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Experiment: Using Pest 4 as a Standalone Browser Testing Suite for Legacy Applications.

it's a post by myself, now I know you're thinking come on Dan don't be like that, but I had an itch that I had to scratch earlier in the week and played around with a small experiment and it worked - "Experiment: Using Pest 4 as a Standalone Browser Testing Suite for Legacy Applications." I'd love to know what you all think about this one -

More in the Flaky Test Chronicles

its Yunus Emre Deligöz with another three articles from his "Flaky test chronicles", I featured the first one in a previous top ten well it looks like he's been busy writing more articles for the series, I've linked to the first one here but you can find the rest on the blog -

Web Development is fun again

we have Mattias Geniar with "Web Development is fun again" In this post Mattias talks about how he's started to enjoy developing again thanks to using AI tools, the world of development moves so fast and keeping up with this ever evolving world is so difficult. as he mentions its making it harder and harder to have a deeper domain knowledge of all these new things especially if you were a solo dev -

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