Robert DeLuca Blog

We’re entering a personal software era where people are replacing generic SaaS with tools tailored to their exact workflow.

Trying to be a real first-time SaaS founder has been interesting over the past two months.

I spent 4 years at Percy learning what's broken about visual testing.

Tornadic is a new community-driven platform for exploring tornado history, radar loops, and storm data—all in one place.

When I first used ChatGPT's "work with" feature, I loved how effortlessly it integrated AI into my dev workflow.

Learn how to test GitHub Actions locally using act, reducing development cycle time from minutes to seconds.

A simple GitHub Action that monitors RSS feeds and sends email notifications when new articles are published.

A costly debugging lesson about case sensitivity differences between macOS and Git that led to deployment failures.

Bronny James’ selection by the Lakers might seem like nepotism, but using the 55th pick, which rarely yields successful players, makes it an okay move.

We needed a way to deploy arbitrary branches to different environments via GitHub actions.

We often hear the story of someone building something quickly that becomes popular, only to be embarrassed by the source code's appearance.

DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is often seen as a golden rule.

When you're working on UI testing, reviewing screenshots as part of a (PR) can be a time-consuming and tedious process By using a test runner like Moonshiner to capture the screenshots and GitHub's built-in rich diff feature for code changes...

As one of the most popular “static site” generators, the React-based Gatsby has been adopted by thousands of teams to create e-commerce websites, developer blogs, portfolios, and more.

We’re always looking for ways to make it easier for developers to get started with visual testing.

I recently have been running longer prints that sometimes finish in the middle of the night (or day when I’m not around).

We’re excited to introduce our new TestCafe integration!

There’s been a trend I have been seeing around the front end world where folks are switching their test suites to use Jest over something like Karma and Mocha.

Introducing PercyScript: The easiest way to get started with visual testing We believe that visual tests are the lowest-effort, highest-value tests you can write.

It’s been a little while since I’ve written a non-technical blog post (or even a post that’s not related to work).

My JSConf talk about BigTest - a framework that makes UI testing fast, robust, and maintainable by challenging traditional testing assumptions.

Native HTML controls work great up until you need to apply custom styling.

Currently, every major Single Page App’s (SPA) router is broken the second you install it (Ember, Angular, React/Preact/Vue.js, etc).

While Hurricane Harvey rains down on Texas I decided this would be a prefect time to build a contact form for a static HTML page that I need.