https://istqb-glossary.page - I got frustrated with the official ISTQB glossary page, so I made my own. Scraped their data via (terrible, terrible) search API, published it all as a hugo page. Nothing spectacular, but it serves a purpose. You can link to a specific term with relative ease, see available translations and synonyms, and if I come around to adding extra content (like youtube videos or articles explaining concept - see https://istqb-glossary.page/boundary-value-analysis/), then the page will morph into place for learning more about testing concepts - the glossary itself might be a little... dry.

All contributions are welcome, however we're working 2 fulltime jobs and care for a 3 yo in lockdown, so time to work on this project is a luxury.

I second that. It's stupid powerful, and costs only 20$ for lifetime licence.

wasn't there a crowd effort to make and mass 3d-print ventilators? I guess I've seen in couple of days ago on reddit

Would it be possible to make or print parts to enable a single ventilator support multiple patients?

A few studies suggest it could be done: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18164798 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16885402

Could be faster than building new ventilators.

You usually "tune" the ventilator parameters to each patient, so they'd have to be fairly similar size, need, etc.

Too much volume (or pressure, depending on the control mode) can injure the lungs, too little and you're not addressing the underlying problem very well.

Nice Project sp. z o.o. / Software Developer in Test (SDET) / Wrocław, Poland / Full-Time onsite

We (Nice Project sp. z o.o. - http://niceproject.eu) are currently building a team of test automation specialist to help our german customers with their automation needs.

Please note, that this is not a classical software tester position: the tests are currently mostly performed on customer's side, and your job will be to aid and guide the efforts related to more technical aspects of both functional and load/performance testing.

What will you be doing at this position:

- Execute, analyze and report already available performance test of complex, modular application for print shops. - Continue automation (in Python) of any not yet automated test steps - Be involved in determining the right direction for ongoing load testing efforts, and creation of completely new load testing scenarios

Additional objectives that may be relevant to future activities:

- Help with automation efforts using Ranorex, Robot Framework and/or Selenium based solutions - Be involved in testing activities in projects undertaken by Nice Project

We are looking to hire 2 team members on medium to senior level.

English language is required (duh), German language is required on at least reading comprehension level.

What else: - Small team (we're just getting started) where your voice will be heard - Interesting projects in a complex domain - Flexible working hours, home office, part-time models - Domain specific trainings - We plan to provide further language lessons for our team members to improve their German language even more

www.niceproject.eu

To apply, fill out the form: https://forms.gle/TvQjWdao5mRFK66c6

Thanks for asking. I am fine. I've recently changed jobs and now I work from home with occasional travel - and even though it's strenuous, it's much more comfortable. I have flexible hours, fixed pay every month, paid vacations (oh thank gods yes). My kid is gradually getting more social with us (he's almost 3), and spending time with him brings us great joy. We're all healthy, we invest time into our relationship, we do our best to sleep much, exercise, eat well, and it seems to be paying off, which is great, because this time last year we were getting ready to move across border, and soon before the move, we've had a serious health crisis (my wife was hospitalized for 10 day, and got out exactly on the day of the move).

What could be better? Well plenty, of course.

We could be saving money for our own place faster. But we partially use it to enjoy day to day and treat ourselves. I consider it money well spent, regardless of my wife's guilt feeling. We could be spending even more time together. But this is mostly because my wife is currently learning python programming and software testing in order to get back to job hunt. It was a conscious decisions, and her weekend school ends in a couple of weeks anyway. We could be spending more time with our friends. But we're all busy people, and we try to be understanding that it's difficult to find good timeslots.

So, it's all temporary hurdles, not really hardships.

My next comment as a QA: "I told you so"

God, the many times I had told them so months before difficult situations arrived, just to be swiftly ignored by business because some devs didn't want to bother, and wanted to get to more shiny and fancy and interesting problems.

This is such an amazing feature. I wish it got picked up by other major languages and became a standard practice.

Great stuff. But what about alternative python interpreters that have been lagging behind? Jython is 2.7.1 and IronPython is 2.7.9

They are effectively both dead or moribund. Jython has had a py3 experimental branch for ages but the entire project is basically starved of money and effort.

To be honest, the whole “Python on other runtimes” movement, as a concept, is more or less over. It’s just too much effort for too little reward, now that CPython has good libraries for pretty much anything you can think of.

Does that view include PyPy? I'm not deep into Python (aside from the Monty kind) but it seems to be maintained and makes performance claims.

PyPy is a python-focused project that builds a python-focused runtime. My comment was more about projects trying to retrofit Python on top of runtimes that were built for very different languages, typically because of some constraint that has now disappeared.

The GIL constraint has not.

If the GIL is so important to you that you're willing to suffer the pain of running on another VM with a much-reduced ecosystem, while at the same time having requirements so complex that PyPy cannot meet them, maybe Python is just not the right tool for the project.

Moved the goalposts.

IronPython is a dead project at this point…

Well, he's... he's, ah... probably pining for the fjords.

For the JVM, there has been some work on new interpreters for Python 3 based on GraalVM. Unfortunately none seem production-ready at the moment.

Ha! My boy (almost 3) may be playing with his legos for whole afternoon, but the moment I peek in the general direction of my laptop, he wants to bang on the keyboard. Not any keyboard (tried that), but my keyboard specifically.

And when it comes to "it depends on the kid", oh dear. I try to practice stoicism whenever I remember about it, and logically I try to remember that I should be grateful for his fussiness and rebelliousness, since they give me occasions to practice my stoicism. But it sure does feel a bit like stockholm syndrome sometimes.

OK, so the main takeaway for me for example would be that if I want write lambdas in Go (because it's awesome), then GCP would be better choice for me.

But anyway, I'm not too current when it comes to lambdas. Are they compiled everytime when cold started, or is a compiled binary stored in some sort of image?

They are compiled during the deploy process, with the binary or code + deps (for JS etc) stored on S3 and loaded on demand. This counts as part of the cold boot time.