Podcast Episodes

Simon Tomes returns to Into the MoTaverse for a six-month check-in with Rosie on Community as a Service, care, joy, and the slow pivot to becoming a tech community.

A 'good problems' episode about production-testing drama, MoTaverse growth, new voices, lifelong learning, and how community conversations help people keep going.

A community-led episode on job hunting, scaling quality engineering, authentic career growth, AI adoption, gaming, and the value of staying connected when the industry feels noisy or uncertain.

A celebratory 'wins' episode full of community milestones, personal breakthroughs, bug catches, career confidence, and the many small moments that keep the MoTaverse moving.

Stephen Platten, The Stoic Tester, joins Rosie to unpack how Stoicism, critical thinking, and spotting logical fallacies help testers navigate AI slop and governance gaps.

A hot-takes episode on AI dependency, community knowledge sharing, silos, and why exploratory testing matters more than ever as software teams move faster.

Principal Developer Advocate Adriana Vilela joins Rosie Sherry to explore tech careers, observability, OpenTelemetry, AI slop in open source, and why quality is still a very human job.

A thoughtful, vulnerable episode about grief, identity, AI, writing, and the emotional cost of trying to influence quality in organisations that don’t always listen.

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.

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.

Live experimentation, technical glitches, and community challenges along the way