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“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion, and the last.”

— Samuel Johnson

How I Manage My Health While Working in Tech

Mar 23, 20219 min read

Most tech jobs are extremely sedentary. Office work, in general, is this way. As a software engineer, it's easy to spend up to 12 hours a day sitting at a computer, all the while snacking on comfort foods. This amount of sitting can take a serious to...

Month 1 as an SDET: 5 Lessons Learned

Mar 23, 20219 min read

For those who don't know, an SDET is a Software Development Engineer in Test. Depending on where you work, that can mean different things. At my job, the role is about the automation of regression testing within QA. The primary purpose of this work i...

How to build a simple Ruby Calculator app with RSpec tests using TDD

Mar 21, 202111 min read

Why I Built This Project Recently at work, I was promoted to a hybrid SDET/functional QA role. Hooray!! Leading up to this promotion, I did a lot of preparation work. I wanted to do automation QA stuff, but I didn't like the idea of having to learn e...

5 Actions You Can Take to Crush Your Tech Career Goals

Jan 5, 202111 min read

Nobody wants to be bad at their job. Most people aren't, but most aren't excellent even when they could be with just a few small changes. Why hold yourself back just because you want to stay in your comfort zone? Here are 10 actions I've taken that h...

Why You Should Give Up on Self-Acceptance

Jan 3, 20215 min read

Self-acceptance is something we're all told will make us happy. If we could only come to terms with ourselves and all our faults, we could stop being so stressed out and our lives would be easier. This is all well and good, and people should strive t...

Investing in Quality: My 2020 Journey

Jan 2, 202118 min read

I rolled into 2020 like anyone else, with hopes and dreams for what I'd accomplish, the places I'd go, the habits I'd kick, the habits I'd start. I didn't watch the news much so COVID really snuck up on me. Before I knew it, I wasn't coming to the Ma...

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