justlurkin

> 9 women can't produce a baby in one month!

> Then you're just not thinking hard enough!

- My boss

Ignoring the tooling, I don't feel it's fair to say that Wynne is "making the world a worse place". This quote in particular:

> Really the magic of BDD is in playing the game of, if we have to explain to the computer how to test the behavior that we want, we have to have figured out the behavior we want. By collaboratively doing that, by sitting down together and doing that we have to thrash out between those three groups what is it that we want so the tester and the developer and the business person are all on the same page about what is it actually going to mean for this story to be done. By the time they get to writing the code it’s a much more straight forward process. A lot of those potential bugs have been ironed out.

is incredibly important and often overlooked. It doesn't necessarily mean that a "non-developer" is writing an automated test, but that the engineering team, the QA team, and the business have discussed and reached an agreement over the acceptance tests. This implies that the test has been thought about, written, and understood by all parties including the business person which often is skipped in favor of "increasing turnaround time". Prototyping is fine if everyone agrees to it, but in a world where the expectation to ship software every sprint exists, you can't skip mutual understanding. That is a conversation and no tool is going to automate it away.

I'm partial to the former method for speed, but you almost always need to dive into the source to understand the "answer" provided. A somewhat relevant example is typing in a certain spelling of something to check correctness, and the first results are confirming your spelling, right or wrong. You click into the results, and you get "x, a common mispelling for y".

Moral of the story, Google is great for finding things fast, but make sure you validate your results against multiple sources.

You're telling me you don't have a 1+ feet of clearance above your garage door?

I just like the way it works, it doesn't have to be Slack specifically.

That thing distracted me right off the page.

I for one wish Slack was the new standard messaging app for everything and everyone.

In my mind, I'm seeing a simpler solution that may be viable, enter the The "Claw Game" charger:

* Attaches to ceiling of structure

* Has some sort of sensor to identify charging port, perhaps on the charger end itself

* Has some limited range of mobility - 2'x2' with X & Y axis movement

* Cord unreels down to the charging port once it is reasonably lined up

* Charging cable has Macbook style electromagnet, reaches "charging zone" and activates, inserting itself

* Safety checks are done, wattage is pumped into the cottage if all is well

I honestly don't know if this is better or worse, it's definitely less cool.