Moments
It was great to have the WireMock representing at MoTaCon 2026 and fun to relate to Tom about indie hacking. :)The journeys of businesses...
There's something Jesper shared at the top of his Leading With Quality session. "I'm unlearning to remind people to do things....
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Megan Ozanne's session reframed maturity models for me. Teams grow either by accident or by intention, and a maturity model is the suppor...
We all get swag sometimes that ends up in the Drawer of Forgotten Items, but not this time!Happily drinking tea from my bug cup that sits...
This week I noticed I had access to Facilitator in Microsoft Teams, an AI agent that takes real-time notes. When it's enabled, you can as...
Existing test suites may continue to run, but without bug fixes, security patches, feature updates, or guaranteed compatibility with futu...
I had Friday off after the amazing MoTaCon also one can never have enough Brighton and there was a wonderful lady in the lanes drawing pe...
My first Ministry of Testing conference experience in Brighton brought together two inspiring events: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/e...
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MoTaCon
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After a very successful day at MoTaCon, Bug could not contain they're happiness!Did Bug gain wings? Did the riding star gained power, or ...
It's important to gather after something special like MoTaCon festival week. It's good to reflect and just to have a chat about things.I ...
We all get swag sometimes that ends up in the Drawer of Forgotten Items, but not this time!Happily drinking tea from my bug cup that sits...
After a while overthinking about what I was going to write to summarise my first MotaCon experience, I decided to just do it! No overthin...
Chapters
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Do you want to know what Developer Relations is about? Or how about what developer advocates actually do? 👀 Or maybe you just want to fin...
It’s a special one as it is part of the Leeds Digital Festival this year. Should be a great event sponsored by the awesome Hippo
Join us today. We have a lot of exciting events coming up for you. 📅 23 Sep: Maneesh Madalla: Guardrails & Evals: keeping your AI sk...
Arnab Purakayestha shared some great insights into the challenges around testing AI and shared interesting ways to tackle it successfully.
Ask Me Anything
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Upon my AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software moment Simon Tomes asked "While the recipe instructions and ingre...
Upon my AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software moment Gary Hawkes asked "How do the teams responsibilities in a ...
Inspired by the following challenge: Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything.I believe open source offers some of the best learning oppor...
Inspired by my manager who explained I 'monkey-barred' to a new job (before I was a tester I was a baker) and couldn't really transfer a ...
Call for Insights
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I recently had the opportunity to record a Call for Insights with Simon Tomes.We had an excellent conversation talking about how we as in...
7 Months ago today I wrote a moment about my goals for 2026 (My goals for 2026 | MoTaverse). In this post I wanted to provide an update a...
On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A f...
2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩2009 me would have no idea that he'd record a conversation with...
MoTivation
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I recently stood in front of hundreds of people and talked about my ducks collection. My goal was to get to 1000 community stars by the e...
Melissa Fisher awarded me a star for my "making presentations accessible guide". Helping people is my most favourite reason for receiving...
I’m announcing a very proud bug congrats to myself for reaching 5,000 community stars. Since my early days with the MoTaverse I e tr...
Simon Tomes is an awesome person who works incredibly hard for the MoTaverse. He has supported me and helped improve my ideas for years. ...
Guardians of the MoTaverse
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Luna - our white Lion from Sirius, protector of the realm.Munja (eng. Flash) - our Black Lightning, a shadow hunter.
Link was chosen by the Goddesses of Quality Assurance to guard the realm from the Great Calamity (otherwise known as "Deadlines"). H...
After the loss our last Guardian Cooper, we had a break as a point of respect and reflection on such a wonderful and dare I say unique do...
Meet Percy. We are looking after him for the day.
Memes
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talking about 'community as a service'
talking about MoTaCon.
Pope Francis’ reign included an astronomical increase in CVEs recorded…From https://x.com/IceSolst/status/1915516957840867394It wouldn’t ...
When I get to writing my next book (fourth) it should start with "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....".right?and not "All thing...
Firsts
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Last week, I headed to Brighton for my first ever MoTaCon, and it turned out to be such an incredible experience.It was great being part ...
I went to my first Ministry of Testing London event last night — and what an experience.The people I spoke to were brilliant. Was I nervo...
I messaged Lisa Crispin and Eamon Droko the other day. I am beyond excited that they are running a workshop together at MoTaCon. It's gon...
Alex did a fantastic job of delivering his first public talk at the Leeds Chapter. Wry little feedback required. Watch for him at c...
