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DevOps, cloud, automation, and lessons learned along the way. Notes, walkthroughs, and the stuff I wish someone told me sooner.

I Automated Meeting Action Items Into Azure DevOps Using GitHub Copilot and Work IQ MCP

My meetings produce action items. Most of the time, those action items should become work items in Azure DevOps. And between a meeting ending and me opening ADO to create them, there’s...

March 24, 2026 8 min read

Building an AI Agent Squad for Your Repo

What if your repo had a whole team of AI agents: a lead, a frontend dev, a tester,...

February 26, 2026

Shipping an AI Agent MVP: What Actually Worked

I recently led a 3 day hackathon to build an AI solution that streamlines our monthly business reviews...

January 20, 2026

⏩ Optimizing GitHub Actions Workflows for Speed and Efficiency

Slow CI/CD pipelines directly impact developer productivity and deployment frequency. When pull request checks take 15+ minutes to...

February 28, 2025

Control Your Windows VPN Connections from VS Code

Ever get annoyed having to click through Windows settings just to toggle your VPN connection? Yeah, me too....

February 12, 2025

Removing Sensitive Data from Git History with BFG and VS Code

TL; DR: I created a VS Code extension that makes it easier to remove credentials from Git History....

Using Azure Test Plans with Playwright

In 2020, I blogged about associating automated tests with Azure Test Cases. The post had 18 questions, which...

September 17, 2023

Measuring Website Performance with Playwright Test and Navigation Timing API

I was recently tasked with measuring the impact of a Redis cache on an e-commerce site. This was...

6 Nifty GitHub Actions Features 🚀

I’ve been having a lot of fun with GitHub Actions lately and wanted to document some of the...

Handling Azure AD/Entra ID Authentication with Playwright

One of the most frequently asked questions I get is how to test web apps that use Azure...

February 21, 2023

25 reasons to choose Playwright as your next web testing framework

I wanted a place to capture a list of highlights that make Playwright awesome. Here it is, in...

Create resilient 🎭 Playwright e2e tests with locators

Modern web apps introduce some testing challenges — dynamic controls can cause flakiness and unexpected behaviors. This is...

January 9, 2022

Publishing 🎭 Playwright test results to GitHub Pages

Now that Playwright has a fancy new HTML reporter, I wanted to host test results to show the...

November 22, 2021

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