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Debugging MailHog in Docker: The Networking Fix I Wish I Knew Earlier
I ran into a MailHog Docker networking issue while testing a WordPress Core ticket, I needed to verify email functionality in my local development environment using MailHog. I am using the wordpress-develop Docker setup, so I assumed setting up MailHog would be simple. To test it, I first installed the Check & Log Email plugin.…
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Why Do Testers Ask So Many Questions?
You ask too many questions and slow the team down,” a PM once told me. But asking questions is core to testing — not just many questions, but the right ones. In this post, I share why testers ask so much, how those questions prevent failures, and what happens when they’re not asked at all.
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Motherhood Made Me a Better Contributor
How motherhood and a career break reshaped my journey in open source — and helped me contribute with more purpose, empathy, and clarity.
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Why Contributing Matters – Like Watering a Public Garden
Have you ever walked through a neighborhood public garden and noticed it thriving? Not because of a formal gardener, but because people quietly care for it much like why contributing matters to open source. Someone waters the plants. Another picks up trash. No spotlight and just simple acts of ownership, love and care to nurture…
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Growth Driven Testing: A Book That Spoke to the Tester in Me
I’ve been meaning to read Growth Driven Testing by Pradeep Sundararajan ever since it was launched in 2023. But life had other plans. That was the time I was returning from a career break, trying to find my rhythm again — professionally and personally. My son had just started school, and honestly, everything felt like…
