Simon Tomes | Activities
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AMA Answer: While the recipe instructions and ingredients are consistent, how is it that the quality outcome of a cake can vary considerably?
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AMA Answer: While the recipe instructions and ingredients are consistent, how is it that the quality outcome of a cake can vary considerably?
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Keeping track
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2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩
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Thanks for sharing your PR dashboard. Great to see real examples.
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"This is excellent, Justin. I hope it inspires others to experiment with something similar. I like the concept of providing information that gathers a team and helps them make decisions.
While I have no knowledge of the context, I wonder if there's an ..."
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While the recipe instructions and ingredients are consistent, how is it that the quality outcome of a cake can vary considerably?
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Upon my AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software moment Simon Tomes asked "While the recipe instructions and ingredients are consistent, how is it that the quality outcome of...
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During stand ups we have a PR dashboard which is a list of open PRs, who is assigned and whether it is in a state of approval or not, as well as listing a bunch of draft PRs no one really cares abo...
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How I built a PR dashboard that flags risky pull requests
awarded Justin Holsgrove for:
How I built a PR dashboard that flags risky pull requests
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The Questions the Community Taught Me to Ask
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2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩
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Definitions of Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
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The Questions the Community Taught Me to Ask
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩
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Thanks for another Call for insights, really enjoyed our conversation.Thanks the good work for the community.
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We still need humans to speak with
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We still need humans to speak with
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Great to chat on a call and share an overview of the MoTaverse. See you soon. 😃
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Thanks for all the updates to the Profile Card view. It was very easy to find the button to award a start to you!
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The Questions the Community Taught Me to Ask
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Stop underselling our work: We build community
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This Week in Community (TWiC) — Episode 4
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2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩
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Yesterday I attended as session by Leandro Melendez on how to build modern performance practices, It was very insightful so I just wanted to share my takeaways with you lovely lot :)Speaker: Leandr...
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Ramping Up to Modern Performance - Key takeaways
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Ramping Up to Modern Performance - Key takeaways
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"Oof!
(love the Blade Runner reference)"
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"I've configured things you people wouldn't believe. IIS settings on multiple local builds. I watched Test pipelines glitter in the dark near the QA Release gate. All those moments will be lost in ...
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I've Configured Things You Wouldn't Believe
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I've Configured Things You Wouldn't Believe
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2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩
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2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩
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2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩2009 me would have no idea that he'd record a conversation with one of the author's of the book that shifted his whole pers...
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2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩2009 me would have no idea that he'd record a conversation with one of the author's of the book that shifted his whole pers...
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AI amplifies the good and the bad, so where should your team start?
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Making sense of the DORA AI Capabilities Model
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Making sense of the DORA AI Capabilities Model
awarded Lisa Crispin for:
Making sense of the DORA AI Capabilities Model
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Making sense of the DORA AI Capabilities Model
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Making sense of the DORA AI Capabilities Model
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AI amplifies the good and the bad, so where should your team start?
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Joined TWiC — This Week in Community chapter
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Meet community people at This Week in Community (TWiC). Tune in for the latest news, discussions, and insights from across the world of community building, connection, and care.
Gather around the community fire for a live conversation as we connect with the people behind the practice, explore what's emerging, and share the passion of those shaping the future of community.
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"Wonderful! 💡"
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When I look at this iceberg, I see my own journey as a tester.
For a long time, I spent most of my attention on what was visible above the surface. Test cases, coverage percentages, pass rate...
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The Questions the Community Taught Me to Ask
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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