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Honey B. Stinger
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Fullstack Team Lead; working on a system of config driven modular Cypress tests to automate QA for hundreds of sites

Sometimes sewing and art
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Had some time and inspiration to sew interfacing pieces together. Slow but steady
Two matching sets of pattern pieces showing the front and back. Interfacing is sew in and is a different colour Different view 5 pattern pieces including front facing, and under collar Close up of 3 pattern pieces
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Also used tape to straighten out a curly pattern. That's a satisfying application
The pattern piece likes to roll up in a tube and doesn't lay flat Taping the edges of the curly pattern piece down in preparation for cutting The pattern piece is now cut out. Close up of a corner. Two edges have tape.
September 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Put tape on the corner of the pattern before I cut it out. I think this will make more durable corners. Not certain if it'll mess up transferring the pattern to fabric.
Crisp corner from tape on thin tracing paper
September 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
I like the plain tracing paper over the gridded version. Way more legible
Plain and gridded paper Pain tracing paper Gridded paper
September 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Got a nice system to secure tracing paper to patterns. I put down tape on the pattern piece that I affix the tracing paper to

#sewing
Pattern paper with tape on the paper as points to affix the tracing paper The tracing paper affixed to the pattern
September 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Improvised a tracing table from lighting panels

#sewing
Lighting panel on a desktop with a tube light underneath. On top of the lighting panel is a sewing pattern and tracing paper
September 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
The horizontal strip is cut! Used a fancy electric fabric cutter A vertical view of the strip. Hopefully it'll be enough for the project
September 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Scrounging some fabric for the coat project
Illustration of pattern pieces laid on top of a folded piece of fabric An old fitted sheet that will be the source material for the prototype. The bottom has 2 mountain top cut outs, that used to be the corners of the sheet. The top is missing pieces from another project Rough approximation of the width needed to fit the pattern layout Going to cut a horizontal strip. The black measuring tape shows the doubled width of the previous measurement.
September 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Reviving my sewing hobby
Going to try to build the Merchant & Mills Foreman jacket
Will be making two sizes
Wish me luck
Illustration showing the pieces of the Foreman pattern, numbered 1 to 11 The pattern pieces have been transferred to tracing paper The pattern pieces have been cut out
September 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDis...
A long list of independent candidates with Pierre Poilievre as the Conservative needle in the haystack
August 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Here they are performing “Meki” from their 2020 self titled album

open.spotify.com/track/4NlmeY...
July 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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cy.log(`🔥🔥 Already on the requested page! Not navigating! 🔥🔥`);
Screenshot of UI from the Cypress test runner. Text reads: "🔥🔥 Already on the requested page! Not navigating! 🔥🔥"
July 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Soap bubble dandelion puff!
A foot powered pump in a field of grass. A black tube is sticking out of the grass near the pump. At the end of the tube is a soap bubble. Inside the soap bubble is a dandelion.
May 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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“A work of art in the form of a quantity of coins equal to the number of months of the statistical life expectancy of a child born January 6, 1995

One coin to be transferred on the 6th day of each month until all the coins have been transferred.”

MICAH LEXIER
A box of coins, neatly organized A box of coins, unorganized Each coin is engraved Detailed view of the organized box
December 7, 2024 at 9:27 PM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Buffalo Track Jacket and Kickback Pant
Spring/Summer 2022

WILLY CHAVARRIA
A mannequin wearing a jacket and wide legged pants with a unique knee detail Detail of view of knee
December 7, 2024 at 9:18 PM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Here is an updated model where a repair can be unsuccessful when at the main headquarters

stately.ai/registry/edi...
Now 3 events on a state node. One of them is "REPAIR_UNSUCCESSFUL" and it transitions to the "waitForReturn" state
November 25, 2024 at 6:23 PM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
A great feature of the FSM visualizer is the ability to interact with it.

From clicking around it became apparent that the state 'repairAtMainHeadquarters' / "9 Repair (main headquarters)" has a bug. When in this state there is no option to declare a "REPAIR_UNSUCCESSFUL."
FSM visualizer showing only 2 events that would trigger a state transition. Neither of them are "REPAIR_UNSUCCESSFUL"
November 25, 2024 at 6:00 PM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Here is sample output of a unit test generated by Model Based Testing and the associated test.

It's showing stuff like "You can get to the waitForReturn state by triggering these events: REQUEST_NO_WARRANTY, ESTIMATE_COSTS, ESTIMATE_REJECT"
Unit test output showing the events triggered to get to a certain state Code snippet showing how to use `@xstate/graph`
November 25, 2024 at 5:29 PM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Here is the diagram as a FSM. It's an interactive visualization stately.ai/registry/edi...
import { createMachine } from "xstate"; export const machine = createMachine({ context: {}, id: "Maintenence Program", initial: "noMaintenance", states: { noMaintenance: { on: { REQUEST_CONTRACT_NUMBER_OFFSITE: "waitForPickUp", REQUEST_CONTRACT_NUMBER: "repairAtMaintenanceStation", REQUEST_NO_WARRENTY: "maintenanceNoWarranty", }, }, waitForReturn: { on: { PICK_UP: "noMaintenance", }, }, maintenanceNoWarranty: { on: { ESTIMATE_COSTS: "waitForAcceptance", }, }, waitForPickUp: { on: { PICK_UP: "repairAtMaintenanceStation", }, }, waitForAcceptance: { on: { ESTIMATE_ACCEPT: "repairAtMaintenanceStation", ESTIMATE_REJECT: "waitForReturn", }, }, repairAtMaintenanceStation: { on: { CONTRACT_NUMBER_INVALID: "maintenanceNoWarranty", REPAIR_COMPLETE: "repaired", REPAIR_UNSUCCESSFUL_NOT_US_OR_EU: "repairAtMainHeadquarters", REPAIR_UNSUCCESSFUL: "repairAtRegionalHeadquarters", REQUEST_COMPONENT_A: "waitForComponent", }, }, repaired: { on: { RETURN: "noMaintenance", }, }, waitForComponent: { on: { DELIVER_COMPONENT_A: "repairAtMaintenanceStation", DELIVER_COMPONENT_B: "repairAtRegionalHeadquarters", DELIVER_COMPONENT_C: "repairAtMainHeadquarters", }, }, repairAtRegionalHeadquarters: { on: { REPAIR_SUCCESSFUL: "repaired", REPAIR_UNSUCCESSFUL: "repairAtMainHeadquarters", REQUEST_COMPONENT_B: "waitForComponent", }, }, repairAtMainHeadquarters: { on: { REPAIR_SUCCESSFUL: "repaired", REQUEST_COMPONENT_C: "waitForComponent", }, }, }, }).withConfig({});
November 23, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Event mapping between illustration and FSM
# Events | Illustration/Diagram | FSM | | --- | --- | | accept estimate | ESTIMATE_ACCEPT | | component arrives (a) | DELIVER_COMPONENT_A | | component arrives (b) | DELIVER_COMPONENT_B | | component arrives (c) | DELIVER_COMPONENT_C | | estimate costs | ESTIMATE_COSTS | | invalid contract number | CONTRACT_NUMBER_INVALID | | lack component (a) | REQUEST_COMPONENT_A | | lack component (b) | REQUEST_COMPONENT_B | | lack component (c) | REQUEST_COMPONENT_C | | pick up | PICK_UP | | reject estimate | ESTIMATE_REJECT | | repair completed | REPAIR_COMPLETE | | request at maintenance station (no warranty) | REQUEST_NO_WARRENTY | | request at maintenance station or by express courier (contract number) | REQUEST_CONTRACT_NUMBER | | request by phone or web [US or EU resident] (contract number) | REQUEST_CONTRACT_NUMBER_OFFSITE | | return | RETURN | | successful repair | REPAIR_SUCCESSFUL | | unable to repair (not US or EU resident) | REPAIR_UNSUCCESSFUL_NOT_US_OR_EU | | unable to repair | REPAIR_UNSUCCESSFUL |
November 23, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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# State nodes | Illustration/Diagram | FSM | | -------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | | 0 NO Maintenance | noMaintenance | | 1 Wait for returning | waitForReturn | | 2 Maintenance (no warranty) | maintenanceNoWarranty | | 3 Wait for pick up | waitForPickUp | | 4 Wait for acceptance | waitForAcceptance | | 5 Repair (maintenance station) | repairAtMaintenanceStation | | 6 Repaired | repaired | | 7 Wait for component | waitForComponent | | 8 Repair (regional headquarters) | repairAtRegionalHeadquarters | | 9 Repair (main headquarters) | repairAtMainHeadquarters |
November 23, 2024 at 3:42 PM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Here’s a screenshot on how an item is repaired under a maintenance policy and the same process drawn using a Mermaid diagram: www.mermaidchart.com/raw/6f9e4067...

From a presentation of Software Testing and Analysis - (c) 2007 Mauro Pezze & Michal Young
www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/cou...

#mbt
A model of the maintenance process. ```mermaid stateDiagram-v2 direction LR nm: 0 No maintenance mnw: 2 Maintenance (no warranty) wfpu: 3 Wait for pick up rms: 5 Repair (maintenance station) wfa: 4 Wait for acceptance r: 6 Repaired wfc: 7 Wait for component rrh: 8 Repair (regional headquarters) rmh: 9 Repair (main headquarters) wfr: 1 Wait for returning [*] --> nm nm --> mnw: request at maintenance <br/>station <br/>(no warranty) nm --> wfpu : request by phone or web request<br/>at maintenance station or by <br/>express courier [US or EU resident] <br/>(contract number) nm --> rms : request at maintenance station <br/>or by express courier <br/>(contract number) mnw --> wfa: estimate costs rms --> r: repair completed rms --> rrh: unable to repair <br/>(US or EU resident) rms --> wfc: lack component (a) rms --> rmh: unable to repair <br/>(not US or EU resident) rms --> mnw: invalid contract number wfpu --> rms: pick up r --> nm: return wfc --> rms: component arrives (a) wfc --> rrh: component arrives (b) wfc --> rmh: component arrives (c) rrh --> r: successful repair rrh --> rmh: unable to repair rrh --> wfc: lack component (b) rmh --> r: successful repair rmh --> wfc: lack component (c) wfa --> wfr: reject estimate wfa --> rms: accept estimate wfr --> nm: pick up ```
November 23, 2024 at 5:22 AM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Very useful illustration!
Figure 1: The main services involved in providing Bluesky, and data flows between them.
November 18, 2024 at 4:39 AM
honeybeestinger.bsky.social
Well, I'll take a busted localhost version of the bluesky social-app as this evening's success

github.com/bluesky-soci...
Local copy of bluesky app trying to load Local copy of bluesky app failing to load
November 16, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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Cypress demonstrating how to mock the response from a request.

The code displayed is run in the test.
Cypress demonstrating how to mock the response from a request
November 14, 2024 at 2:16 AM