What Happened Last Week - Issue #7

This week: better code, CI/CD at Slack, using Cypress and TestRail, OCR in JS and much more.

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What happened last week

Sorry, for being a day late this week, but the COVID booster just destroyed me completely.

This is my last week of resting before starting my new job at Kinsta. I really, can't wait to start.

I finally managed to connect the subdomain to Revue. It wasn't as simple as the documentation stated.

Interesting links

Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six — davidamos.dev

A great article from David Amos about how to write better and cleaner code. Again, it's not a surprise that it's better to write a readable than "magical".

Embracing Career Uncertainties with Moriel Schottlender, Principal System Architect at Wikimedia — www.youtube.com

Another amazing episode of The Dev Morning Show. This time with Moriel Schottlender, who is the Principal System Architect at Wikimedia. Wiki is one of my favorite projects on the internet, so I love learning what happens there behind the scenes.

A Look at Slack's New GitOps-Based Build Platform — thenewstack.io

A very interesting article showing what the Slack CI/CD process looks like. I didn't know they were using Jenkins.

How to automate tests with Cypress and TestRail — www.youtube.com

I had a chance to do a webinar together with Christian Dangl about testing and about test reporting. The whole part about TestRail is amazing.

Tesseract.js | Pure Javascript OCR for 100 Languages! — tesseract.projectnaptha.com

Things like this are just mindblowing. An OCR library in JS. WOW. And it really works great.

A No-Deploy Friday action — maciekpalmowski.dev

I wrote a small article showing how to prevent deployments on Friday. It's just a small bash oneliner, but it gets the job done.

And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button and share your thoughts.

Cheers,

Maciek