Rules
- You have to publish 1 blog post a month. (The last day of the month is the deadline.)
- If you do not publish on time, you are kicked out of the club. (You can join the club after 1 month.)
- The club can have a maximum of 5 members at any time.
- All communication happens at invite-only private super-secret Slack channel.
Inspiration
Word rafting by Hrvoje Šimić.
Alumni
- @DVrandecic: 2023-01 - 2025-10
- @Etonkovidova: 2020-10 - 2021-09
- @jbolorinos-ctr: 2021-05
- @kostajh: 2021-10 - 2024-11
- @Mhurd: 2020-11
- @Peter: 2023-11 - 2024-01, 2024-08 - 2024-09
- @Soham: 2020-10 - 2021-03
- @thcipriani: 2021-06 - 2024-06, 2024-08 - 2024-10
- @zeljkofilipin: 2020-10 - 2025-10
2025-09
2025-08
- @DVrandecic
- Additions with unique digits: a tale of puzzling and AI
- @zeljkofilipin
- MediaWiki Quickstart by Monte Hurd
2025-07
2025-06
2025-05
2025-04
2025-03
2025-02
- @DVrandecic
- The Editors
- @zeljkofilipin
- MediaWiki Platform and Developers Experience Offsite 2024, Barcelona, Spain
2025-01
- @DVrandecic
- Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs and Search Engines
- @zeljkofilipin
- Testival Meetup #69, Zagreb, Croatia
2024-12
2024-11
2024-10
- @DVrandecic
- A passport odyssey
- @kostajh
- 'This' considered harmful
- @zeljkofilipin
- Refactoring WebdriverIO Tests From Sync to Async Mode
2024-09
- @DVrandecic
- Trademark on people names?
- @kostajh
- Meetings
- @thcipriani
- Subliminal git commits
- @zeljkofilipin
- The Time-Block Planner by Cal Newport
2024-08
- @DVrandecic
- The quest for the lost graveyard
- @kostajh
- Finding lost Phabricator pings
- @Peter
- Blog Post: Moving performance testing tools out of AWS
- @thcipriani
- The Pull Request
- @zeljkofilipin
- Podcasts in 2024
2024-07
- @DVrandecic
- Heading for Germany
- @kostajh
- Getting better at blocking bad activity on wikis
- @zeljkofilipin
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
2024-06
- @DVrandecic
- Taking a self-driving car
- @kostajh
- Loading Spur JSONL data into OpenSearch
- @zeljkofilipin
- CITCON 2024, Zagreb, Croatia
2024-05
- @DVrandecic
- The Heat Death of the Internet
- @kostajh
- Importing notes from Google Docs to Emacs Org Mode
- @thcipriani
- Hexadecimal Sucks
- @zeljkofilipin
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2024, Tallinn, Estonia
2024-04
- @DVrandecic
- Northern Arizona
- @kostajh
- Recent changes
- @thcipriani
- My Remote Desk, 2024
- @zeljkofilipin
- System Collapse by Martha Wells
2024-03
- @DVrandecic
- Libertarian cities
- @kostajh
- Recent changes
- @thcipriani
- My eclipse photography plan
- @zeljkofilipin
- Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
2024-02
- @DVrandecic
- Get Morse code from text
- @kostajh
- Recent changes
- @thcipriani
- Eternal shell history 🐢
- @zeljkofilipin
- Communication Overload
2024-01
- @DVrandecic
- Wikidata lexicographic data coverage for Croatian in 2023
- @kostajh
- Recent changes
- @Peter
- Blog Post: Web Performance at FOSDEM 4th of February
- @thcipriani
- Framework DIY 13 gen AMD review ⚙️
- @zeljkofilipin
- 2023
2023-12
- @DVrandecic
- Moving to Germany
- @kostajh
- Recent changes
- @Peter
- Wikipedia’s Worldwide Web: CPU benchmark
- @thcipriani
- Treats from git's contrib tools🍭
- @zeljkofilipin
- Developer Experience Offsite 2023, San Francisco, California, USA
2023-11
- @DVrandecic
- Wikidata crossed 2 billion edits
- @kostajh
- Recent changes
- @Peter
- Blog Post: The golden rule of web performance revisited (Wikipedia edition)
- @thcipriani
- Racy git magic
- @zeljkofilipin
- Black Box Testing by Boris Beizer
2023-10
- @DVrandecic
- Do you hear the people sing?
- @kostajh
- New tools
- @thcipriani
- Daylight confusion week
- @zeljkofilipin
- [[ CITCON 2023, Berlin, Germany | https://filipin.eu/citcon-2023 ]]
2023-09
- @DVrandecic
- Doug Lenat (1950-2023)
- @kostajh
- A week with Do Not Disturb mode
- @thcipriani
- A case for stacked patches 📚
- @zeljkofilipin
- macOS Lockdown Mode
2023-08
- @DVrandecic
- Butter
- @kostajh
- Notes for a presentation to high school CS students
- @thcipriani
- Review: Beepy, the pocket-sized, linux-powered cyberdeck
- @zeljkofilipin
- 10 Years of Wikimedia Foundation
2023-07
- @DVrandecic
- The Jonas Brothers
- @kostajh
- New focus
- @thcipriani
- Sriracha Fight!! 🥊
- Git Files Hidden In Plain Sight 🫥
- @zeljkofilipin
- Career Development
2023-06
- @DVrandecic
- The Future of Knowledge Graphs in a World of Large Language Models
- @kostajh
- org-mode and the magical WAIT keyword
- @thcipriani
- Please stop writing email like mail
- @zeljkofilipin
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, Athens, Greece
2023-05
- @DVrandecic
- 20 years of editing Wikipedia
- @kostajh
- Notes on the Wikimedia 2023 Athens Hackathon
- @thcipriani
- What I've learned about data visualization
- @zeljkofilipin
- The Web App Testing Guidebook by Kevin Lamping
2023-04
- @DVrandecic
- How Much April 1st?
- @kostajh
- Meeting attention for software engineers
- @thcipriani
- Towards Better 1-On-1s: An Awkward Manifesto
- My distraction-free writing fail
- @zeljkofilipin
- Testival Meetup #66, Zagreb, Croatia
2023-03
- @DVrandecic
- Oscar winning families
- @kostajh
- Blog Post: CI: Get notified immediately when a job fails
- Please read before scheduling
- @thcipriani
- Just stop adding people.
- Private(ish) GitHub repos
- @zeljkofilipin
- One Year of Pairing
2023-02
- @DVrandecic
- Ina Kramer (1948-2023)
- @kostajh
- Pomegranates in January
- @thcipriani
- Books I can remember
- Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️
- @zeljkofilipin
- Setting up a new Ubuntu machine
2023-01
- @DVrandecic
- 22 years of Wikipedia
- @kostajh
- I deleted Slack from my phone
- @thcipriani
- The Beginner's Guide To Overcomplicating Coffee ☕
- Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions
- @zeljkofilipin
- An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
2022-12
- @kostajh
- A year of writing club
- @thcipriani
- Writing raft
- Home Temperature Monitoring On The Cheap
- @zeljkofilipin
- Two Years of Blog Post Writing Club
2022-11
- @kostajh
- Rolling my own Mastodon
- Craft your own d3 build
- @thcipriani
- Git Notes: Git's Coolest, Most Unloved Feature
- A tech lead guide to manager powers 🧙
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Testival 2022, Osijek, Croatia
2022-10
- @kostajh
- Shipping to production faster (?)
- @thcipriani
- f.lux, but for your house
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Testing Computer Software by Cem Kaner, Jack Falk and Hung Q. Nguyen
2022-09
- @kostajh
- Book report: A Philosophy of Software Design, John Ousterhout
- @thcipriani
- Staging is a trap
- GitHub's missing merge option
- @zeljkofilipin
- Setting up a new macOS machine
2022-08
- @kostajh
- Behind the scenes of Wikimedia's image suggestions feature
- @thcipriani
- Fixing delivery: a guide for engineering managers
- The purpose of SaaS is selling out
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Exploratory Software Testing by James A. Whittaker
2022-07
- @kostajh
- Four years at Wikimedia Foundation
- @thcipriani
- How I built a running habit
- Meshtastic: a review
- @zeljkofilipin
- Inspiration Week 2022
2022-06
- @kostajh
- Technical writing
- @thcipriani
- Cool desktops don’t change 😎
- Sock🧦 Nerdery🤓
- @zeljkofilipin
- Testival Meetup #64
2022-05
- @kostajh
- How I Org mode (2022 edition)
- @thcipriani
- Explaining git diff to myself
- On the Proper use of Post-Its®
- @zeljkofilipin
- Chess Basics
2022-04
- @kostajh
- Being Organized
- @thcipriani
- The Unreasonable Fight for Municipal Broadband
- Blog Post: What We Learned from Trainsperiment Week
- I've Used All the Notebooks
- @zeljkofilipin
- Explore It by Elisabeth Hendrickson
2022-03
- @kostajh
- It's not your fault
- @thcipriani
- Code Review Decision Fatigue
- My Home Assistant Music Cube
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Outreachy, December 2021-March 2022
2022-02
- @kostajh
- Ctrl-r
- @thcipriani
- Blog Post: Diving Into Our Deployment Data
- Repos that always pass their tests
- Why I blog
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach
2022-01
- @kostajh
- Fixing broken homebrew-installed httpd on macOS
- @thcipriani
- Job Interviews By Zombies
- On the Term "Blameless Postmortem"
- @zeljkofilipin
- Stepping down as Testival Organizer
2021-12
- @kostajh
- On (not) making Wikimedia CI faster: part 2, Selenium
- @thcipriani
- Useful Photography For Beginners
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Perfect Software by Gerald M. Weinberg
2021-11
- @kostajh
- On (not) making Wikimedia CI faster: part 1
- @thcipriani
- Lessons from seven years of remote work
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Lessons from 16 Years of Working Remotely
2021-10
- @kostajh
- Blog Post: Benchmarking MediaWiki with PHPBench
- @thcipriani
- What I learned about writing as a new engineering manager
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Blog Post Writing Club
- Blog Post: Schools of Software Testing
2021-09
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: On Benefits of Team Chores
- @thcipriani
- Blog Post: How we deploy code
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: macOS vs Ubuntu Linux Part 2
2021-08
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: The Phoenix project book: reflections and thoughts
- @thcipriani
- The Deployment Fidelity Problem
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Google Summer of Code 2021
2021-07
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: QA Support for Deployment Train
- @thcipriani
- Code Review is Work
- @zeljkofilipin
- Learning Chess in 2021
2021-06
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: Testing search in MediaSearch - Part II
- @thcipriani
- Command Line HDR Image Processing
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Page object pattern
2021-05
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: Most Interesting Bugs
- @jbolorinos-ctr
- Blog Post: Improvements to Email QA
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: macOS vs Ubuntu Linux
- Dual Boot macOS and Ubuntu Linux
- ZAGREB21 2021, Zagreb, Croatia
2021-04
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: Breakpoint at BrowserStack conferences (2020-2021) - Part 2 Focus on Exploratory testing
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Debug Selenium Tests: logLevel
2021-03
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: Breakpoint at BrowserStack conferences (2020-2021) - Part 1 Focus on Automation
- @Soham
- Reviewing Code Reviews
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Outreachy, December 2020-March 2021
- Testival Meetup #62
- 2020 in Books
2021-02
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: Eventlogging journey
- @Soham
- Beware of Logging
- @zeljkofilipin
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Deep Work at Lunch and learn
- Testival Meetup #61
- Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
- Deep Work: Disable All Notifications
2021-01
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: Testing search in MediaSearch - Part 1
- @Soham
- https://github.com/coolemac
- @zeljkofilipin
- Hrvatska trči 2021, Zagreb, Croatia
- Testival Meetup #60
- Books That Have Changed My Life
- Frankie and Johnny
- Sharko and Bernie
2020-12
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: Exempla Docent - Testing instrumentation on Special:Homepage (QA perspective)
- @Soham
- The Truth
- @zeljkofilipin
- The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler
- Testival Meetup #59
- Jekyll
2020-11
- @Etonkovidova
- Blog Post: Exempla Docent - testing UI for Suggested edits module
- @Mhurd
- Blog Post: Spin up a basic local Phabricator instance with Docker
- @Soham
- The ball is in your court
- @zeljkofilipin
- Blog Post: Outreachy, September-November 2020
- Blog Post: Engineering Productivity Virtual Offsite October 2020