https://robboles.com/ A practical knowledge base from Robert Boles on QA systems, automation, release confidence, and builder experiments. en-us https://robboles.com/posts/static-site-release-risk/ https://robboles.com/posts/static-site-release-risk/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 Building voxmana.io as a static site didn't remove release risk — it hid it in the seams. Here's where a 'static' side project can still bite, and how I made those risks visible before launch. https://robboles.com/posts/how-i-cut-a-regression-cycle-in-half/ https://robboles.com/posts/how-i-cut-a-regression-cycle-in-half/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 We ran every regression test every release — and it took two months. Here's the method that cut it to one: an honest audit, a coverage map, a business-built rubric, vendor guidance, and ISTQB-style risk scoring. https://robboles.com/posts/why-magic-lands-are-so-weird/ https://robboles.com/posts/why-magic-lands-are-so-weird/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Thirty years of Magic land design is one long argument about a single question: how easy should it be to cast your spells on time? Read the lands as answers and it starts to make sense. https://robboles.com/posts/how-i-run-ai-like-a-qa-system/ https://robboles.com/posts/how-i-run-ai-like-a-qa-system/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 AI is non-deterministic by design. I run my AI work the way I run quality engineering: operating prompts, grounding, examples, gates, and feedback loops. https://robboles.com/posts/what-good-qa-actually-owns/ https://robboles.com/posts/what-good-qa-actually-owns/ Sat, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 QA owns quality — and you own it by making it visible to the right people, in the language they can act on, before it ships.