• Mascot Memoirs — Sunderland 2 — Portsmouth 1

  Mascot Memoirs — Sunderland 2 — Portsmouth 1I have had a great weekend. For many reasons.1 — It was a looong weekend, I was off Friday and Monday 😊2 — I had a Daddy and Daughter day yesterday where we went to the farm and had a lovely day together 💕3 — The kids wanted to go out litter picking so we went yesterday together and they loved it ❤4 — Sunderland beat Portsmouth 2–1 ⚽5 — Finley got to be mascot and meet all the players and manager at Sunderland AFC for his birthday present 🎁In case you were wondering this post is going to be about numbers 4 and 5.Let’s talk about the big one, for Finley’s 8th birthday, my wife and I paid for him to be mascot for a game, for £170 you get 2 tickets to the game (1 for an adult and 1 for the mascot), a home kit, 10% off voucher for the stadium shop, autograph book, pen, bag and a program — which I didn’t think was too bad. Especially when compared to other clubs ( https://www.90min.com/posts/6264530-11-of-the-most-expensive-mascot-prices-charged-by-premier-league-clubs). We chose this game for a number of reasons, it’s always a big game against Portsmouth, we were away the other week for the first home game of the season against Oxford and with it being live on Sky meant we could record it and watch it back again and again and again as has proven the case!Finley had been mascot before, but away at AFC Wimbledon, which was a great experience for him, but this was his first time being mascot at Sunderland, so[…]

  20.08.2019 | 3:28 קרא עוד...

• 84: CircuitPython - Scott Shawcroft

  Adafruit enables beginners to make amazing hardware/software projects. With CircuitPython, these projects can now use Python. The combination of Python's ease of use and Adafruit's super cool hardware and a focus on a successful beginner experience makes learning to write code that controls hardware super fun. In this episode, Scott Shawcroft, the project lead, talks about the past, present, and future of CircuitPython, and discusses the focus on the beginner. We also discuss contributing to the project, testing CircuitPython, and many of the cool projects and hardware boards that can use CircuitPython, and Blinka, a library to allow you to use "CircuitPython APIs for non-CircuitPython versions of Python such as CPython on Linux and MicroPython," including Raspberry Pi.Special Guest: Scott Shawcroft.Sponsored By: Patreon Supporters: Help support the show with as little as $1 per month and be the first to know when new episodes come out. Links: CircuitPython Downloads — All the products that run CircuitPython Learning Guides with CircuitPython Loading CircuitPython on Circuit Playground Express Adafruit Discord Server Scott Shawcroft (@tannewt) / Twitter Adafruit-Blinka

  20.08.2019 | 2:00 קרא עוד...

• What becoming vegan taught me about software testing

  While I’ve been in the software testing industry for twenty years, I’ve only been vegan for a few years. Veganism is a movement around minimizing harm to our fellow human and non-human animals with compassion at its core, and I think of it as being built on three main pillars, viz. ethics, the environment, and health. I will discuss how being vegan has strong parallels with being a software tester in terms of the three pillars of veganism, the similar challenges involved in changing the mindsets of others – and also the need to frequently justify one’s own beliefs! Be prepared to learn something about veganism and maybe having some long-held assumptions challenged, but also expect to take away some ideas for changing hearts and minds in your life as a tester. Ethics At its heart, veganism is an ethical principle designed to reduce – to the greatest extent possible – the suffering we cause to other human and non-human animals. It is unfortunate that the movement is seen as “radical” or “militant” when it essentially asks nothing more of us than to not cause unnecessary suffering. It feels to me like the animal rights movement is on the rise, just as the human rights movement was through the 1800s and 1900s. With ethics being at the core of veganism, they also need to be at the core of software testing. Doing the right thing is the right thing to do and our job as testers often involves the relay[…]

  20.08.2019 | 1:55 קרא עוד...

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