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Quite often, chatting about releases with people who are not familiar with the mobile SDLC, I notice that they struggle to understand the costs vs benefits balance of a solid mobile quality engineering setup. In fact, one of the most obvious differences between Mobile and Web releases is their different ability to absorb errors. The… Read more: Quality and release challenges in a mobile environment 

Last week, I shared some thought about the fact that any modern quality process that aims to deliver value in today software development should span across the whole SDLC. As a consequence, quality assessments and testing don’t happen only at the end of the development, but they are imbue into every single step of the… Read more: Quality Quadrants

I recently stumbled upon this tweet by James Clear: “Many problems are minor when you solve them right away, but grow into an enormous conflict when you let them linger. As a rule of thumb, fix it now.” This was given as a general advice and, in my experience, this applies very well to software bugs. My… Read more: Fix it now!

A few days ago I wrote about my terminal setup. I quickly discovered that this configuration shows up in a ugly way in VSCode: empty squares are displayed instead of the icons and the font spacing is completely messed up. Luckily enough, the fix is as easy as setting a proper unicode font. Go to… Read more: VSCode terminal prompt

Recently, I went through a computer replacement. While I appreciate the convenience of Migration Assistant, I prefer to start from scratch as it gives a chance to remove all the unused stuff that I manage to pile up on my disk over time. On the other hand, I lose all the nicely crafted customization in… Read more: Setting up a nice prompt with iTerm on MacOSX