Via this blog post I came across this PHP image optimization library, which somewhat reminds me of this blog post from a couple of years ago. As good as ImageMagick is, it takes time and effort to find all the right options. With Spatie Image Optimizer you have an almost out of the box solution for optimizing images in a variety of formats.
This package can optimize PNGs, JPGs, SVGs and GIFs by running them through a chain of various image optimization tools.
Here is a nice review of the top 10 best automation testing tools circa 2018. It covers the following:
If you are just setting up the QA team or department and want to know what’s new and hot, or old and tested in the world of automated testing, have a look at these tools.
Here a couple of recent Q&As with astronauts. First comes the interview with Scott Kelly, with a whole bunch of questions around his time in space. And secondly, a few tongue in cheek answers from several space men and women. I found this answer by Barry Wilmore particularly entertaining:
“You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.”
A while back I wrote this blog post on the subject of using SSH via bastion hosts. If you are into this sort of thing, have a look at this blog post by my brother. He is providing a few more explanations and clarifications, as well as covers a tricky to troubleshoot case with non-default location of your SSH configuration files and keys.