In Craft Discord, someone reminisced about learning the old school way, with books and videos and other non-AI tools. I understand the sentiment.
I believe in ongoing learning and skills acquisition, especially as the tools we use change so rapidly. I also believe that everyone should be learning with books, magazines, articles, and, especially, videos.
I'm sure that comes as no surprise.
But I also believe in learning everything. I don't shut out or shun technology I don't "like" (how do you like or not like 1s and 0s?!). I embrace everything. I embrace and like using AI tools and tech, even if that means doing so while that tech simultaneously crushes my training business here at CraftQuest.
Why? Because one of my roles as an educator is to teach people forward, not back. Good teachers and learners don't stop because they disagree with this or that. We see it all as an opportunity to do better work and to learn from and use the newest tools available.
Well, that's not what I intended to write about when I popped open Campaign to draft a new email to you. I intended to write about new videos.
Here's some new stuff freshly published on CraftQuest!
🆕 Smoke Tests with Playwright
You deployed to production. Did it actually work? Or did a config flip, a template error, or a third-party outage quietly break the site while your deploy tool reported success?
This new course shows you how to find out automatically. You'll build a real smoke test suite for Craft CMS with Playwright, run it in GitHub Actions on every push and on a schedule, and wire it up so your deployment platform.
The 40 minutes (over three videos) of the course is up now. More coming next week.
Chrome DevTools for agents connect Claude Code to a real browser so it can verify its own fixes instead of guessing.
In this lesson, we install it, point it at a local Craft site, and cover how to check for console errors an run Lighthouse tests, so your AI tool can check their own work.
