I'm Henry, a software engineer based in Malmö, Sweden. I'm a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility, a union organiser, and I'm still not planning any nuclear attacks.
It's coming up on the tenth anniversary of the release of my infamous global thermonuclear war game. It's been offline for longer than it was ever online now. I want to get the story of this thing and its general context in my life & career written down and posted in time for the ten year milestone, so here it is.
Reducing end-to-end test flakiness in a real-world open source app.
This time I think I've got it as close to perfect as I can.
Syncing devtools across multiple machines is a solved problem at long last.
Worth bookmarking just for the bundle open gem tip. But also full of other little bits of wisdom.
The obvious benefit of a test is to make sure that the code still works after making a change. However, another hidden benefit is that a test can help us get familiar with the codebase quickly. You can execute the code without launching the application in the browser or running the complete program.
This is an underrated upside of having lots of unit tests and it's an onboarding hack I use a lot myself for learning new codebases quickly.
