#Advent of code
Last week I forgot to mention that I started solving the Advent of Code challenges. This is my first year, so I don’t even try to have elegant solutions. Old trusty Python, lists’ and dicts’ galore.
The reason is simple: the goal is to go through all 25 days. Being consistent is not easy, and today I had to solve two days because of yesterday’s Christmas party.
#NGINX
The news about police raids in NGINX office is at the same time surprising and not. Before there were VKontakte and Euroset; for some reason being honestly successful is not allowed in Russia.
#APIs
Tom Johnson released a podcast with Arnaud Lauret. Even though it’s a tech writing perspective, I strongly recommend testers to check it out. Laments about not being able to influence design are fun to hear: it’s almost like Agile, DevOps, WhatNotOps missed out tech writers.
Also, I found two interesting API related newsletters: “API Developer Weekly” and“Net API Notes”. If you look at the signup page for the first one, I bet you will notice that it doesn’t mention testers. I wonder, is it because their team follows MT-like approach and includes testers into dev set? Hope so.