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Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
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STEC and SQEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
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Congrats on solving the TWiQ puzzle. 🧩
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4.5.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland app users hit by outage
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How Accessibility Prepares Your Website For AI Search
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3.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Thanks for being the first editor on my very long artical "A Practical Introduction to LLM testing" I appreciate all the effort and feedback!
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The standardisation shivers
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The standardisation shivers
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A reflection on the rigidity of templates and checklists
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The standardisation shivers
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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What happened to charters and templates that guide us?
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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Everything is scattered. Nothing is structured.
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2.5.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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1.0.0 of Quality Coaching essentials
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Prediction: AI will make accessibility worse
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Member joined TWiQ — This Week in Quality chapter
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Prediction: AI will make accessibility worse
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Vibe coding, agentic engineering or coding, conversational programming, and others are terms for using AI (Artificial Intelligence, not actual intelligence) to create code, products and systems. Th...
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A pessimist, optimist and realist are talking about writing. Previously they agreed to write about new processes at work which means thinking about the impact a new process will have on the future....
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Write about a prediction
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Write about a prediction
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"If they are not on your list, Gary, I'd highly recommend Crucial Conversations, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Time to Think. They all gave me different perspectives on how we think. "
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When anyone on the MoTaverse recommends a book, I add it to my read list. (I've only been reading books in the last few years because it is a weakness of mine...to be honest "English Language" is a...
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Book recommendation - The Fifth Discipline
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Book recommendation - The Fifth Discipline
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Security is shifting left into the coding session itself
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Security is shifting left into the coding session itself
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Claude Code Security plugin is reported to cut security-related comments on pull requests by 30 to 40%
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Security is shifting left into the coding session itself
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Security is shifting left into the coding session itself
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Grounding, reviewing and trimming your way to something more reliable
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