Avindra Fernando

"Never give up" doesn’t mean doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting it to work.

When something fails, learn from it, make changes, and try again.

After all, repeating the same thing and expecting different results is... well, you know.

04.12.2024 02:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's almost 2025.

You can safely assume others can hear you and see your screen.

Don’t worry—if they can’t, they’ll let you know.

03.12.2024 17:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Link to Avindra Fernando's talk on "Lessons from E2E Testing Web Applications" at Django Con 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh0JvUBc09w&list=PL2NFhrDSOxgWqE_5w5CX2iUR7-P1D0ny7

My talk, "Lessons from E2E Testing Web Applications," from DjangoCon US 2024 is live! 🎉

In this talk, I share lessons I’ve learned over the years and pitfalls to avoid when working with E2E testing solutions like Playwright and Cypress.

Give it a listen!

13.11.2024 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🔥 🔥 🔥 My latest course "Architecting React Applications with Next.js" is live on Pluralsight.

This course will teach you to how to architect your React apps along with NextJs and the latest features like Server Components, Server-Side Rendering, Suspense and many more.

Course linked below.

08.11.2024 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I understand that we are trying to make loading screens creative and fun, but this seems odd to me.

What are your thoughts?

07.11.2024 21:35 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I understand that we are trying to make loading screens creative and fun, but this seems odd to me.

What are your thoughts?

07.11.2024 21:35 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

☹️ Not so clean code

ℹ️ Easy to write
ℹ️ Hard to read

😀 Clean code

ℹ️ Hard to write
ℹ️ Easy to read

01.05.2023 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A flyer from an internal meetup on API Testing.

💡 Make knowledge sharing easily accessible and fun. It will help a lot of people.

Found the flyer from one of the internal meetups. 👇

27.04.2023 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I worked with many exceptional folks who had a lot to share. But unfortunately most didn't get to hear their amazing ideas.

I spoke with management and got the approval to setup an internal meetup. We had great knowledge sharing sessions, we would have not had otherwise.

27.04.2023 15:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😕 "I don't have time to go to tech meetups" is a phrase I heard often from my work colleagues.

They cited two main reasons.

1️⃣ The meetups are not close to where they lived.
2️⃣ The meetups happen after work time.

🤔 So I thought, what if I bring the meetup to them?

27.04.2023 15:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

ℹ️Code Review guidelines I follow:

Authors:
✅ Check your work before you submit it.
✅ Keep it concise.
✅ Try not to take feedback personally.

Reviewers:
✅ Give constructive feedback.
✅ Be conscious of tone.
✅ Teach what you know, learn what you don’t know.

26.04.2023 19:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0