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Why I don't want to be in a WhatsApp group with boomers

Why I don't want to be in a WhatsApp group with boomers

Almost everyone I know is in at least a couple of group chats on messaging apps. Here in Europe, WhatsApp (by Meta) is still the most popular choice to run a group chat. My second orchestra also put every member in a WhatsApp group, but unlike my main orchestra, they

An "AI" by any other name

An "AI" by any other name

"AI"? You mean......

Sad smoke alarm noises

Sad smoke alarm noises

At LLEWT book club yesterday, Sanne Visser said: "Nobody ever gave a smoke alarm an award" and I laughed so hard tears streamed down my face. I think it's recognisable for many testers. There are times when we are warning of what could happen if we

Thank you

Thank you

Many thanks to everyone who liked and shared the posts on my blog and LinkedIn where I was announcing that I was searching for a new IT assignment and where I was asking people to not put me in a box. Don’t put me in a boxI’m trying

Harmful Software Collaborators

Harmful Software Collaborators

Looking for bugs in code that has harmful intentions is like trying to make a shit sandwich taste good. It's futile. It's the wrong focus. I get it, it's easy to be a harmful software collaborator. Maybe you are still at a point in

The real reason we need to invent a time machine

The real reason we need to invent a time machine

I was reading a very interesting article in The Guardian: 'All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it': the global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on. At the turn of the millennium, I was a mere 14 years old, and did not know

Don't put me in a box

Don't put me in a box

I'm trying to find a new assignment as a self-employed Test Consultant, and this confronts me with some facets of job searching that I don't really enjoy. My main complaint is that most roles try to fit you into a neat little box, and I don&