Simon Tomes | Activities
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Design for All, Continuously: Automate Accessibility & Visual Quality for Your Website
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The Strategic Value of Agentic QA
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Visual Regression Testing Across Locales with Percy and WonderProxy
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Write an API Spec & Scaffold Fast with Postman Agent Mode
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Levels of Autonomy in Software Development: Closing the Gap Between Creation and Confidence
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The Complete Software Development Security Guide
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How quality is created, maintained and lost in complex software systems
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The Emotional Side of Building QA in a Startup
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Prompt Like a Pro: 10 Smart Ways to Hack Your Learning Curve
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Building your product with AI Workshops for Tech Women Week
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Too close to see the canvas – Part 2
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I Vibe Coded an App and Learnt Exactly What I Thought I Would
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Unintended consequences of prompt framing
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Fixing Claude Code's amnesia
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Why training alone is never the solution to ableist behavior
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OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse
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Atlas Ableism
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Mobile Ticketing Accessibility: Buying Haunted House Tickets with a Screen Reader
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"Great to see this, Aditya. Glad you enjoyed it!
And kudos to Rahul for introducing you to it. "
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B A D U X W O R L D C U P
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awarded Rahul Parwal for:
Nice one for recommending The Testing Planet newspaper to Aditya Saxena. Cool to see their photo memory.
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Some mornings start with coffee ☕, but today mine began with a copy of “The Testing Planet – October Edition” by the Ministry of Testing—and it turned out to be one of the most refreshing reads I’v...
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A Lack of Inspiration – Ideas for Community Sessions: Board Games
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Great to see your public collection of videos to watch together with your team. Cool idea. Enjoy!
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Transform your team’s delivery by learning how small, consistent improvements in testing, automation, and collaboration can make everything better for both your team and users
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Change is inevitable, we explore how it is happening
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Got this businesscard from Mark Benson at TestBash, truly living up to his Creative Technologist label. Complete with five test cases to figure out and a hidden easter egg that can only found after...
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What happened to your influence and impact after transitioning to a new role?
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What happened to your influence and impact after transitioning to a new role?
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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