PinnedInTowards DevbyKris Raven·Mar 23AI Productivity and the Dark Side of EfficiencyGo on, use AI, you’ll have more time to focus on other things was the message. AI tools were supposed to make our jobs less stressful. But…A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedKris Raven·Dec 31, 2022So, tell me about yourself.It was the first week of my first professional, corporate job. I had managed to get a job in a Technical Support team of a growing fintech…A response icon1A response icon1
InJavaScript in Plain EnglishbyKris Raven·Sep 9, 2025Token Counter Go Brrrr: An LLM Horror StoryFrom ‘Create Some Unit Tests’ to ‘Please Make It Stop’: When an LLM goes rouge
Kris Raven·Oct 22, 2024Here’s why returning to an office for a full week will never happenTwo year ago I wrote a story about the Remote Work OGs. The debate about Remote Work is still going. Here’s why Remote Working wont lose.
Kris Raven·Aug 25, 2024Learning the hard way: results equals reward.Once a year, the company I work for performs a Performance Review, which is linked to a Pay Review. The general idea is that you get a…
InCodeXbyKris Raven·Mar 2, 2024Creating an AWS CloudWatch Synthetics Canary using ServerlessSCaC: Synthetic Canary as Code
Kris Raven·Feb 20, 2024The problem with E2E tests is that if a problem is discovered, who will fix it?
InCodeXbyKris Raven·Jun 3, 2023Updates to the AWS SDK v3 Client MockOver a year ago, I published this article about creating Jest unit tests for the AWS SDK v3 Client.
Kris Raven·Mar 20, 2023Fearless warriorsWhen I was nine years old, we learnt about a queen of an ancient British tribe.
