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A Sunday With Creativity But Without Testing

17 Aug 2026

I participated in Creative Sundays as a team member, where we spent the evening painting together on a 5-metre-long c... image
In this moment: Ujjwal Kumar Singh
There is a little house that I have been drawing since I was a kid.

It has appeared in countless drawing copies over the years, usually with the same basic shape, the same roof, and probably a tree somewhere around it. šŸ˜€

Today, after all these years, I finally got a chance to put that little house on a much bigger canvas.

I participated in Creative Sundays as a team member, where we spent the evening painting together on a 5-metre-long cloth and turning our ideas around life, nature, and community into something we could actually see.
It was quite different from my usual world.No test cases to write.No bugs to investigate. No screens to stare at.

Just a huge piece of cloth, colours everywhere, random ideas, and people trying to turn those ideas into art. What I liked most was that it reminded me that creativity doesn't always have to produce something useful, measurable, or connected to work.

Sometimes it can simply be about picking up a brush and painting something you have been carrying in your head since childhood.

A very different Sunday. And honestly, I needed one like this. šŸŽØ

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Ujjwal Kumar Singh
SDET @ Skeps
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Hi, I’m Ujjwal, a software tester and quality advocate. Exploring how quality works beyond tools and into systems, decisions, and trade-offs.
Substack: https://substack.com/@beinghumantester

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