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Problem: My blog, Adventures in Automation, has collected over 11,000 spam comments over the past ten years, and unfortunately bare-bones Blogger.com does not have a bulk delete function. Through the Blogger UI, you can only delete a hundred at a time.

Pair-programming with Claude.ai, we whipped up a quick Python script to get around this using the Bl...


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Using AI as a research assistant? Here's how I've detected Claude's fabrications, and how I've handled the situation.
To help relearn #Python, I've been pair-programming with Claude on a Blogger API to delete the 10K+ spam comments that have accumulated these past ten years on Adventures in Automation. Blogger Spam Bulk Deleter

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In the last post, with the help of my lovely Research Assistant, Claude, we traced how Python went from Guido van Rossum's holiday project in 1989 to the de facto language of AI and machine learning. 

Using Claude is so much better than...


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Have a software testing blog? Care to trade links? 
It's tough out there being a software tester. Testing framework change every few years. Tech moves at too fast a pace to keep up. What about exploratory testing? What about examining the business requirements? Blogging has been a great way for me to deepen my knowledge of whatever automation framework my job requires, a...

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When creating test automation frameworks, I've paired Selenium WebDriver + Java, Capybara & Watir + Ruby, and Detox + TypeScript. What I haven't used since grad school? Python. What I keep seeing in these new "AI QA" roles on LinkedIn that I have blog...

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