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Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees — University of Colorado

For years, many employers have worried that work-from-home arrangements leave employees isolated, disconnected from coworkers and more likely to leave their jobs.

But according to a new study, remote workers are doing better than many employers realize.

Top links from the Observatory this week:

How to test with a screen reader — Ady Stokes | WonderProxy

If you are not visually impaired, chances are you may never have come across a screen reader or text-to-speech tool. While it is hard to estimate exactly how many people regularly use screen readers, approximately 2.2 billion people worldwide experience some form of vision impairment, including millions who are blind or have moderate to severe vision loss.

How to Avert an AI Software Disaster — Patrick J McGinnis

In this episode of FOMO Sapiens, Patrick McGinnis sits down with Karim Jouini, co-founder and CEO of Thunders.ai, to explore a problem most people in tech are ignoring: as AI writes code at unprecedented speed, no one has figured out how to test it fast enough.

The testing pyramid is an outdated economic model — Tom Akehurst

The testing pyramid is one of the most famous concepts in agile. But how relevant is it for developers today?

Taking Back Control of My Job Search — Melissa Fisher

I’ve been following someone on LinkedIn who has made their job hunt very visible, sharing everything from the interviews they’re having to the outcomes. It’s inspired me to share some of my own experiences as I look for my next opportunity, including what I’m learning along the way.

High-level Individual Contributors — Jesper Ottosen

While working with “Staff-level Testing Roles” and “What is next for the experienced quality person?” I realized – the challenge of being a high-level individual contributor is beyond the testing and quality engineering roles. It goes with any role that can develop into a senior professional – way outside IT specific roles. I can se the same patterns in hardware presales, union representative and volunteer NGO consultants.

What's in the box! — Luke Lattimer-Rogers

There was a clock on stage.

I found that out after my 99-second talk at MoTaCon, when I sat back down and saw the next speaker looking at it. It had been there the whole time.

When building things was the fun part — Hanisha Arora

This Wednesday, I was travelling on a bus and there was a woman sitting diagonally across from me. She was reading a book while knitting. I looked at her for a few seconds and thought, that's a pretty nice way to spend an evening. Then I looked at my own screen. I was reading some code an agent had written and typing "What the fuck did you just do?"
She was doing something unnecessarily slowly because she enjoyed doing it. I was doing something cool and somehow having less fun.

When a job ad says Engineering Manager, are you sure which job they mean? — Tristan Bailey

I'm back in the market for my next role, and after a few weeks of reading ads and talking to people, it is becoming clear the same title now covers two different roles. This could be Ai lead or just the evolution of the profession. If you are an EM looking too, it is worth taking a moment to work out which one you are, and which one the company is hiring for.

How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate — GitHub

As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub.

My Hobby Is Learning — Kev Quirk

I've had lots of hobbies over the years. To name a few off the top of my head, there's been fish keeping, guitar, harmonica, fountain pens, watches, motorbikes, this blog, web development, 3D printing, tattoos, digital minimalism, table tennis, and many more.

I don’t think LLMs are making you lazy — Joe Woods

Here’s a topic that feels like it comes up every single day: someone will ask something like: Am I forgetting how to code? Are LLMs making me lazy?

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