Originally posted on Plio’s Blog End-to-end testing is often discussed in ideal terms — stable environments, modern browsers, and predictable user behavior. In practice, teams building software for real users operate under far more constraints. This post documents how we approached end-to-end testing while working on Plio, an open-source education…

Why ColoredCow treats code quality as infrastructure, not preference Most software systems are built with the hope that they will grow in importance.What differs is whether they are designed as if increasing responsibility is inevitable — and as if small decisions made early will be paid for later. At ColoredCow,…