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Podcast Episodes

When quality becomes infrastructure - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 23 image
  • Abby Bangser's profile
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
Principal engineer Abby Bangser explains how platform engineering shifts quality feedback into the infrastructure layer. And why that's a massive opportunity for quality engineers.
What you feed AI matters more than how you ask - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 22 image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Adam Davis's profile
Adam Davis explains why observability, not prompt engineering, is the real challenge in AI-assisted projects, using his phone-display art project Pixelmesh as a live test bed.
Future platforming conversations, right here, right now - TWIQ Ep 139 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Gary Hawkes's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
Live experimentation, technical glitches, and community challenges along the way
TWiQ, camera, action: Vibe mapping high value activities - TWIQ Ep 138 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Gary Hawkes's profile
  • Preeti Gupta's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
This Week in Quality enters a new, cameras-on format
Coding velocity is not delivery velocity. We explore why. image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • SmartBear's profile
  • Dan Faulkner's profile
SmartBear CEO Dan Faulkner on the quality gap created by agentic coding, why intent validation is quality's next big role, and what BearQ is trying to do about it.
Hot, flaky, and unfinished - Testing, accessibility, and the grief we don't talk about - Ep 137 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Oleksandr Romanov's profile
  • Clare Norman's profile
  • Judy Mosley's profile
Judy and Clare trade spicy hot takes, from notification overload and 'done > perfect' learning, to a passionate deep dive on accessibility as a moral (and business) imperative.
Community is the AI for Humans: Rahul Parwal on Navigating the AI Noise - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 19 image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Rahul Parwal's profile
Rahul Parwal and Rosie Sherry discuss how quality professionals can navigate AI adoption, avoid the noise, and find where human skill still matters most.
How clean code led to continuous cleaning - Ep 136 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Nadja Schulz's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
  • Rolf Kunisch's profile
Clean code, messy legacy, and good products. Demi, Simon, Rolf, Nadja and the TWiQ crew get into it all.
Solve Problems That Matter - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 18 image
  • Amy Phillips's profile
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
Amy Phillips on what fifteen years in tech taught her about quality, ownership, and why removing things is just as important as building them.
Quality thinking and the role of epistemology - Ep 135 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Shawn Vernier's profile
An exploration of how epistemology underpins quality thinking, helping quality people examine what they know, how they know it, and how that shapes their quality choices.
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