I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
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.
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.
If you had to guess, what’s the longest distance between the camera and the object that can be seen in the picture taken by it, how far would you go? Well, it turns out that the world record is 443 kilometers, which is way more than what I was expecting. I thought it’d be within the 100 kilometers. But 443 is crazy! Here’s the map that shows a different perspective.
