Jerry Bailey's profile on Product Hunt

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I’m a Senior Software Test Engineer with a background in QA automation, test strategy, Playwright, Cypress, Jira, Qase, and building practical systems that help teams ship with more confidence. Outside of my day job, I’m the founder of Side Quest Adventure LLC a small creative technology studio where I build AI-assisted websites, digital tools, automation workflows, and business experiments. The idea is simple: every useful project starts as a side quest, and the best ones become real systems that help people.

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8d ago

How do you tell the difference between a 'genuine insight' and 'content' when posting here?

Meta question, but it's been on my mind since I had a post rejected and, rereading it, agreed with the rejection.

The difference I've landed on: content is written to be agreed with. An insight is written to be argued with. Content says "here are five lessons." An insight says "here's the one thing I believe that you might not, and here's why."

The test I now run before posting: could someone reasonably disagree with this? If not, it's content. If yes, and I can defend it, it's worth posting.

I'm curious whether other people have their own test, especially people who post here regularly and don't get rejected. What's the thing you check before hitting submit?

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12d ago

What I Learned From the Customer Who Never Complained

I had a customer who never complained. Used the product daily for two years. Never opened a ticket, never sent feedback, never asked for anything.

Then they cancelled. No warning. No explanation I could see. I emailed them asking why, mostly out of pride, and they told me something I still think about.

p/many-displays

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15d ago

Why your Mac loses window positions when you lock it

The most common version of this problem isn't sleep at all: you lock the Mac for a coffee and come back to every window on one screen. It happens because macOS turns the displays off a few minutes after you lock, and a DisplayPort monitor that sleeps looks unplugged to the Mac. The write-up has two Terminal commands to confirm it on your Mac, plus the settings that stop it and what they don't cover.
https://manydisplays.com/mac-los...
If it happens on your desk too, I'd like to hear which monitors you use.