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Cake day: August 10th, 2025

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  • I made my career out of automated testing with a focus on apis. I’m not aware of any easy tool to do what you want. The easiest way to quick whip up basic api tests that I’ve found is python/pytest with requests. You can parameterize lots of inputs, run tests in parallel, easily add new endpoints as you go, benchmark the apis for response times, etc. It’ll take a lot of work in the beginning, then save you a lot of work in the end.

    Now, AI will be able to make the process go faster. If you give it a sample input and output it can do 95% of a pytest in 10s. But beware that last 5%.


  • Are any of their apis a GET that returns lists? I create a lot of automated api tests. You might be able to GET a list of users (or whatever) then pick a random 10 user_ids and query another api, say user_addresses and pass in each id one at a time and verify a proper result. You don’t have to verify the data itself, just that the values you care about are not empty and they key exists.

    You can dynamically test a lot this way and if a key gets changed from ‘street’ to ‘street_address’ your failing tests should let you know.




  • Only one I’ve donated to (unfortunately), is Garuda. When I built my gaming PC, I had budgeted money for a copy of windows. But after I built it I was loving my steam deck so much that I had the thought to install linux instead. Garuda is the arch for gaming with the easy install of something like endeavor. Probably mostly marketing, but I love their look too. Gaming has been great on it, and I sent them the windows money. $120 or so iirc.







  • Only if you happen to have one of the handful of supported devices. I, unfortunately have a handful of old phones, none of them are ever on the list of supported devices when it comes to these linuxphone/androidrom sites. I routinely check them all.

    Except one that’s got a mostly working community build for postmarketos, but the install docs run me around in circles. At one point I had 20 tabs open of linked docs and still couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do.

    UBPorts did nicely tell me that my plugged in phone wasn’t supported, and while I could choose from the manual dropdown list, I really, REALLY shouldn’t.

    We need more drivers for devices, and easy installers. Or at least archwiki level of documentation.




  • 1- start an llc (pretty easy can be done online in about 20 min) 2- get jobs

    Part two is the tougher one. I’ve read that a lot of programmers are selling their services on fiverr (a pretty big freelancing site) to fix AI slop.

    There’s also dice.com (Though this may be more consulting/contracting than freelancing). You can filter by and get corp-to-corp contracts. These mean your llc gets paid, and then you pay yourself from that. The pay for a corp-to-corp is typically higher than a W2 because everything is included, and you have to deal with it all. Like benefits, bonuses, vacation days, supplies, etc.