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The courage to be disliked: what it means for community builders
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Explore Adlerian psychology's take on community feeling, from self acceptance to confidence in others, and what it means for community builders
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I built Decrypt the Narrative for a university hackathon. The idea was pretty simple: take a hidden narrative, smash it into individual words, then make teams call an API to collect the pieces and ...
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Want to practise API testing? Try an API that lies to you
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Want to practise API testing? Try an API that lies to you
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The search for the lost code, best chair and the magic of MoTaCon
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And all I could think about was Bug on a Bicycle.Source:https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026-8-11-what-do-bugs-on-bicycles-vacant-storefronts-and-the-loneliness-epidemic-have-in-common
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Thank you for freeing up a space for someone else to attend Leading With Quality. We're sorry you can no longer make it and MoTaCon. We'll see you another time and will be sure to upload lots of photos.
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Inside the MoTaverse's slow pivot from testing community to tech community
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Throwback Wednesday: Team day out huddles at MoTaCon
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Took this photo of the MoneyBox team deep in debrief during the end of TestBash 2024 in Brighton. The cool thing about a conference like MoTaCon is that you can make it a proper team day out. ...
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Grow with the new MoTaverse profile page
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Thoughts before MoTaCon: You are invited to a testing party, bring a Bug
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Thoughts before MoTaCon: You are invited to a testing party, bring a Bug
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Continuing with an experiment. Let's look at the talk and workshop descriptions of MoTaCon 2026 and share my thoughts and reflections before the talk/workshop has happened. And then, hopefully, sh...
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A while back I wrote about 20% AI time. Where the TLDR is that it felt too risky to drop everything to adopt AI, and instead an intentional, consistent and throughtful approach made more sense. We ...
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Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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