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Cake day: August 10th, 2025

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  • I’m in a similar boat, except I had to white-knuckle the install myself. White-knuckle, because I had to set up unique to my laptop certs beforehand to get on the corporate VPN. And if it disn’t work, I’d be off the VPN unable to connect (I work remote). Got it working, but, fun fact, my ubuntu laptop is running Microsoft Defender! (per requirements) I feel super protected.






  • I made my career out of automated testing with a focus on apis. I’m not aware of any easy tool to do what you want. The easiest way to quick whip up basic api tests that I’ve found is python/pytest with requests. You can parameterize lots of inputs, run tests in parallel, easily add new endpoints as you go, benchmark the apis for response times, etc. It’ll take a lot of work in the beginning, then save you a lot of work in the end.

    Now, AI will be able to make the process go faster. If you give it a sample input and output it can do 95% of a pytest in 10s. But beware that last 5%.


  • Are any of their apis a GET that returns lists? I create a lot of automated api tests. You might be able to GET a list of users (or whatever) then pick a random 10 user_ids and query another api, say user_addresses and pass in each id one at a time and verify a proper result. You don’t have to verify the data itself, just that the values you care about are not empty and they key exists.

    You can dynamically test a lot this way and if a key gets changed from ‘street’ to ‘street_address’ your failing tests should let you know.



  • Still sounds easier than getting my roborock on valetudo. I had to take the entire thing apart to get to the other side of the mobo to flash the thing. Felt like I needed 3 hands to ground one place while doing a bunch of other things just to get it to flash. My workspace was a mess of screws and tiny robot parts I only half remembered taking out.

    In the end it worked and I’m very happy with it. Was sweating for a bit though. It was a $400 vacuum iirc.