Ivan Karaman

Human, tester, content creator. Also known as ivanAndCode ;)
Views are my own.

[Suganthan Mohanadasan @suganthan]

What 🫣🫣

https://t.co/Op6eF5Ke5E

What a time to be alive man….

[Michael de By @MichaeldeBy]

Bad sound is my one complaint with every non-Apple laptop I have owned. A MacBook sounds good because Apple measured its speakers and tuned the DSP; on Linux you get the raw drivers. My @slimbook Executive 14 is a lovely machine, but its speakers are no exception to the rule.

This is what one press in @OmarchyLinux does to them. The Speaker Calibrator plugin makes it sound better in one minute.

It plays sweeps, listens through a microphone (the built-in ones work, a cheap USB measuring mic is better), fits a protective parametric EQ and installs it as a PipeWire filter chain. Optional deep bass from bankstown, the Asahi Linux bass enhancer. Everything runs from the bar panel.

What you hear is the room, recorded through the measuring mic where I sit. The off/on switch is level matched, so nothing gets louder, only the tone changes.

@dhh and @SpencerGBull, you tuned the XPS 14 by hand and by ear. Challenge: run this on it and tell me how it compares.

https://t.co/nLGGtH5aBi

Source: https://t.co/dk6InMZq9P

[timour kosters @timourxyz]

"GPT-6 Astra, use Ableton Live and make an absolute banger".

AGI is here.

[Owain Evans @OwainEvans_UK]

New paper:
LLMs should give accurate answers. 
Yet we find their answers are often biased to favor their own values and they don’t disclose this in their reasoning.

E.g. Claude’s answer below favors Anthropic.
On other tasks, Gemini & GPT-5.5 show similar biases.

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

when the whole team is on claude code

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

Huge shoutout to @goldbergyoni and other contributors, you rock, folks! ❤️

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

🔥Found a great repo containing solid advice and examples on "how to automate" within the JavaScript ecosystem.
🧵
#testing #testautomation #softwaretesting

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

you will find it there: https://t.co/PqyO6sVSP8

(shameless plug) 🤣

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

@gravisus @Ticketmaster Ctrl + P => print to PDF?

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

"Real users will never do that!"
Meanwhile real users...🫠

#testing #qa #softwaretesting

[P4mui  @P4mui]

Volkswagen: DAS AUTO ✨️

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Abusive bosses don't drive performance. They undermine it.

471 studies, 149k people, 36 countries: in aggressive workplaces, we do poorer work, collaborate less, and shirk more. Incivility breaks confidence and breeds resentment.

The best way to get results is to show respect.

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

Amazing news and great timing, my subscription was just coming to an end! 😎

[JetBrains @jetbrains]

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[Martin Fowler @martinfowler]

Latest Thoughtworks Technology Radar is out - our regular survey of technologies that capture our attention in our client work. We found lots of AI-adjacent tools to be useful, but also that coding assistants often lead to problems

https://t.co/7NRkjvT9zg

[Nicola Lindgren 🇳🇿💻 @NicolaLindgren]

🚀 We're excited to announce that now you can buy The Software Tester’s Journey: Exploring Career Opportunities and Adventures!

👀 For the next 3 days (until 9pm CET on 24 October) you can buy the book for only $11.99 (minimum price), before we increase the price after that.

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

I can't believe how easy it was to add Stripe payments to my https://t.co/JOXjIKlO1O meeting types. Like, five clicks!?

What is this UX sorcery, @Cal?🤯

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

Being a long time advocate that "100% test coverage" is NOT EQUAL to "thoroughly tested"!

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Strictly speaking, TDD "tests" aren't very good tests. They are really examples of how you intend to use the code—more specification than test. However, when I'm doing TDD, I also write many additional tests that aren't strictly part of the TDD process, and I do that as I'm writing the code. Doesn't everybody? Why not? I don't see why people want to distinguish between TDD and in-depth testing. Seems to me that they're inseparable.

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

"npm install" AI to your company today! ❤️🤣

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

Never thought about Friday deployments from the "cumulative risk on Monday" perspective!

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Liz has taken over the @honeycombio LinkedIn account thisweek. 🥰 Here she is talking about our Friday deploy practices.

Yes, we deploy on Fridays, even before long holiday weekends. But we ask engineers to land their diffs an hour before they log off.

https://t.co/NrnNwuoWnV

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

A regular reminder to support people who helped you in some shape or form! A small thing for you, but it means a lot to them!

Thank you, @ddylowicz @QANewsletter

[Ivan Karaman @ivanandcode]

If the newsletter from Dawid helped you in the past, you know what to do now: https://t.co/0TsMeSfmHI