Essays

Confessions of a retired bug screener

In the context of this article, “bug screening” means taking a bug report filed by an employee or developer or someone else.

May 18, 2020 • Chris Hynes - cricket

12 things I’d change about auto-correct

While auto-correct frustrates every iPhone user at one time or another, I imagine it’s an insanely complex feature to get right.

Apr 29, 2020 • Chris Hynes - cricket

Google vs Apple Maps

I ask myself the question why I bother writing this.

Apr 27, 2020 • Chris Hynes - cricket

In 20 years at Apple, I obviously saw a lot and was sometimes motivated to write long, laborious manifestos about things.

Apr 21, 2020 • Chris Hynes - cricket

Why is my own data least important in search?

All across macOS and iOS, when you search for something, the ordering of results in most cases is:

Apr 20, 2020 • Chris Hynes - cricket

WWDC 2019 keynote and Apple culture

I’ve written a lot about work/life balance, including this one: Slow down and improve your health and job.

Jun 5, 2019 • Chris Hynes - cricket

Shareholders vs employees

Many large companies with excess cash do share buybacks or offer a dividend.

Apr 30, 2019 • Chris Hynes - cricket

Ideas for better quality software

I’ve been around long enough to see many different efforts to improve software quality fail.

May 31, 2018 • Chris Hynes - cricket

My hierarchy of testing

I originally wrote this when I worked at Apple, and it was the most popular thing I ever wrote.

May 1, 2018 • Chris Hynes - cricket

Why does rebooting fix everything?

This comes from a long career of software testing where I went through more than a dozen release cycles, noting which testing methods work best.

Apr 20, 2018 • Chris Hynes - cricket

How to use dogfood testing

A number of companies use the word dogfood testing to describe part of their software testing process.

Mar 28, 2017 • Chris Hynes - cricket

Thoughts on scalability

While working in three different organizations that rapidly scaled by at least 10 times the number of employees, scalability became a huge problem each…

Mar 23, 2017 • Chris Hynes - cricket

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