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A collection of 6 issues

What's in a title?

Riffing off the sci-fi novel "Bowl of Heaven" with Husband, I was sad to find out the second book in the series was not "Spoon of Heaven," or "Weetabix of Heaven," because it would fit perfectly. We came up with some other novel titles

Travel lessons

Airplane travel Some day, you and your checked luggage will be parted. Maybe for a day, maybe forever. Have enough in carry-on that you can survive a day while you get replacements for the essentials. Medications go in carry-on bags. If you fly more than twice a year, do the

What NOT to say to your QA

It's a feature, not a bug. But why would you even do that? QAs are just failed developers. My code is perfect, I don't write bugs. You're not supposed to do that in the app. It's a design error, not a bug.

Your software project might have a QA if...

Some of these are mine, some I lifted from the company Slack channel for Quality Advocacy. * You're used to finding Cyrillic or Greek or Mandarin in the database * There's code in place to stop you copying War and Peace into the app multiple times * You know

Sh*t my QA says

There is a bug, I just haven't found it yet. Well, it's broken on my machine! In the Danish version of Windows, if you click really fast, the app just crashes. It doesn't work when I put Cyrillic text in. Or Greek, Hebrew, or

Unlucky Fried Kitten

It's been a long time since I put together a list for my humour section. I learned from the comedy courses at Writer's Village University that comedy writing is harder work than writing straight because you have to keep polishing the almost-funny parts until the almost

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