Devo 🥑 @ Pactflow | Community Shepherd @ Pact | API Tech Evangelist @ SmartBear

Joined October 2014
left @skytv to join @skytv ( Sky Q to Sky Stream), one of the worst decisions I ever made. The tech is great, but Sky reported my @facebook account of 17 years, for trademark infringement, which was auto perma-banned. You cannot talk to anyone human at @Meta unless you pay them.
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👋 Excited to be speaking at #apidays NY! May 15th 4:30pm Graceful service evolution, driven by open standards, guided by contracts. Free tix below ticket.apidays.global/event/… #API #DigitalInnovation @SmartBear #pact @SwaggerApi #spectral #OpenAPI See you there Yousaf
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SmartBear DevRel Hangout - Spooky Software Shockers with guests @morvader @apenlor Tune in on 31st October, 3pm UTC/GMT for some industry news, software horrors of the past, and a panel session with some techniques to keep the ghosts in the machine.👻bit.ly/smartbear-devrel-hang…
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🎺Pleased to announce that a book dedicated to contract-testing has just been released. Be sure to give it a read mng.bz/gv8l Especially as it comes packed with wisdom from @mcruzdrake and @WuigPrescott @pact_up @SmartBear #cdct #testing #contracttestinginaction
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J. B. Rainsberger!!! Beware the Integrated Tests Scam: A Retrospective And An Apology Live now! youtube.com/watch?v=s1LOP4Ak… #Pactober @pact_up
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Watch Sam Newman now live at #Pactober's birthday bash youtube.com/watch?v=s1LOP4Ak… and don't miss @WuigPrescott, Bas Dijkstra & @davefarley77 right after! @pact_up
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Want to compile your favourite @rustlang app and don't want to leave out @freebsd aarch64 users? Well now you don't have to. cargo install cross --git github.com/cross-rs/cross cross +nightly build -Z build-std=std,core --target aarch64-unknown-freebsd --release
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Stumbled across this blog post, hunting down how to break the 2 vm limit on macOS, by none other than the Hackintosh hero who co-founded Dortainia. <3 Thank you man, we are not worthy
Bit of a tangent from my usual legacy Mac patching, however finally figured out how to bypass Apple’s VM limit on Apple silicon Macs with macOS Guest VMs! Below are 9 VMs running at once, and surprisingly usable! Blog: khronokernel.github.io/macos…
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It's nearly Pactober time - pact.io/pactober Looking forward to hearing from all our fantastic speakers. There is still space in the calendar to host an event, in any language, to help spread the word of Pact far and wide! Hope you can make it to some of the events!
❤️ Pact as much as us? Sign up bit.ly/46bYjFi to join us for lots of contract testing goodness throughout the month of October, and celebrate our 10 years of Pact open source at our birthday event on 10/10 with keynotes from J.B. Rainsberger and @samnewman 🎉
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Bun.sh just reached 1.0 a couple of days ago, woop! If you are a pact-js user, you could try out pact-bun github.com/YOU54F/pact-bun which is a port of pact-js/pact-js-core. trialling out @deno_land and Bun? check out github.com/you54f/deno-pact cc @jarredsumner
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One for you #pythonistas Join @dawoudsheraz at #Python Web Conf 2023 (March 13- 17), for his talk “Why you should contract test your #Microservices”. Hear him will cover the need for #contracttesting and how @pact_up can help in that. 2023.pythonwebconf.com/prese…
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Pact turned 10 today! Still honoured to be helping out on a product that helped countless users and organisations engage in more useful collaboration, leaving checking to the computers and letting testers and developers experience quicker feedback cycles, and improved confidence.
It’s our 10th birthday today 🎂 We are proud to be the most loved and adopted multi-protocol and language contract testing tool. it’s made possible by open source contributors. We look forward to celebrating with you this year, both in person and as part of virtual events. 💛🔗
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🆕🦀 Just an hour ago, #rustlang 1.66.0 was released! As usual, here's a thread with some of the highlights. 🧵 1/12
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Super pleased to be live tonight! Come join @matthewfellows and myself as we introduce you to the new Pact Plug-in framework. Sign up here 👉🏽 docs.pact.io/events/plugins-…
Pact cares about the environment, so whilst we are all going electric. Pact now comes fully charged, batteries included. You can recharge with one of our plugins. Not enough charge points? build your own. Not a builder? Post a wanted advert. Find out more docs.pact.io/events/plugins-…
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(1/5) #GitHubUniverse was an incredible event and it was a privilege to attend in-person. So many cool things, but the one that stood out for me was @kdaigle’s talk — inspiring, touching, and a grand reveal of @GitHubNext to the world ❤️ youtube.com/watch?v=4NuK415H…
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Thank you @killercoda - I'm trying something new, a blog post with a twist, an interactive history lesson. PS. Feature request for opening files in the editor from the markdown, pretty please
As we launch our Pact Plugin Framework bringing you new possibilities to the Pact eco-system, I’d like to invite you to try an interactive history lesson of pact.io, from past, to present and beyond! docs.pact.io/blog/2022/11/17… #grpc #pact #protobufs #possibilities
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Your fave contract testing solution now Pact with more power ⚡ With the 🆕 #Pact #Plugin Framework, support #contracttesting use cases you previously couldn't, such as #Protobufs, #GraphQL, #gRPC, #Websockets, #MQTT, #Avro + more. Check it out 👉 docs.pact.io/blog/2022/11/11…

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Something for your Friday, have a listen to community @pact_up champion @WuigPrescott catching up with the lovely @NoelWurst over on @SmartBear 's podcast sessions - The people behind your favourite apps.
A big thank you to @WuigPrescott, QA Lead at @cera_care, who recently appeared on our SmartBear podcast with Noel Wurst! In this episode, Lewis shares how Cera is transforming healthcare to help caregivers focus on what matters most—their patients. smartbear.com/podcast/
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