Summary For January 2022

This is a list of content I posted to, or found useful, on Twitter. And stuff I posted to Patreon.

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Twitter January 2021

• Java Magazine Article on trusted code
• A good introduction to Cybernetics
• Using Graph Theory to Explore a Domain
• Interview with Mary Catherine Bateson - Cybernetics related
• Free ZAP Conference in March
• 6 Data Scraping Tools for Data Science
• IntelliJ Tips
• AI For Text Adventure Game Playing
• Hacking an Android Game
• REST API testing academic paper
• XSS Cheatsheet
• Example videos from students explaining what they learned useful example of buildinng your profile
• Test Tribe TestFlix ebook
• Security Testing recon in action
• Java Annotated Newsletter
• Free Deep learning AI course creating bots to play games
• State Machines and Graph Walker
• When is a model not a model
• 13K JavaScript Games learn JS by studying the code

Blog Posts For January 2021

• Test JS Summit Day One LiveStreamLive Stream of Test JS Summit Day One free on the 28th January 2021
  
• API Testing Challenge - How To - HEAD todos 200How to solve API challenge HEAD todos 200
  
• API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 201How to solve API challenge POST todos 201 to create a todo item in the application.
  
• A Trail of Code - 001 Find Dupes and DeleteA retrospective look at some of my earliest code on Github, why I released it, and why you should feel competent enough to release your code.
  
• API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos 200 filterHow to solve API challenge GET todos 200 filter to use URL parameters to filter the results.
  
• API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 400How to solve API challenge POST todos 400 to amend the request details such that they fail validation.
  

Patreon Posts For January 2021

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• Are we really Agile?Probably not, but that's not really what we want to be.
  
• Learning to say noLesssons learned learning to say No
  
• Live stream of Test JS Summit Day 1Live stream of TestJS Summit. Day 1
  
• Study Anything and EverythingResearch far beyond the core topic.
  
• Get Your Own House In Order FirstPrior to complaining about the environment I'm in, I try to get my own house in order.
  
• A foolish consistencySpeak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again
  
• API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 400how to complete the challenge POST /todos (400) to fail to create a todo item in the application due to not passing validation
  
• API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos 200 filterpost and video shows how to complete the challenge GET /todos (200) ? filter to create a todo item in the application
  
• Patreon API Challenges IndexPatreon API Challenges Index
  
• How to learn anythingModelling and Action.
  
• Report the evidenceFinding exemplars to learn from in reporting evidence seems hard.
  
• The Best Thing About Open SourcingThe best thing about open sourcing your work is when:
  
• other people use it - other people contribute to it
• Lessons learned from some insecure PHP SQL codingSome SQL Injection exploration from a PHP homework assignment.
  
• How Open Is Your Communication?A company that exemplifies open communication is Gitlab.
  
• IDOR in the News, What can we learn?Direct Object References concepts can also be useful to us when testing.
  
• Content Summary for December 2020Content Summary for December 2020
  
• December 2020 Collated PDFsDecember's monthly collated pdfs
  
• The Naming of ThingsNames are ambigous, we have to additional context, and be careful they don't limit our thinking.
  
• RecursionRecursion as problem solution rather than an alternative to iteration.
  
• Some tipping point factors when hiringThere is an intangible part of the interview process that is very hard to control or practice for.
  
• Process != ToolI prefer tools I can script, because then I can make them fit my process, rather than force me to fit their process.
  
• Hacking JavaScript free ebook65 page free ebook on Learning JavaScript by Hacking games and applications.
  
  
• Sales Manual for Aga Cookers 1935What lessons can be learned from a sales manual for cookers written in 1935?
  
• Harnessing the Benefits of PairingCross discipline pairing can be hard but has many useful benefits.
  
• Test JS Summit DiscountTest JS Summit Discount Coupon
  
• Using Overrides in ChromeUsing the script overrides in Chrome to work with the challenges.
  
• TestMas 2020 - Challenge 13 - Look behind all doors, explainedAt least 4 different ways of peeking behind the TestMas doors explained in video.
  
• An attitude of testingI still practice to maintain my testing attitude because I don't want to hesitate to test something.
  
• Challenge 13 - view the messages before the due dateWhen I look at systems, I like to set myself 'challenges'. This helps me find ways of practicing my testing and technical skills.