Author | Lightnews

Kylee Tilley ⚠️

@testingrequired.com

280 followers 660 following 1.1K posts

Rarely updated: testingrequired.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · Jul 2

I don't know who needs to hear this but tests can be wrong, even if they are passing.

1 1 3

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 20h

"React is too heavy for this non-reactive static HTML page I'm making 😡"

This complaint will always make me laugh.

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 1d

tweetdeck 😭 We need skeetdeck but I'm not googling that

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 1d

found an old dropbox account i forgot about. here's a picture of me and an ad agency guy i used to work with teaching carlton from fresh prince how tweetdeck worked (RIP tweetdeck)

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 1d

TFW you brought up a concern that was dismissed only to have the issue bite back hard

Well. Well. Well... If it isn't the issue I tried warning about...

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 1d

This is largely why I did poorly in school. It was like a drip feed of knowledge. I needed to consume a lot more a lot faster. The internet was a miracle for this. It's why I excelled at development stuff because I could learn as fast as I could consume.

a cartoon character is sitting at a table with a spoon in his mouth

Alt: Kirby sitting at a table sucking a non stop stream of food in to his mouth

media.tenor.com

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 1d

Confession: I love saying "I don't know" but I find myself saying less and less.

This isn't a flex at all, it's depressing 😅 Each new technology or pattern feels partially familiar already.

It almost feels like the amount of new things I need to consume to keep growing continues to grow.

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 2d

This post is my spirit animal

amos @fasterthanli.me · 2d

it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself

definitely a form of self-care

Reposted by Kylee Tilley ⚠️

dan @danabra.mov · 2d

great video by @t3.gg that explains this. thought about writing a post but maybe i don’t need to — it’s mostly all there

This is good, actually

YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg

youtu.be

2 8

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 2d

I love that Google search doesn't even pretend to care when suggesting searches as you type. I guess that makes sense with how garbage their search results have been.

Reposted by Kylee Tilley ⚠️

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · Sep 20

The level of test coverage a project will need* scales off essential and accidental complexity in a project. Exponentially.

2 1 1

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 2d

I don't think that's right LinkedIn...

Screenshot of the LinkedIn sidebar showing my last name twice

1 1

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 2d

I Got It Bad

YouTube video by Prick - Topic

youtu.be

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 2d

*this album

Hand crafted typos so you know I wrote it 😅

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 2d

Another banger on this. That thick synth pad over a wall of noise 😍

Other People

YouTube video by Prick - Topic

youtu.be

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 2d

You can't judge a book by its cover because this is goes hard. It somehow seamlessly it blends a lot of different genres with noise and industrial. You can hear Reznor's touch on the album.

Communiqué

YouTube video by Prick - Topic

youtu.be

2 1

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 3d

I broke in to the industry as a tester but I was a developer long before even thinking about testing. Lots of small side projects to learn but a lot tools that I used. A lot of those I developed to make my jobs easier.

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 3d

For context, at this point I had been writing code for 18 years as a hobby (I started young). 3 of those professionally as a software engineering consultant.

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 3d

Way back when I was working as a SDET, before that titled caught on, in an area with others that mostly did pure automation (selenium).

We were almost entirely silo'd since we handled different areas of the business and all had our own automation suites in separate repos. Nothing is standardized.

1 1

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 3d

I can't provide any context on this... yet!

a cartoon character named jake from adventure time with his mouth wide open

Alt: Jake from Adventure Time with his mouth open, surrounded by sparkles as he looks amazed

media.tenor.com

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 3d

It's amazing how often bugs stem from something doing too much or something happening that should be happening somewhere else. Core system design issues.

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 3d

How something SHOULD work isn't the same as having a story to actually implement that behavior 😅

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 3d

The loss of perfectly good technologies like mini stereo jacks and RSS feeds was the beginning of the end.

1 2

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · 3d

It's crazy how I haven't posted anything about looking for a new role but since I recently hit 6 months in my current role, I'm getting hit hard by recruiters.

Reposted by Kylee Tilley ⚠️

Bring Back Web Rings! @noahsussman.bsky.social · 4d

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time REMASTERED

🕓 🕑 🕛

Both posts collected in a single link. Downloadable PDF with a DOI number you can cite.

Non-paywall link:

infinite-undo.medium.com/falsehoods-p...

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time

This paper compiles two previously published posts.

infinite-undo.medium.com

2 1

Reposted by Kylee Tilley ⚠️

Kylee Tilley ⚠️ @testingrequired.com · Sep 12

Using Rust's unwrap

An emergency phone wrapped in a trashbag with a sign:

Emergency Phone Not Installed

Do not have an emergency at this location

1 1

Reposted by Kylee Tilley ⚠️

tweety fish oh no what a hideous terrifying chimera @sifu.tweety.fish · 4d

so there's sort of a paradoxical effect where (at least for a while) the more they SEEM like they can automate things away the more work they're actually making. You see this same thing with self-driving cars, in a sense /

2 2 71