Latest news, updates, and insights from the Asterisk Pound team.
How I replaced Laravel Dusk with Cypress for an Inertia + Vue app and built a testing API to control the database, factories, and authentication.
Why Laravel Dusk often struggles with Inertia.js applications and how to transition to more reliable SPA testing tools like Cypress and Playwright.
How to build a long, sustainable career in software engineering without chasing every trend or losing yourself in the process.
Why every generation of software chases the next big thing — and how to tell real progress from expensive experimentation.
How deployment, infrastructure, and reliability became part of the software engineer’s job — whether we wanted it or not.
Why every software engineer eventually faces the question of depth versus breadth — and why there’s no universal right answer.