A cartooon of a tree inhabited by human figures known as blobs. The blobs are in various poses indicating their emotions and feelings.

Which Blob Are You?

Just passing on a small facilitation technique I picked up last year: Blob Trees! A Blob Tree is a visual tool designed to allow individuals to express themselves and their emotions in a non-verbal way through the use of human figures known as Blobs. Instead of asking people how they’re feeling, you can ask them which person in the image they identify with. This approach might be helpful for anyone who:...

January 15, 2025 · 1 min

Finding one polluting test among thousands of options

Sometimes, a test can leave the environment changed in a way that causes other tests to fail. This is known as “test pollution”. Finding a polluting test can be particularly annoying, because every test passes on its own; it’s only when the tests are run in some order, with the unknown polluting test before a known polluted test, that a failure occurs. There’s a tool that will track down a polluting test: detect-test-pollution....

August 26, 2024 · 2 min