Chris Board
@devsosoftware.com
Work full time as a solution architect, support manager and full stack developer. Building side projects in my spare time such as docuarmoury.com and test-track.com 🏳️🌈
Finally managed to release the new version today. Took just under a week to complete the migration and do a couple of bug fixes as well.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Finally managed to release the new version today. Took just under a week to complete the migration and do a couple of bug fixes as well.
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Been migrating Test Track to use better auth, don’t know why I thought it was going to be quick, taking a lot longer than I expected. Not the fault of better auth though.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Been migrating Test Track to use better auth, don’t know why I thought it was going to be quick, taking a lot longer than I expected. Not the fault of better auth though.
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If the AWS outage was specific to US-East-1, why did some NHS and gov[.]uk sites go down, surely they are not hosted in the US, they should be in the UK, at the very least be in Europe.
October 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If the AWS outage was specific to US-East-1, why did some NHS and gov[.]uk sites go down, surely they are not hosted in the US, they should be in the UK, at the very least be in Europe.
Found Postmark, giving that a try and seems pretty good so far.
Any recommendations for alternatives to sendgrid. Need email importing as well as sending, I've used mailgun in the past as well, so any other options - cheaper the better
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October 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Found Postmark, giving that a try and seems pretty good so far.
Any recommendations for alternatives to sendgrid. Need email importing as well as sending, I've used mailgun in the past as well, so any other options - cheaper the better
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October 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Any recommendations for alternatives to sendgrid. Need email importing as well as sending, I've used mailgun in the past as well, so any other options - cheaper the better
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Is anyone else having an issue with MacOS Tahoe where it randomly keeps enabling a location based focus mode, even though I am not in that location? Its only started doing it since my Mac was updated, never did it when the iPhone was updated to iOS26
October 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Is anyone else having an issue with MacOS Tahoe where it randomly keeps enabling a location based focus mode, even though I am not in that location? Its only started doing it since my Mac was updated, never did it when the iPhone was updated to iOS26
Successfully migrated from next auth/auth js to better auth on a new project I am working on, need to do it for Test Track at some point but that's going to be a lot more complex
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Successfully migrated from next auth/auth js to better auth on a new project I am working on, need to do it for Test Track at some point but that's going to be a lot more complex
Tried giving turbopack a chance in nextjs, and I'm not sure if I'm missong something, but code that worked fine, suddenly doesn't and instead get weird errors where I have to make huge code changes to make a bundler work, doesn't seem right to me.
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October 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Tried giving turbopack a chance in nextjs, and I'm not sure if I'm missong something, but code that worked fine, suddenly doesn't and instead get weird errors where I have to make huge code changes to make a bundler work, doesn't seem right to me.
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New blog post, how I fixed a deployment issue with test-track.com using Docker and Teamcity
blog.devsosoftware.com/Fixed-Test-T...
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blog.devsosoftware.com/Fixed-Test-T...
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Fixed Test Track Deployment Issue using Docker
Fixed deployment issues in production with NextJS by making the app work as a container under Docker
blog.devsosoftware.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New blog post, how I fixed a deployment issue with test-track.com using Docker and Teamcity
blog.devsosoftware.com/Fixed-Test-T...
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blog.devsosoftware.com/Fixed-Test-T...
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New version of test-track.com which includes the ability to create tags on a test plan/test run step with some other bug fixes is now live.
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August 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
New version of test-track.com which includes the ability to create tags on a test plan/test run step with some other bug fixes is now live.
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You'll soon be able to add tags to a Test Plan/Test Run step on
test-track.com so you can group and filter steps.
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test-track.com so you can group and filter steps.
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August 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
You'll soon be able to add tags to a Test Plan/Test Run step on
test-track.com so you can group and filter steps.
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test-track.com so you can group and filter steps.
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Been planning for a while, but since migrating test-track.com to NextJS had some deployment issues when building so forced me to look into docker to improve the deployment. Going well so far.
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August 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Been planning for a while, but since migrating test-track.com to NextJS had some deployment issues when building so forced me to look into docker to improve the deployment. Going well so far.
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Is it my imagination or are AI getting worse, it seems to completely ignore what you tell and gives vauge responses even though you've given it context it or makes up some BS that's obviously wrong.
In IDE often seems to call functions that don't exist or has wrong parameters
In IDE often seems to call functions that don't exist or has wrong parameters
August 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Is it my imagination or are AI getting worse, it seems to completely ignore what you tell and gives vauge responses even though you've given it context it or makes up some BS that's obviously wrong.
In IDE often seems to call functions that don't exist or has wrong parameters
In IDE often seems to call functions that don't exist or has wrong parameters
The new major release of test-track.com is finally live with new features such as Test Plan Prerequisites, Single Sign On, 2FA support and lots more. Can see whats new in a earlier blog post at blog.devsosoftware.com/new-test-tra...
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New Test Track Release - Built from the Ground Up
New test track rewrite with performance improvements and many new features including, SSO, 2FA, Test Plan Prerequisites, improved flaky test detection,
blog.devsosoftware.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The new major release of test-track.com is finally live with new features such as Test Plan Prerequisites, Single Sign On, 2FA support and lots more. Can see whats new in a earlier blog post at blog.devsosoftware.com/new-test-tra...
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My apple keyboard somehow has a chip in one of the keys, I've never had a keyboard do that before and its annoying me much more than it prob should
July 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My apple keyboard somehow has a chip in one of the keys, I've never had a keyboard do that before and its annoying me much more than it prob should
July 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I have finally completed the testing of the new version of test-track.com and will be available for release in the next couple weeks. Normally would do the upgrade straight away, but this is a rare time where I need to take it offline to migrate the database.
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June 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I have finally completed the testing of the new version of test-track.com and will be available for release in the next couple weeks. Normally would do the upgrade straight away, but this is a rare time where I need to take it offline to migrate the database.
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You'll soon be able to attach documents, spreadsheets, and anything else that might be required to your test plans. Coming soon to Test Track
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June 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
You'll soon be able to attach documents, spreadsheets, and anything else that might be required to your test plans. Coming soon to Test Track
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I'd spent the last few days trying to work out how to do the image migration for Test Track. I went away for a night to Cambridge and got it fully working within a couple of hours working from a hotel bar and hotel room. How does that work 😂
June 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I'd spent the last few days trying to work out how to do the image migration for Test Track. I went away for a night to Cambridge and got it fully working within a couple of hours working from a hotel bar and hotel room. How does that work 😂
I've decided to go with Cloudflare R2, I've always been a bit dubious about using 3rd parties incase I get a sudden unexpected cost, but I think I should be fairly safe with this option. 🤞
I had planned to use minio for a self hosted object storage, tested it last month to see whether it would fit as a POC, went to install it today to start developing against it and found all the features I looked at have been stripped out in the latest update
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June 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I've decided to go with Cloudflare R2, I've always been a bit dubious about using 3rd parties incase I get a sudden unexpected cost, but I think I should be fairly safe with this option. 🤞
I had planned to use minio for a self hosted object storage, tested it last month to see whether it would fit as a POC, went to install it today to start developing against it and found all the features I looked at have been stripped out in the latest update
#buildinpublic
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June 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I had planned to use minio for a self hosted object storage, tested it last month to see whether it would fit as a POC, went to install it today to start developing against it and found all the features I looked at have been stripped out in the latest update
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In Testing Test Track, I've realised I've not re-implemented the image uploads for test steps and test result, bit dumb of me.
This means the release I was planning to do in the not too distant future is delayed. [1/3]
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This means the release I was planning to do in the not too distant future is delayed. [1/3]
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June 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
In Testing Test Track, I've realised I've not re-implemented the image uploads for test steps and test result, bit dumb of me.
This means the release I was planning to do in the not too distant future is delayed. [1/3]
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This means the release I was planning to do in the not too distant future is delayed. [1/3]
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Testing Test Track for my big release but my home VM environment I use for testing, is grinding to a halt at the slightest bit of I/O work stalling the host making it look like a test has failed when it hasn't.
Think I need to build a test server in the cloud.
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Think I need to build a test server in the cloud.
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June 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Testing Test Track for my big release but my home VM environment I use for testing, is grinding to a halt at the slightest bit of I/O work stalling the host making it look like a test has failed when it hasn't.
Think I need to build a test server in the cloud.
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Think I need to build a test server in the cloud.
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Really think I need a way of upgrading my home server VM environment (Proxmox) Trying to test projects on a server that keeps grinding to halt due to I/O is driving me nuts and making it difficult to know if slowness is the server stalling or something in the app.
June 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Really think I need a way of upgrading my home server VM environment (Proxmox) Trying to test projects on a server that keeps grinding to halt due to I/O is driving me nuts and making it difficult to know if slowness is the server stalling or something in the app.
Think I have pretty much completed the rewrite of Test Track.
Now on to finalising the migration plan and testing phase and hopefully can release the big update in the next few weeks.
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Now on to finalising the migration plan and testing phase and hopefully can release the big update in the next few weeks.
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May 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Think I have pretty much completed the rewrite of Test Track.
Now on to finalising the migration plan and testing phase and hopefully can release the big update in the next few weeks.
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Now on to finalising the migration plan and testing phase and hopefully can release the big update in the next few weeks.
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