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This is a list of content I posted to, or found useful, on Twitter. And stuff I posted to Patreon.<a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/24389995">Back to Index of all monthly summaries</a>This month's highlight (for me) has to be that I released a new book <a href="https://therearehats.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">There Are Hats</a>Twitter February 2021<ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1365267652004962313" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">I will be speaking at SauceCon 2021</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1365179936361902080" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sign up for a free secure coding Virtual Summit on 24th March</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/jetbrains/intellij-samples" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Github repo for IntelliJ IDEA Samples for Tips and Tricks, Features, etc.</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1362704980004732933" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Challenge the Sensei Java Quiz</a> and associated <a href="https://github.com/SecureCodeWarrior/challenge-the-sensei" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Github Repo</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.securecodewarrior.com/blog/running-intellij-inspections-from-continuous-integration?pk_source=contentsyndication&amp;pk_medium=eviltester&amp;pk_campaign=sensei_devrel&amp;pk_content=intellij-commandline" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Running IntelliJ Inspections from the Command Line and with CI</a></li> <li><a href="https://socialsharepreview.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Tool for helping test Social Share Previews</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.securecodewarrior.com/blog/java-gotchas-bitwise-vs-boolean-operators?pk_source=contentsyndication&amp;pk_medium=eviltester&amp;pk_campaign=sensei_devrel&amp;pk_content=java-gotchas-bitwise" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Java Gotchas when to use &amp; and when to use &amp;&amp;</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2021/02/java-annotated-monthly-february-2021/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">February Java Annotated Monthly</a></li> <li><a href="https://aaronbedra.com/post/securing_security_software/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Applying Software Security to Security Software</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Profile of Claude Shannon</a></li> <li><a href="https://devops.com/the-chaos-mindset-teaching-your-code-to-cope/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Overview of Chaos Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/an-exploratory-analysis-on-7-decades-of-space-exploration-data-f0f2b78a6bb2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">An Exploratory Data Analysis</a></li> <li><a href="http://usingcsp.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Read Communicating Sequential Processes Online for Free</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.securecodewarrior.com/blog/what-is-static-analysis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">What is Static Analysis?</a></li></ul><h3>Blog Posts For February 2021</h3><ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2021/02/13-poetry-and-software-testing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Poetry and Software Testing</a></li></ul>Some poets and non-poets who wrote poetry that have inspired my Software Testing.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2021/02/20-junit-test-for-testers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Can we use JUnit and TDD for Testing?</a></li></ul>Can we use JUnit and TDD for Testing? Yes we can. Tooling and approaches are not limited to subset of coding.<ul> <li><a href="https://eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2021/02/xx-learning-automating" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Learn Test Automation By Taking Short Practical Steps</a></li></ul>How do you handle the cognitive overload from trying to learn automating and every job wants commercial experience what do you do.<h3>Patreon Posts For February 2021</h3><ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/best-practices-48288597">Best Practices are Social Constructs</a></li></ul>Coding habits are Socially Constructed. Fit for a specific context. But which we should be ready to adapt.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/risk-based-and-48241840">Risk Based Prioritisation and Decision Making</a></li></ul>Risk...What if? Impact... so what?<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/best-things-for-48193070">Best things about writing software for yourself</a></li></ul>Responsive Team. Focus on Value. Close Collaboration. Minimum Implementation.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/offering-to-48045338">Offering solutions to objections</a></li></ul>don't give me problems, give me solutions<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/modelling-48003064">Modelling the problem</a></li></ul>Model the problem before hunting for a tooling solution.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/creating-simple-47957517">Creating a simple API server using AppScript</a></li></ul>A quick overview of creating a simple API server from a Google Spreadsheet and a little AppScript.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/your-personal-47913789">Your Personal Professional Branding Audit</a></li></ul>A little social media profile review exercise.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/another-year-47880079">Another Year, Another Experiment</a></li></ul>Experimental patreon benefit for the micro-courses.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/i-we-you-them-47749151">I, We, You, Them</a></li></ul>I saw a report written by a consultant today. And it used a pattern that I am always very conscious to avoid.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/aim-for-flow-not-47715308">Aim for flow, not self-edited perfection</a></li></ul>Discussion of a useful skill to practice.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/management-47680372">Management Communication Dangers</a></li></ul>Some notes on communicating as a manager.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-goal-setting-47636603">On Goal Setting</a></li></ul>Goal Setting can be presented in an incredibly complicated manner, and that's why a lot of management books are written. Let's simplify it.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/learning-47589992">Learning Management</a></li></ul>most of us manage at a lower and and more human level.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-unit-47462487">Reading Unit Tests</a></li></ul>A lesson I learned about reading code.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/publish-what-you-47418688">Publish what you create</a></li></ul>It has never been easier to publish stuff on your own. Don't let anything stop you.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-is-best-way-47375205">What is the best way to write a defect report?</a></li></ul>Tips and lessons learned for writing defect reports.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/testing-lessons-47331012">Testing Lessons from Self-publishing</a></li></ul>I don't know any process that better illustrates how blind we can become to problems which exist, when we already face problems.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/testing-careers-47290266">Testing Careers of Excellence</a></li></ul>Be the best version of you, as a tester, that you can be.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/content-summary-47235433">Content Summary for January 2021</a></li></ul>Content Summary for January 2021<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/january-2021-47235390">January 2021 Collated PDFs</a></li></ul>Monthly PDF collated pdfs Jan 2021<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/anger-is-energy-47164852">Anger is an Energy revisited</a></li></ul>An energy that can move under your control.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/easy-ways-to-add-47119516">Easy ways to add Security into your Process</a></li></ul>If we try to perform security testing, the same way that hackers do, we are likely to spend a lot of time and effort and find nothing.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/its-not-test-47076873">It's not a test tool</a></li></ul>Abstractions can lead to heresy because common arguments and positions are harder to adopt.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/thats-bug-just-47029139">That's a bug just waiting to happen</a></li></ul>Abstractions that you do not control can make life hard if you have tightly coupled to them.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/communicating-46861895">Communicating Sequential Processes - a brief reading</a></li></ul>You can read the pdf online, and there is a lot of value to pull from the text.

This is a list of content I posted to, or found useful, on Twitter. And stuff I posted to Patreon in February 2021

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