Lee Jensen

Some people joke about AWS outages. Some offer virtual hugs (HugOps!).

But outages like this can cost real money and real reputation.

For Eight Sleep smart mattresses, they began to overheat and become locked into inclined positions at 2 AM!

Everyone wants great software. Few want to do what it takes to make it great.

Every user story, every feature, every integration — bugs live there.

“Good enough” is an excuse.
“No one will notice.” They do.

It depends. Senior tends to be hands-on.

After that: lead, staff, principle, etc, tends to be more mentoring, planning focused.

Or maybe I just need to better learn how to use social media. Shrugs.

It also seems like a lot of people went to LinkedIn to post. LI seems to be a lot of engagement, but they lack useful social media features. Do you post? Write articles? Use their newsletter feature?

Where are we supposed to be posting now to get engagement? Leads to conversation, connection?

When the bird site exodus happened, a lot of people came to Bluesky, especially in the tech space. But it feels like engagement is lacking here.

On Threads, tons of engagement. You have 500 chars to work with, when Bluesky is 300 chars.

It'd be better if Bluesky went to 500 chars per post.

Yippee skippy!

I feel alive! I feel unstoppable!

Let's go!

There's one thing missing: a job. I'm trying to find solutions for it, but it's difficult. I've overcome so many other difficulties so it's just one more thing.

No one cared when I got sick, so I expect no one to care that I'm a close to healed as I can be right now.

kermit the frog is standing behind a red curtain . ALT: kermit the frog is standing behind a red curtain .

After dealing with over a dozen very serious health challenges, disability, long recovery time, nearing ☠️...

I have to say: it feels good to feel alive! It's been a long time. This gif of Kermit is what I feel right now!

I rallied & protested at the Seattle Center! Now, seeing the videos from nationwide, I'm 🥹

Keep protesting. Keep protecting our freedoms & the Constitution! Stand strong & united against fascism!

No kings!
No tyrants!
No dictators!

As I'm building a software testing agency, I'm trying to build in public.

I'm looking at all things SEO to build it in from the start. When I scan the site using SEO scanners, I get a good score, so the fundamentals are there.

Software testing doesn't need to be a fright!
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🦇 Spooky season is great for horror films, thrillers, and haunted houses—just not your software.

QA Captain is here to de-spookify your software products before it scares your users away!

It’s 🕷️ spider season in Seattle. We are crawling with spiders this time of year—but your software shouldn’t be!

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I’m trying to do more each day to get a software testing & qa consultancy business setup. So, here’s to the new Bluesky account: @qacaptain.bsky.social

I'll likely be doing a lot of cross-posting.

In terms of software quality,

Simplicity scales, complexity kills.

I stand with @jimmykimmel.com

💙💚

I know my ethics, values, & morals. I stand for critical thinking & questioning everything in order to find truth.

I stand for human rights!

I've had to unfollow & block many accounts.

If anyone supports hate, it's an instant block. I don't have room in my life for hate, toxicity, manipulation, etc.

There is no nuance to hatred. It's not up for discussion. So many people are coerced into thinking bad is good & good is bad.

Prompt Engineer is like calling an air guitarist a musician!

Also, if I use an "&" symbol, there's an encoding issue. Once I save, then "&" is shown instead.

I can still save & I see the "success" message, just confusing to continue to see the "please review" msg & the "too long" error remain on the screen. The success msg eventually disappear, but those other error status stay on the page unless I nav away. Just confusing messaging.

Yes, a CR was used. I can duplicate that several times now with a CR, but not without a CR.

Also, if the "too long" error is shown but I fix the char count to be < 200, then this remains on the screen.

Hey @rosiesherry.com - small boundary value bug in MoT user profile.

When adding text into the about field, if I add 200 chars, error occurs:

"About is too long (maximum is 200 characters)"

Error should occur on 201 or > char count, not 200 exactly! 🫠

I wonder if this occurs on all fields?

Generally, has bluesky engagement tanked?

It seems to me that the engagement from the bird site has mostly moved to LinkedIn. Is that the place to be?

Tech Threads exist, but threads seems more like Twitter 2007 to me... filled with chaos goblins not community building.

I'm trying to do just that!

Who would turn down babka if you brought some to work?

The last five years for me has been like walking through fire to end up stuck, drowning in quicksand!

Chocolate babka

babka is so good! yum 😋
here's mine from a couple years ago!