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I didn't realise how many of these I did in 2019! A bit rushed but less shaky.  This poem was performed at Test.Bash() Manchester at...
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This poem was performed by me at TestBash Manchester 2019 as a 99-second talk and was inspired by Tony Walsh’s Take This Pen. If you want...
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From my TestBash Essentials talk on the Periodic Table of Testing, I was very brave and performed a testing parody of Queen's iconic We W...
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Written in 2018, first performed live at TestBash Brighton 2019 as a 99-second talk. Go to 2:41 to see my shaky performance. It was liter...
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Written in January 2018In November 2017, I did a presentation at Leeds Tester Gathering. The talk was about how a test manager back in 20...
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Written in 2017 â€˜If’ by Rudyard Kipling was written in 1895.  Here’s my version, if Rudyard were a tester. Please excuse the ar...
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First published on The Big Test Theory.com in August 2017 Why categorise?There are several reasons, some more personal than others. ...
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First published on The Big Test Theory.com in June 2017. PS Personas – Technique Element  Sub-section – ApproachesPersonas elem...
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This was updated in June 2025. It has been quite some time since I last updated my Periodic Table of Testing. The 10th of December 2018, ...
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Firstly, thank you for taking the time to read my moment. If you have any comments, feedback, or questions, I'm eager to hear them, so pl...
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Lisa Crispin linked Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki over on the MoT Slack. The idea: instead of re-reading raw sources every time you have a q...
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