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David Burns

@automatedtester.co.uk
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Head of OSPO @browserstack, Se & NightwatchJS Committer. Co-Editor WebDriver spec. Chair of Browser Testing & Tools W3C WG, automatedtester@mastodon.social, www.theautomatedtester.co.uk

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Software Engineering Daily @softwaredaily.bsky.social · 5h
David Burns is Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack and a longtime leader in browser testing. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss Selenium, WebDriver, open source, and the impact of AI on web dev. @automatedtester.co.uk softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/the...
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The State of Browser Testing - Software Engineering Daily
David Burns is Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack and a longtime leader in browser testing. He joins Joshua Goldberg to discuss Selenium, WebDriver, open source, and the impact...
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 5h
I'm at #MoTaCon today and I can the quality of speakers is going to be amazing!
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I am on the latest episode of Stack Overflow Podcast! stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/25/p...
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Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill - Stack Overflow
Ryan chats with David Burns, Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, about the value of professional skepticism in an AI-driven world, applying test-driven development to agentic e...
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 26/09/2026
There is a special place in hell for people who do facetime calls in a coffee shop with other person on loudspeaker... It's the same place where people do things on trains on loudspeaker
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 30/08/2026
@lewisgoodall.com just catching up on @thenewsagents.co.uk … why did you give the Minister for Energy a easy ride? You focused on Daily Mail style questions(net zero) rather than asking why can’t we decouple gas from electricity pricing which makes net zero super easy?
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 20/08/2026
Cyber security is like an onion. THere are layers, and at some point you start to cry
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 18/08/2026
Don't let anyone tell you off for vibe coding. Even @anthropic.com do it with their authentication systems for Claude Code
OAuth login redirect takes me to a localhost address
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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026
Great idea - but 30 years too late? (I now get very few spam calls on mobile, none on my unused landline)
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 06/08/2026
Do people at Atlassian actually use Rovo... I mean... it's quicker to use Claude for Chrome than to use Rovo to do the same task and Claude is trying to figure out the UI as it works not use the internal APIs Rovo has access to...
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 19/07/2026
Argentina think this is street brawl. Fans need to be calling for those players bring their country into disrepute to be dropped www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
independent.co.uk
Argentina’s World Cup ends with punches and in disgrace
Paredes was involved in an ugly clash with Spain’s Eric Garcia and Gavi following the full-time whistle
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 19/07/2026
Spain deserved that!
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 09/07/2026
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 08/07/2026
Vote for Count Binface in the Clacton By-Election
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 06/07/2026
Are Americans happy about their corrupt government making their football team corrupt www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
World Cup 2026: Balogun decision leaves red card system in disarray
The decision to effectively overturn the red card shown to United States forward Folarin Balogun leaves many unanswered questions.
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 11/06/2026
Hydration break? What the hell? #Fifa2026
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 09/06/2026
Nothing says “I have the best product” like a company suing people for then saying no… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan over blocked £50m Met police contract
US spy-tech company to challenge London mayor’s intervention after he raised concerns over breach of procurement rules
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 06/06/2026
In this economy? I don't think so...
A screenshot of Claude Code being open and it is telling me to use the /loop feature to run commands on a recurring interval
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Chris McMahon @chrismcmahon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
LOL
A reply to github reporting a security breach that says "holy shit, how did the attackers find a large enough uptime window to get in?"
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 26/05/2026
Good thing a lot of the development lifecycle depends on @github.com. Yet again, GitHub is "degraded". In this case, it says the Selenium account is suspended... p.s. Just a reminder that Microsoft are trying to own the whole SDLC and everything is getting worse from VS Code to Github to NPM
It is a screenshot of a github action log saying that they selenium account is suspended
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 26/05/2026
Claude code getting confused by git worktrees? Happens all the time and they closed it. @anthropic.com Can we get a human to review and fix? github.com/anthropics/c...
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[Bug] Worktree context switching causes unintended branch operations on main repo · Issue #49424 · anthropics/claude-code
Bug Description Claude worktress don't work. I started this session with a worktree and part way through it totally switched and went to my main repo and messed up merging some changes with another...
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 22/05/2026
Why does claude keep forgetting which worktree I put it into?
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 22/05/2026
It's amazing to watch AI get dumber and try gas light you
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/05/2026
Brilliant from @ellabaron.bsky.social. ⚠️ Brexit was made possible by decades of economic failure for large parts of the country. 📉 Brexit has worsened those inequalities and hit these regions hardest. 🤕 Now Farage is prospering from the chaos which he sowed.
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 21/05/2026
TIL that Github Actions Windows runners have 2 drives available to you... and the workspace is on D:\
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 20/05/2026
Since I regularly miss new albums coming out from bands that Gen X and Millennials would love when I do I will share! There is a new The Smashing Pumpkins album out and it is good!
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 18/05/2026
"Let's make browsers open source... so that everyone can contribute" Narrator: But this, you see viewer, is a lie. Building browsers isn't easy as it's documented by engineers who forget small things which breaks the build...
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 18/05/2026
I joined a call and just thought... why do I look like a hacker meme when working...
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 13/05/2026
The age of AI is brought to you by "the age of `No space left on device`"
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 12/05/2026
The free tier of LLMs is at a stage that it can't complete a basic roadmap of a features in a product. In this case, it doesn't need to go hunting the web and parsing large amounts of data. The true cost of AI is about to hit us hard...
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 06/05/2026
One of the tables at @seleniumconf.bsky.social for the speakers. Some of the smartest and loveliest people in the testing space !
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 06/05/2026
Tomorrow is @seleniumconf.bsky.social and I can’t wait! Come say hi! I will be walking around or at the BrowserStack booth!
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 06/05/2026
I wonder if it's time to move projects away from @github.com ... their downtime is getting ridiculous now. Actions are failing because it can't download dependencies from a public site
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/05/2026
🔵 Over 175 former Conservatives have now jumped ship to Reform UK... 🗳️ Vote for Reform UK and get the worst of the failed Tories. ❓ Click on our tracker and see if anyone has defected in your local area.
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Tory to Reform UK Defection Tracker
Reform UK are presenting themselves as an insurgent political party, yet their adoption of former Conservatives shows th
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 30/04/2026
I am curious how much money companies are losing due to uptime not being met and having to pay their customers compensation. For example, Github has an ongoing incident that is now in it's 3rd day where it's not rendering all PRs. This is on top of the other down time.
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 29/04/2026
I’ve been added as an ambassador to @openuk.bsky.social ! openuk.uk/profiles/dav...
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David Burns - OpenUK
David is the Chair of the W3C Browser Testing and Tools Working group and co-editor of the WebDriver specification, trying to ensure automation frameworks in browsers are interoperable. He also heads ...
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 29/04/2026
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/g...
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GitHub will start charging Copilot users based on their actual AI usage
GitHub says it can no longer absorb "escalating inference cost" from it heaviest AI users.
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 20/04/2026
AI is going to take your jobs as it can work 24 hours a day without a break...
Error message saying i've used all my capacity and saying to wait 18 hours
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 19/04/2026
The last set of negotiations America sent 2 real estate agents… Iran sent people with PhDs
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 16/04/2026
Every country could improve their productivity, and hopefully increase GDP, if they made sure that train routes had full 5G coverage. It should ideally be better than what is available on roads
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 16/04/2026
One of the joys of being an engineer these days that we have the ability to work anywhere and interact with the cloud. I am currently on the train from Amsterdam to London, which is great. Unfortunately, in the age of AI, we are seeing a lot of services losing their 4 9's of uptime.
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 16/04/2026
Uber has blown through its 2026 AI budget already as AI companies apply the Uber pricing model of subsidising cost www.benzinga.com/markets/tech...
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Uber CTO Says Anthropic AI Spend Blew Past Budget, $3.4B R&D - Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER)
Uber CTO says Anthropic's Claude AI tools drove costs beyond budget months into 2026, despite $3.4B in R&D spend: AI economics in question.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Nike’s CFO explaining to their CEO how they need to stop selling shoes and pivot to AI.
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 16/04/2026
I’m not saying there an AI bubble but www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...
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Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot to AI, adds $127 million in value
Allbirds announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million in March.
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 15/04/2026
“Every testing framework from selenium to playwright needs this pattern of finding, waiting and then interacting “ from the Spritecloud x BrowserStack Meetup in Amsterdam tonight
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 15/04/2026
Looking forward to speaking at spriteCloud
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 13/04/2026
slightly getting bored with the "AI is about 6 months away from writing good unit tests". c'mon folks. AI is a tool, it can write quickly but if you don't understand it then it's not worth much... It can make you more productive if you use it as a tool...
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 07/04/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgyB...
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Going Over the Top | Blackadder Goes Forth | BBC Comedy Greats
YouTube video by BBC Comedy Greats
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 02/04/2026
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw someone saying testing isn't a skill on Linkedin! youtube.com/shorts/olREL...
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Last week I heard someone saying testing wasn't a skill 😬 #testing #quality
YouTube video by David Burns
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 31/03/2026
If you have Axios in your development stack, you will need to make sure that you have a version that has not been compromised! snyk.io/blog/axios-n...
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Axios npm Package Compromised: Supply Chain Attack Delivers Cross-Platform RAT | Snyk
Meta description: Malicious versions of the Axios npm package (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were published via a compromised maintainer account, injecting a hidden dependency that deploys a cross-platform remot...
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/03/2026
I’ve long covered MAGA politics but I was shocked by what I heard at CPAC. It has radicalised yet further. It’s a movement convinced it must not only save the US but Western civilisation. Because in their mind, the UK and Europe has already “fallen” to Islam. Watch 👇 youtu.be/t3Y_ozT_p3g?...
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Why MAGA hates Britain | The News Agents
YouTube video by The News Agents
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