Simon Tomes | Activities
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What I Learned About Annotations in Playwright
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'They yanked their own plug': How Co-op averted an even worse cyber attack
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What Even Is Vibe Coding?
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💼 My Job Hunt – A Game of Rejections, Rewrites & Resilience
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Quality Experience: How I Look for Jobs on LinkedIn
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Micro Frontends — The Story So Far
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Why Leaders Resist AI and How to Build Confidence in AI Leadership
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Four Ways Leaders Make Learning Stick
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Overcoming Bugs in Testing Infrastructure with Playwright
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How to become a more connected leader
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Behind the Scenes: Building a Robust Ads Event Processing Pipeline
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Postman launches full support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) — Build better AI Agents, faster
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Real-Time database change tracking in Go: Implementing PostgreSQL CDC
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Debugging, emotional resilience, and mental models
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The Problem of Trun...
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Breaking Barriers: Oculus, the Metaverse, and the Diversity Disconnect
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Fast Isn’t Free
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Get your work recognized: write a brag document
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Power cut chaos in Spain and Portugal caused by 'rare' atmospheric phenomenon, says operator
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Spite-Driven Career Development
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How we scaled Devvit 200x for r/field (part 1)
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In Software, Delivery Is Just the Beginning
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Understanding the Engaged Employee: Traits and Impact on Success
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There are 47 Million Developers in the World
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Google A2A - a First Look at Another Agent-agent Protocol
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Agile meetings
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4 Web Accessibility Issues You Can Fix in 5 Minutes (Or Less)
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The unbearable lightness of big tech
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Creating an Accessibility Statement: A Beginner-Friendly Guide
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The Software Quality Floor
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From frustrated tester to respected quality advisor: The Q.E.D. method
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How to Write Test Cases When You Hate Writing Test Cases
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Equivalence class partitioning and boundary value analysis
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Career progression in testing: the awesome power of influence
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Release notes: Squish 9.0.1: Qt 6.9, Android 15, 64-bit Web
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TBM 356: Product Party Modes
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How to Root Android Phones
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Communicating Security to the C-Suite: A Strategic Approach
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Build a successful IDP (Internal Developer Platform)
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AI model selection for testers
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Rethinking SSI
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Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
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Nostalgia/Back to the 90s - Gary Shannon & Leigh Rathbone - Ep.4
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Inline-Method refactoring considered under-valued
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Validate and Iterate with Quality in Mind
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Five levels of note-taking in meetings
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Performance Testing for Real-Time Apps with TypeScript and Node.js
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The precursor of success with AI: You
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Why Test Engineers Should Understand Unit Test Coverage
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S1.E33: Enhancing Security Testing with exploratory insights
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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