Hands-on notes from 15 years in quality engineering.

Shift left is about moving quality earlier in the development cycle. Shift-left-left is about moving it earlier than that — into the culture, the conversations, and the mindset people bring to work every morning.

When an API project needs to change its data source without the customer noticing, unit tests are not enough. This is the story of how I built a custom comparison pipeline to close that gap — alone, incrementally, and with a little help from ChatGPT.

How I went from idea to working MVP in a single evening — and why the 90 minutes was the easy part.

A case study in teams that adopted Scrum by scheduling meetings — and quietly dropped the one that actually makes it work.

A case study in successful agile adoption — where the turning point was not the team understanding Scrum, but management finally leaving them alone for two weeks.

How to run Postman collections from the command line with Newman and wrap the output in a bash script that actually tells you what went wrong.

Every technology wave brings the same thing slightly faster than the technology itself: a course about it. An observation on momentum, monetisation, and what actually makes someone good at their job.