Simon Tomes | Activities
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Notes on AI Coding Skills & Plugins by Riskhikesh V.
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Notes on AI Coding Skills & Plugins by Riskhikesh V.
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Thanks for joining the TWiQ stage! Great to hear from you. 🤩
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Thanks for joining the TWiQ stage! Great to hear from you. 🤩
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Thanks for joining the TWiQ stage! Great to hear from you. 🤩
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Thanks for joining the TWiQ stage! Great to hear from you. 🤩
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This Week in Quality
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Showing up takes persevilience
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Showing up takes persevilience
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Offer ends on the 31st of August and limited to 25 members.
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Bring your favourite Dev or EM to MoTaCon, on us 😉
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Bring your favourite Dev or EM to MoTaCon, on us 😉
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A while back we created a prompt to help convince your boss to fund your Professional Membership (which includes MoTaCon too).I thought I'd back it up with a meme.So here it is. If the prompt doesn...
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Please send me to MoTaCon
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Please send me to MoTaCon
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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
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1. A Skill is a trail map, not a shortcut.You write it once so your whole team stops re-explaining the same conventions to Claude every single time. Naming rules, locator strategy, definition...
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AI Coding Skills & Plugins - Notes by Rishikesh V.
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AI Coding Skills & Plugins - Notes by Rishikesh V.
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AI Coding Skills & Plugins - Notes by Rishikesh V.
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AI Coding Skills & Plugins - Notes by Rishikesh V.
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AI Coding Skills & Plugins - Notes by Rishikesh V.
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An experimental evening turned into a discussion on how to be a new tester. Managing scripts and what might be next. Of course as Ady was involved there was robust discussion on accessibility! But,...
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Great Summer Social event
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Great Summer Social event
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Great Summer Social event
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Seeing this sign whilst I was out last night, I was reminded of the famous "panda eats, shoots and leaves" joke which demonstrates how adding or removing commas completely changes a sentence from d...
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Punctuation matters. Punctuation. matters.
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Punctuation matters. Punctuation. matters.
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Today has all been about learning new skills. But in this moment I wanted to talk specifically about AI skills. During the course of today I attended an excellent AI chapter event on AI skil...
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Learning new (AI) skills
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Learning new (AI) skills
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Learning new (AI) skills
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Learning new (AI) skills
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Inside the MoTaverse's slow pivot from testing community to tech community
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Member joined TWiQ — This Week in Quality chapter
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Did Anthropic just create a juicy new risk for software testers?
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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
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The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123
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Rainbow vomits and AI Guardrails - Ep 124
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Eggs, toilet seats and fundamental quality career advice - Ep 125
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It depends - Ask MoTaverse Anything - Ep 128
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Quality moments and delicate developer dialogues - Ep 127
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You're absolutely right! I have a love hate relationship with AI - Ep 132
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How clean code led to continuous cleaning - Ep 136
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TWiQ, camera, action: Vibe mapping high value activities - TWIQ Ep 138
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Future platforming conversations, right here, right now - TWIQ Ep 139
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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