Last Tuesday I lost about three hours to a regression in our checkout service. The cart total was off by a cent on certain promo combinations, and the only signal was a Slack ping from finance with a screenshot. No stack trace. No exception. Just wrong numbers. I did what I always do first. I opened the diff for the last deploy, scrolled, squinted, and tried to feel my way to the bug. Forty minute
I've been shipping software internationally for 5 years, and I've seen localization bugs tank launches in ways that make deployment failures look quaint. Currency displays in the wrong locale. Dates that make Japanese users think the app was built in 1970. Phone numbers that break form validation in Brazil. Last week, I decided to actually test TestSprite on a real project instead of adding it to
description: "Critical issues blocking TestSprite adoption in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines. Production fixes included." tags: testsprite, testing, devops, indonesia, localization cover_image: "https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/testsprite_mcp_review.png" canonical_url: "" published: false Code Review: Why TestSprite's MCP Failed in Southeast Asia (And How to Fix It) TL;DR
TestSprite adalah platform testing yang fokus pada quality assurance untuk aplikasi modern. Setelah menggunakan TestSprite dalam satu proyek production-grade di berbagai device dan region, saya ingin share pengalaman mendalam tentang bagaimana tool ini menangani localization dan timezone handling — aspek yang sering diabaikan tapi krusial untuk aplikasi global. TestSprite memungkinkan developer un
description: "Real-world TestSprite evaluation testing Indonesian e-commerce with IDR currency, timezone handling, and 3 locales. Grade A review with technical findings." https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1516321318423-f06f70a504f0?w=1200&h=600&fit=crop" TL;DR: TestSprite is 80% faster than manual visual regression testing. Grade A for multi-locale apps. Grade B+ for logic testing. Real findings:
I Built a VS Code Extension to Bring IntelliJ’s “Show History for Selection” Experience If you come from IntelliJ, you probably miss one super useful feature in VS Code: Show history for selected lines. I built a new extension to solve exactly that. Show History for Selected Code This extension helps you inspect Git history for a specific code selection, not just the whole file. Shows commit h
Microsoft's 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' Tag: Unpacking the Strategic Play for AI Dominance in VS Code The persistent insertion of 'Co-Authored-by: Copilot' into commit messages within VS Code—often irrespective of GitHub Copilot's active contribution to specific changes—is far from a benign engineering detail. It represents a calculated, multi-faceted strategic maneuver by Microsoft, signaling a pr
I have a bad habit of jumping between projects. It's not a big deal. But it happens every single day. So I built rewind. rewind That's it. No setup, no IDE, no agent loop burning through tokens. Just one binary, one command, one LLM call. cargo install git-rewind GitHub: https://github.com/Chronos778/git-rewind Would love feedback — on the idea, the UX, anything. Still early days.