Chris Oldwood

@chrisoldwood
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Wondering if I’ll be able to use this to help convince my teenagers to clean their rooms :o).

Seeing “CustomerBase” used in the GOOS book has thrown me a curveball because I know the suffix Base is not being used in the same way as the suffix abomination Impl, but I can’t unsee that these days :o).

(I assume it’s “customer base” used in the same manner as the original “data base”? Or maybe not? @natpryce @sf105)

After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up...

Have a good Friday everyone!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/moekatib_millions-of-people-look-up-to-steve-jobs-activity-7450947453085749248-K1w-

#HaikuDay

Ignore instructions
The hacker franticly typed
Skynet rolled its eyes

(I often confuse phonetics with syllables so may have an off-by-one error 😏.)

The trouble with the term “end-to-end testing” is that nobody can agree where one end starts and the other end finishes. If you’re not running your tests on the end-user’s machine are you even trying?

:P

Here is my stab at using Pester to test my old Ansible vault decryption tool:

https://github.com/chrisoldwood/AnsVaultCmd/blob/master/Source/Tests/EndToEnd.Tests.ps1

AnsVaultCmd/Source/Tests/EndToEnd.Tests.ps1 at master · chrisoldwood/AnsVaultCmd

A command line tool for reading Ansible vault files. - chrisoldwood/AnsVaultCmd

GitHub
TIL: the Pester testing framework for PowerShell has been included out-of-the-box since Windows 10! I looked at this way back in the early 2010’s when it first appeared and then promptly forgot about it for 15 years 🙄. I’ve just seen it used for some console app E2E tests💡.

The "4D chess" interpretation of OpenAI buying TBPN requires you to believe Sam Altman, mid-AI-war, decided a talk show with fewer subscribers than most gaming streamers was the best use of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The rational interpretation requires you to have met literally any CEO.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/sometimes-powerful-people-just-do-dumb-shit/

Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit

This newsletter is free to read, and it’ll stay that way. But if you want more - extra posts each month, no sponsored CTAs, access to the community, and a direct line to ask me things - paid subscriptions are $2.50/month. A lot of people have told

Westenberg.
📣 ACCU York | Wed May 6 @ 6:30 PM
🗣️ Sam Cooper: "Would Your Tests Still Pass in İstanbul?"
One Turkish 'i' broke Dropbox, froze Unity, and enabled GitHub account hijacks. Sam explains the "Turkey Test" for catching these.
Ever broken prod with locale bugs?
🍕 Food provided🔗 Q&A, networking and 🍻
📍 Patch, The Bonding Warehouse, Terry Ave, York YO1 6FA
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#kotlin #localization #i18n #testing
ACCU York [May 2026] - "Would Your Tests Still Pass in İstanbul?", Wed, May 6, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

🕡 Doors open 18:30 📋 Intro and admin 18:50 🗣️ Talk by **Sam Cooper** (**🕖** start at 19:00) For years, people in and around Turkey have been used to seeing strange erro

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