opera Mini review October 2013
- proper iOS pull-to-refresh January 2013
- shaky lines drawing tool for browser and nodejs January 2013
- Opera Unite is dead October 2012
- Installing Opera Mini emulator locally October 2012
- iframe height auto-resize January 2012
- X-FRAME-OPTIONS January 2012
- small piece of js code explained January 2011
- Windows Phone 7 Internet Explorer IEMobile 7.0 March 2010
- Windows Phone 7 emulator, updates and app blacklist March 2010
- link-to-QRCode IE8 accelerator March 2010
- IE9 - sucks much less than other browsers March 2010
- critical IIS vulnerability December 2009
- HTTPBis group is awesome! December 2009
- Beanstalkapp, FogBugz and now Case Tracker November 2009
- Browsers' developer tools evolution November 2009
- HTTP persistent connections, pipelining and chunked encoding November 2009
- PHP loadHTMLFile and a html file without DOCTYPE November 2009
- HTML5 video tag and Internet Explorer June 2009
- Efficient IE version targeting June 2009
- Intel mini ITX D945GCLF2D motherboard June 2009
- Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS June 2009
- Opera revolution fail June 2009
- Opera to reinvent the web? June 2009
- Windows 7 will be shipped without IE8 in Europe? June 2009
- Useful JS tips - getBoundingClientRect() June 2009
- Firefox Build Your Own Browser – a poor copy of IEAK? June 2009
- Skype blocking 80 and 443 ports June 2009
- Apple submitted HTTP Live Streaming spec to IETF May 2009
- Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets May 2009
- IE8 news - MUI packs, compatibility view for intranet May 2009
- IE8 Rendering Modes theory and practice May 2009
- ITIL Conference May 2009
- Googletranslateclient.com and Windows Accelerator Platform May 2009
- Windows 7 taskbar - new approach May 2009
- Windows 7 Accelerators Platform May 2009
- Beanstalkapp and Fogbugz - free online bugtracking and version control May 2009
- HTML+CSS+JS Widgets - future cross-platform environment May 2009
- Hosting issues May 2009
- Various IE8 Accelerators - thepiratebay, php.net, pagerank, alexa April 2009
- designMode and Firefox April 2009
- startpanic.com and :visited links privacy issue April 2009
- HTTP Chunked Encoding April 2009
- Windows Live April 2009
- Weird bug with hiding columns in IE7 April 2009
- Windows Live Messenger adds removal April 2009
- Raphaёl – excellent JS vector graphics library April 2009
- Common Internet Scheme Syntax April 2009
- rel="canonical" April 2009
- IE8 - important update! April 2009
- Microsoft Exchange 2010 April 2009
- Synchronize posts drafts between laptop and home PC? Easy to do with Windows Live Sync! April 2009
- Silverlight smooth streaming and HTTP April 2009
- Embedded fonts April 2009
- Migrating live website December 2008
- Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 — new tests December 2008
- HTTP History Lists and Back Button June 2008
- data URI theory and practice May 2008
- data URI browser issues May 2008
- Some IE8b1 test results: March 2008
- Javascript on XHTML pages September 2006
- IE7, standalone, впечатления. August 2006
- Кэширование и сжатие: теория August 2006
- разные стили при js on/off August 2006
- Javascript Events July 2006