Testing Firefox Extensions with Playwright: End-to-End Testing Guide Extension testing is one of those things everyone knows they should do but few actually do. I've been using Playwright for end-to-end tests on the Weather & Clock Dashboard extension and it's changed how I think about extension quality. Unit tests don't cover the biggest failure modes: Does the extension actually load in Firefo
Why I built another Ruby test runner inspired by Playwright Test Ruby already has great testing tools. If you are building Rails applications today, you probably use one of these combinations: RSpec + Capybara Minitest + Capybara Rails system tests Maybe Selenium, Cuprite, Ferrum, or Playwright through Ruby bindings These tools are mature, battle-tested, and widely used. So the natural question
I wanted to test my web app. That's it. A Next.js portfolio and a SaaS chat — run some accessibility checks, catch console errors, verify nothing's broken on mobile. The kind of thing you do before pushing to production. I opened Claude Code, connected Playwright MCP, typed "test the app" and watched it burn through tokens like there was no tomorrow. Then /compact fired at 18% text context. Then I
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed