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On November 28th, 2025, I presented “AI-driven QA: How LLM, MCP, and Playwright facilitate WordPress E2E testing” at WordCamp Netherlands. The talk included several live demos based on a WordPress theme available in this GitHub repository. WC Netherlands 2025 – AI-driven QA par Mathieu Lamiot Mathieu LamiotI am Mathieu Lamiot, […]
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On November 13th, 2025, I presented “L’observabilité en pratique: comment devenir proactif avec les bugs” at DevFest 2025 in Toulouse, France. DevFest Toulouse 2025 – L’observabilité en pratique: comment devenir proactif avec les bugs par Mathieu Lamiot Mathieu LamiotI am Mathieu Lamiot, a France-based tech-enthusiast engineer passionate about system design […]
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A real-life example I recently had the opportunity to dive back into hands-on coding for my teams—something I hadn’t done for several months while focused on other leadership responsibilities. I knocked out a few quick PRs, each taking about an hour to implement and test. Simple fixes, well-tested, ready to […]
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On November 26th, 2024, I presented “L’observabilité en pratique, pour que les problèmes n’aient nulle part où se cacher” at Azur Tech Winter 2024 at Sophia-Antipolis, France. Observabilité en pratique – Azur Tech Winter 2024 par Mathieu Lamiot Mathieu LamiotI am Mathieu Lamiot, a France-based tech-enthusiast engineer passionate about system […]
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The tech world buzzed this year with endless discussions about AI transforming software development. Every day, new headlines appeared about developers boosting productivity with GitHub Copilot or debating whether or not AI would replace developers. Yet, in this flood of coverage, I did not see much about how AI can […]
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On November 21st, 2024, I presented “Donner le pouvoir aux équipes pour mieux gérer la complexité dans la Tech” at Agile Grenoble 2024.
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Thankfully, writing tests for a codebase is now a commonly adopted practice in tech: it helps to ensure that the code behaviors remain as expected over time, avoids regressions, and overall improves quality and stability. Developers who write tests quickly come to the following questions: “Am I doing this right? […]
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Even small companies have data Data can be a great asset for product-oriented companies, especially in Tech: it brings a bit of factual input in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. A few companies understood this early on such as Facebook, Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn, a bit more than […]
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Some powerful features have been added to PHP, especially since version 7.0 to foster secure and safe code. Type declarations and strict typing are among the well-adopted features often considered best practices for modern PHP code. However, this does not always play well with WordPress development where customizable code is […]
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Shadow testing, also called traffic mirroring, is a QA best practice that can help reducing the risks of a release by testing it under “production conditions”, without writing more tests or manually generating scenarios.
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