Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
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⏳ Events happening this week: TWiC — This Week in Community & This Week in Quality.
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📸 Photo this week from Emily O'Connor at the MoT Leeds Chapter.
When AI writes the code, test environments matter
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The Interview Question Bank for Engineering Managers — Neil Younger
Organised by theme, and every question comes with a short thinking prompt
Oh the anxcitement! Chaos-driven development, AI coding skills, and a new look profile page — TWiQ
A lively MoTaverse walkthrough episode covering AI chapter momentum, new profile pages, community learning, chaos-driven development, AI skills, and big personal wins for the community.
Everyday AI coding: skills & plugins in a tester's workflow — Maneesh Maddala
Reduce repeat-prompting overhead by building reusable skills for recurring workflows, cutting task time from a full day down.
Are boundaries the answer to AI in communities? — Rosie Sherry, Simon Tomes & Drew Pontikis
Rosie, Simon and Drew explore AI, authenticity, measuring what community really delivers and community building boundaries
Inside the MoTaverse's slow pivot from testing community to tech community — Simon Tomes & Rosie Sherry
Simon Tomes returns to Into the MoTaverse for a six-month check-in with Rosie on Community as a Service, care, joy, and the slow pivot to becoming a tech community.
Moments in the MoTaverse, create your moment today.
- My learning journey — Shilpa Saraf
- Trust Isn't Built by Winning — Petros Plakogiannis
- Familiar faces — Emily O'Connor
- Thank you to the MoTaverse Community — Gary Hawkes
- AI Coding Skills & Plugins - Notes by Rishikesh V. — Rahul Parwal
- Punctuation matters. Punctuation. matters. — Deborah Reid
- Learning new (AI) skills — Neil Taylor
- Showing up takes persevilience — Simon Tomes
- Dr Default persona — Gary Hawkes
- Bug lists tell you what. The shape can tell you why. — Justin Holsgrove
- Continuous Remembering — Adam Foy
- Ady Stokes — 7 Moments this week: Slack bug?, Do you have your Hamster badge yet?, Great Summer Social event, and 4 more.
- Rosie Sherry — 6 Moments this week: Trend Watch: Software Testing was down, but now it and Quality Engineering are on the up., Please send me to MoTaCon, Community Infrastructure and The AI Minimum Viable Community, and 3 more.
- Diana Dromey — 5 Moments this week: Attend MoTaCon!, Content catalogue with 1,000+ sessions, The actual selfie!, and 2 more.
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📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse online:
- Influence, from the other side of the table — Masterclass — Sept 10th
- Test data driven development — Masterclass — Sept 23rd
MoTaverse, in person:
- Leaders Dinner, London — Sept 28th. SOLD OUT.
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. SOLD OUT, add yourself to the waitlist.
- Engineering management beach party — Sept 30th
- Leaders Dinner, Brighton — Sept 30th
- Pre-MoTaCon Meetup | MoT Brighton
- MoTaCon 2026: 299 people already registered. Let's go!
- MoTography at your service — October 1st
- Brighton walking tour — Friday 2nd of October
MoT Chapter events:
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage, and join the Chapter.
- TWiC, listen live or join the stage, and join the Chapter
- Social event at the Fringe: Get Your Geek On | MoT Edinburgh
- Chapter Event #61: Cognitive overload in the AI era | MoT Berlin
- AI Assisted Exploratory Testing with Trowser | MoT AI Chapter
- The MoTaCon Pre‑Party: The Spoiler Episode...Live from Groningen | MoT Netherlands
- Newcastle September Mot Event | MoT Newcastle
- Testing What You Can't Control: Adam Davis | MoT Leeds
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