I finished the draft of the third chapter today. After some proof reading of my own, it will be off to the editor for the first review. After writing a couple of chapters, it's a good time to do a bit of reflecting on the go.

I really enjoy writing this sort of content. Having the structure of the entire book laid out beforehand also really helps in making sure that I focus on a specific topic at a time. Without, I think I would be tempted to start drifting off topic by elaborating on more niche or advanced techniques.

I work for a large grocery chain in the Netherlands. We do ecommerce on a national scale: facilitating the ordering and delivery of groceries in the Netherlands. With a large organisation, it any change is not without effort and extensive investment.

During 2021, an investigation conducted by level-level.com signalled that they were only able to complete 55% of steps from their use case using keyboard and/or screen reader. This meant they were unable to place an order!

I've been working on another starter document, the Product Information piece. This is not necessarily part of the book itself, but is key to the success, since it holds the marketing texts and information.

This is a bit of a different mindset, because this is about trying to condense the contents of the book (which doesn't exist yet) into enticing commercial texts of varied lengths!

This morning I've met with my support team from the publisher. They will help me guide through the process of writing and publishing a book. (Well in all honesty, they are going to do the publishing part. I just have to provide the content).

This means we passed a couple of steps already. I've signed the agreement to get the whole process in motion. I've even been assigned an ISBN number (life goals 🙌).

As the great fictional professor Hubert J. Farnsworth said: "Good news everyone!". I'm going to be an author! After a short process of creating an outline and some back and forth between a publisher, I've been given the green light on writing a book on VueJS projects.

This is something I've never done before. The most writing experience I have so far is writing on my personal website, posting articles on Medium and Dev.to and one publication, which was my sole experience working with an editor.

Astro is the new cool kid in town, promising super fast websites with minimum page load. That sounds interesting and Astro has some out of the box improvements that look really promising. So let's discover what the Buzz (all astro related puns are intended) is all about! 👨🏻‍🚀

Astro is a modern, fast, and lightweight meta framework for building web applications. It is built on top of popular web technologies like React, Vue, and Svelte, and provides a simple, intuitive way to build high-performance web applications.

With ChatGPT taking flight with providing an accessible means of interacting with AI models, the debate on the usefulness of AI generated content is all the craze. AI and generated content isn't new, but the ChatGPT marketing campaign and accessibility have opened possibilities to the masses.

With the purchase by Microsoft, (next to its existing Github Copilot service) the future for AI embedded in our tasks is solidified.

Having identified a number of different types of tests, you can already imagine that each tests has its own place in the process.

The process here is key: because software development is complex and consists of several steps, it just makes sense to validate each of these steps. We'll outline a lineair process, but of course in practice there's more iteration between steps. That's fine and is in fact where tests offer the confidence of moving back and forth!