Category: tech
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Starplot Glasgow – Stargazing from Your Browser
I’m very excited to share a new little project I’ve been working on: Starplot Glasgow. It’s a web app that lets you generate star plots of the night sky as seen from Glasgow. You can choose the date, time, and plot type, then sit back and enjoy a colourful map of the stars overhead.
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Good things I read or saw this month – April 2025
This post was inspired by a similar blog post by Beth Marshall from the start of 2024, so I’ve had this layout sat in my drafts for a good while! This month, I’ve come across a few cool articles, books, events and tools that I wanted to share, and also bookmark things for my future…
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5 Ways to Bring Space Closer to Home
Space can often feel distant, which is very understandable since the Kármán line (where space is usually defined as starting) sits 100km above the Earth’s surface. But many applications of space technology are closer to home than you may think. Satellites orbiting us provide a variety of services, such as GPS navigation, weather forecasting, and…
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Quantum Leap – The 2024 BCS SIGiST Conference
On the 19th of June, the BCS Special Interest Group in Software Testing (SIGiST) welcomed nearly 200 in-person and online attendees to their 2024 Summer Conference, hosted at the BCS Offices in London and live-streamed via Zoom. A key event in the Software Testing calendar, this conference attracted speakers and attendees from across the world…
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The Justice League Approach to Testing: Embracing Diversity for Effective Quality Assurance
Having a diverse group of people involved in the design of tests, means you are likely to design more new and unique test scenarios, improving quality assurance for your product. For an analogy, let’s look at groups of superheroes like The Avengers or The Justice League. Each member of those teams brings a different superpower…
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Breaking the Taboo: Boosting Efficiency and Creativity with AI Tools
Navigating the landscape of professional use for AI tools like ChatGPT can sometimes feel like tiptoeing around a taboo. There’s a lingering perception that using such tools might be akin to taking shortcuts or even cheating. However, it’s crucial to recognise that, much like search engines and YouTube tutorials, AI serves as a valuable support…
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The Future of Tech is Built on Generalists, not Specialists
I have one prediction for the near future of the tech sector: The end of specialisms is coming.
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3 Top Tips for Speaking at Conferences
Speaking and presenting at conferences can be a great way to boost your reputation, further your career, meet new people, and gain more experience in public speaking. I’ve been fortunate to have many opportunities to present at national and international conferences on a range of topics, and it’s an experience I recommend everyone to try.…
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Slow Down to Speed Up: Why people working in tech need to press pause
The world of tech is incredibly fast-paced. Technology is constantly evolving; new companies are being continuously started and stopped; there are always new challenges to be tackled. It’s so easy to get swept up in the rush: to try to stay ahead of the curve, meet that deadline, solve the next problem. And whilst this…
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E2E Testing with Playwright for Python: Pros and Cons
Playwright is an end-to-end (E2E) testing tool for web based applications. I’ve recently started using Playwright for testing APIs and websites, and I wanted to share my experiences. Playwright comes in two different flavours. There is ‘standard’ Playwright, which is installed using npm or yarm and involves writing tests in Javascript or Typescript. Then there…
She Codes the Cosmos 