Wins and grins

We love a good TWiQ episode that celebrates the wins. And in today's episode we did just that. 

So here goes, we celebrated the following wins...

Diana Dromey ran her first ever 10k, going a little further each time until the initial hesitation wore off. Simon reckoned it mirrors what getting started in the MoTaverse can feel like.

Gary Hawkes rewrote his pitch for a new role so it actually sounded like him, using Copilot only for a light second opinion. 

I finished my "Things to write about in the MoTaverse" series, ten Moments of prompts written as a pessimist, a realist and an optimist in conversation, for anyone stuck on what to write about. I also built a Claude skill for lightly planning an exploratory testing charter, eight steps you can follow even without Claude. 

Demi Van Malcot spent the week poring over data and caught a run of bugs across 166 euro conversions, with most of them fixed the same day. 

Nadja Schulz came back to the TWiQ stage and made a big call, with a Belgium chapter now on the cards. She also mapped every skill in the internal learning platform she helped build. 

Melissa Fisher paired up with Suman Bala for a joint talk, after realising they had faced similar challenges and deciding to tackle it together.

Rosie Sherry headed to London Community Week, bumped into Marie Cruz of Grafana, and has kicked off This Week in Community. 

Ashutosh Mishra stepped in to help run the Berlin chapter, taking on the sponsor work and the communications, and Nadja wanted him thanked properly for it.

Adam Davis built a live pixel mesh display that turned the whole audience's phones into one coordinated screen.

Call for Insights hit 45 conversations since starting back in late January, with 99, 200 and 404 all floated as the next targets to aim for.

Ady Stokes runs the Leeds chapter, and every time he pings the Meetup list a few more people sign up. He's been throwing darts since he was about twelve, and this week, after roughly forty five years, he finally hit his first ever 180. 

Rich Adams has an Edinburgh chapter event scheduled around the Fringe in August.

Company Chapters went live on the platform, giving companies their own space to share what they are up to and run events.

The talks from Leading with AI are now up on the sessions page, from James Pearce, Preeti Gupta, Nick Pykett, and the PwC team of James Chorlton, Helena Brown and Swapnil Banerjee.

A new Learning Companion Claude skill landed too, prompting you with questions to reflect on a talk you have just watched.

Gary Hawkes once ran a 10k entirely by accident after getting lost exploring a new route, exploratory testing in production, as Demi put it.

Bonus win: While I rushed things at the end we did stop at 59 minutes 57 seconds. It helps to keep it under 60 minutes because our podcast video editing software can only enhance the audio if it's less than 60 minutes. 🫠