Simon Tomes | Activities
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Councils of agents
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Simple Skills—Strong Leadership
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The uncomfortable truth about job security in tech
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2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned
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Abusing Delegation with Impacket (Part 1): Unconstrained Delegation
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A Hippocratic Oath for tech… with teeth
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The Serenity Protocol: Can Emotional Stability Be Engineered?
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This badge is awarded to members who complete the A beginner's guide to mobile testing course.
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A Lack of Inspiration – Ideas for Community Sessions: Hands On Learning
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AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams
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From MoT London to MoTaCon
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Great to see Gary Shannon host MoTaCon 25. He's put in the effort throughout the year organising and hosting the ever popular MoT London meetup.
Here's Gary backstage preparing some notes befor...
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"Great use of an agent! Thanks for sharing. "
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For a while, I had a few collections of API tests in Postman while I was exploring our API a while ago. We aren't planning to use Postman for API automation and I thought what if I speed up API tes...
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🎉 400+ Stars on Ministry of Testing! 🎉
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A reminder that consistency, curiosity, and community truly accelerate growth.
More learning. More giving. More growing.🌟
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It's wonderful to see you celebrating MoTaCon speakers by watching their talks on-demand and sharing stars. ✨
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The Carlos Kidman walks us through evaluating and observing AI systems.
Watch a tester’s role in evaluating and observing AI systems:
https://www.ministryoftesting.com/testbash-sessions/a-teste...
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Thanks for stepping up to support SQEC.
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Don't make me tap the signs of quality
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A two-panel image meme based on a scene from The Simpsons.
The top panel shows the school bus driver, looking forward with his mouth open. The caption reads: "DON'T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN."
The...
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Occasionally mentioned as QA Cat in the internal Slack (even has his own dedicated emotes)
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- Not Impressed by developers
- Has a brother
- Silent but deadly
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- Ha...
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Thanks for highlighting the lack of visibility of the MoTaCon 26 events page.
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Thanks for sharing an idea about star awarding and profiles on talks.
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Nice one for so quickly pointing Lisa Crispin in the direction of the MoTaCon 2026 event page.
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Apply autism-aware design principles to improve software usability for autistic and neurodivergent people.
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Bug congrats on achieving the "Introduction to HTTP" badge. 🏆What course are you taking next?
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Alias: The Comfort QA-t
Species: Feline (Domesticus Perfectionis)
Alignment: Chaotic Cuddly
Current Assignment: Guardian of the MoTaVerse — Ministry of Testing
Role in the Guardians: Posture of...
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The New Calculus of AI-based Coding
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Thanks for retesting a couple of changes to the MoTaverse Weekly email. Feedback was much appreciated.
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Chris Pratt looks like a very good student
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"Eamon and Ayesha are my answer to the question: Name two quality people who have consistently showed up in 2025? 🤩🤩"
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Eamon Droko and Ayesha Saeed showing off their swag! Postman duck and Bug Mug!
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Tiny Mariem made me chuckle!
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 49
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Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull joined an MoT Auckland meetup. Can you spot them?
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He may or may not have been sharing a joke on 99 second MoTaCon stage.
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We care about quality
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From Friday, the 31st of October, TWiQ or Treat, this week in quality session. I told a horror story of triggering emails that wouldn't stop coming. What was supposed to be one was thousands. We ca...
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From Friday, the 31st of October, TWiQ or Treat, this week in quality session. I told a horror story of triggering emails that wouldn't stop coming. What was supposed to be one was thousands. We ca...
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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