Infrequent musings
A common problem when building modern websites with searches, content recommendations and personalisation is that standard unit and integration testing can fairly easily show if the site is working, functionally, but its much harder to show if these complex content structures return content as expected by the user, as that require an understanding of what the user is expecting and a semantic…
I see that a lot of my fellow white dudes in tech enjoy biking - so let’s use that analogy to talk about diversity, power dynamics and understanding why marginalized groups are wary of us as a group. As a biker in Berlin I am constantly wary of the cars around me - they take up the majority of space on the road, they can hurt me easily and are completely oblivious to that fact. I’ve had many…
Last week it finally became public knowledge that the Swedish equity fund Monterro is buying a majority stake in Umbraco, for me it marks an end of a 10 year journey with Umbraco, which I left 3 years ago, but didn’t really process before the sale negotiations started earlier this year. On a rainy, grey day, back in 2007 I travelled to a dull office building outside Nyborg, the former site of the…
One of the Zalando Open Source Teams responsibilities is to ensure that our use of Github is Compliant and accesible to our engineering teams. One way to ensure this is to build tooling and automation which supports our compliance rules. Probot is an excellent framework for building Github bots, but it’s been challenging to figure our how to monitor activities in the bot and debug it with VS codes…