I'm Markus Oberlehner, a software engineer working on modernizing Austria's digital tax services. I write articles about Vue.js / Nuxt, React / Next.js, Test-driven Development, and CSS.
Is it worth automating things? I'm a software developer. My job is to automate things. Automation, over the last couple of hundred years, has made many of us rich (compared to our ancestors). So the answer should be simple, and yet it isn't...
There are plenty of good reasons to turn your back on the major US technology companies: from shady monopolistic business practices (e.g., app stores); to crafting ever more addictive algorithms that tie us to our screens; to enabling state mass surveillance. Yet all of this is not new. Companies like Apple have been trying to force us into their golden cage of services...
Visual regression testing is the perfect tool to catch regressions within our UI component libraries and applications early, yet few teams practice it. Teams often avoid it due to complicated setups, cumbersome workflows, and difficulties syncing tests across different operating systems...