AI
The Visual Bugs AI Missed in My Game (and How I Caught Them)
AI agents can inspect screenshots, but they still miss visual problems in a real game. The pixel, touch, and trust bugs I caught, plus the human pass that found them.
The Journal
Better software starts with better questions.
Practical writing on software quality, automation, AI-assisted development, mobile apps, games, and the messy release decisions that make products safer to ship. Everything here comes from real projects, not theory.
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Articles
AI
AI Visual Testing: What It Can Check and Where Humans Decide
AI can inspect screenshots, compare pixels, and verify structure. See what each visual testing method proves, misses, and still leaves for human QA.
AI
Match-3 Game Mechanics With AI: Powers, Combos, Balance, and Feel
How I designed and implemented Tropic Tumble's match-3 powers, combos, difficulty, and game feel with AI, including real Godot rules and contract tests.
Godot
Godot for a Mobile Game in 2026: What I Wish I Had Known
I built Tropic Tumble in Godot and shipped it on Android and iOS. Why I would choose Godot again, and what mattered: renderer, screens, exports, store gates.
AI
Designing a Mobile Game With AI: Screens, Art, and Music
How I designed Tropic Tumble's mobile screens, art families, and island music with AI, then turned generated candidates into production assets.
AI
How I Run Three AI Coding Agents Like a One-Person Studio
Building a mobile game solo, I did not pick one AI tool. ChatGPT designed, Cursor and Codex built, Claude reviewed, and I stayed the gate. Here is the system.
AI
How I Built a Mobile Game With AI Agents (An Honest Log)
I built Tropic Tumble, a real mobile match-3 game, mostly with AI coding agents. The honest log: what came fast, what took months, and what launch really took.
AI
Launching Tropic Tumble: The Game I Built With AI Agents
Tropic Tumble is live. A tropical match-3 game, 300 islands, 3,000 levels, built by one person with AI agents under JPott Studios. Here is the launch story.
AI
How to Build a Claude Skill for Your QA Work
You keep pasting the same QA procedure into chat. A Claude skill captures it once, in a folder the agent reads on its own. Here is how to build your first one.
AI
How to Write a CLAUDE.md (and AGENTS.md) for Test Automation
A coding agent writes whatever your codebase nudges it toward. Write a CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md so generated tests follow your conventions and come back reviewable.
AI
How I Tested My AI-Built Blog
AI built my blog in a few hours. Then I spent the next day and a half testing it, because a site that looks finished is not the same as a site that works. Here are the real bugs and gaps I found.
AI
How I Rebuilt My Blog in Two Days With AI (Claude + Astro)
My blog ran on Gatsby since 2020, and after I stepped away from writing it started to feel dated. Here is how I rebuilt it as a real, modern project in two days using AI, and the parts I would not let AI decide.
Career
Why I Stepped Back, and the Reason I'm Back
For a few years I shared far less in public, even though the work itself never stopped. The honest story of why I stepped back, and how I came back on my own terms.
Testing
Test Automation Strategy - Guide
A test automation strategy defines the tools and frameworks used to get reusable, automated scripts, as well as how to create those scripts and maintain them.
Testing
5 Tips for Mobile App Testing
5 quick wins that you can use on your mobile app testing journey to have wider test coverage and more effective mobile testing
Testing
Prepare Your QA Team for Test Automation
The QA team is responsible for creating and maintaining test automation scripts, therefore choosing the members of that QA team and structuring it correctly is very important
Testing
Scenarios to include in Test Automation
Automating EVERY test takes more cost, effort, and time than is practical, make a data-driven decision on what you will and will not automate; and in what priority
Locators
Element Locator Strategy - Introduction
Types of locator strategies and importance of proper locator strategies as well as best practices to follow for testers and developers
WebdriverIO
Run tests on Microsoft Edge browser using WebdriverIO
Run automated tests on Microsoft Edge browser using WebdriverIO.
Dev
Adding Tags to Gatsby Blog
Learn how to add tags to your gatsby blog. This allows users to easily find posts with the same tags, providing a better user experience
Dev
Formik and Yup field validations
Form validation can cause headaches and may result in stress. Learn how to validate your React forms using Formik and Yup
Dev
Scroll to Top - React & Gatsby
Trigger a scroll to top icon when the user scrolls to a certain view height on your Gatsby blog using React and MaterialUI
Gatsby
Adding Google Analytics - Gatsby Site
Adding Google Analytics to your Gatsby site will allow you to collect important data. It is quick to set up and easy to use.
Dev
Transparent to Solid Header on Scroll
Learn how to change your header or nav bar from transparent to solid on scroll, once it reaches a specific view height
WebdriverIO
What is an HTML Attribute - How to use the WebdriverIO getAttribute command
Understand what is an HTML Attribute | How to use WebdriverIO getAttribute function | getAttribute vs getText
WebdriverIO
WebdriverIO getText vs getValue - What's the difference | Resolving errors
Understand what is getText vs getValue and resolve errrors you may get with each.
WebdriverIO
Resolving errors in WebdriverIO - 'no test specified' | 'missing )'
Find out how to resolve errors that sometimes occur when running your WedbriverIO tests with npm run test.
Gatsby
Manage subscription in Gatsby Blog - connect custom React form to Hubspot
Create form in Gatsby/React that matches the design of your website and send form data to Hubspot.
Heroku
Deploy React app to Heroku using Gitlab CI/CD Pipeline, test with WebdriverIO
Create and deploy a React app to Heroku using the Gitlab ci/cd pipeline. Test before deploying with WebdriverIO
Testing
UI Automation with WebdriverIO!
Learn How to Automate your tests using WebdriverIO and Javascript. You will learn the WebDriverIO API, actions, wait strategies, reporting
Testing
Pitfalls that ruin the testing cycle
Countless projects with great potential have tanked as a result of the inability to achieve intended product goals within the specified time frame...
Testing
Mobile Test Techniques
With over 3 million apps available between Android and Apple, to remain competitive you must provide users with high quality, high value apps