A good tester is a good communicator. I will die on this hill.
The big problems in tech often have nothing to do with tech, but with communication. Better git gud at it!
Testit Conference Recap
What was it like giving two talks in one day? Plus answering the most common questions!
My new superpower at work
I’ll talk about what I do first and about the tool I use last, because y’all start salivating as soon as a specific tool is mentioned. I found that out when I wrote a short post on LinkedIn about my newfound superpower at work. People in the comments
Starting a new IT assignment is like solving a jigsaw puzzle…
It’s just that:
– you don’t know how many pieces the puzzle has
– whether you need all the pieces
– which part of the jigsaw puzzle is relevant for your role
Why don't you hear what I say? (LLEWT 2024)
LLEWT 2024 was a peer conference with the theme “communication” that happened a few weekends ago in North-Wales. Dear reader, it was quite the trip to get there! A boat, an extremely shitty English hotel and a long car ride later we finally arrived in Wales. It took us about
"Good vibes only". How about you learn how to cope?!
I was at LLEWT last week, a peer conference on Anglesey, north Wales, where the theme was: communication. My report, “Why don’t you listen to what I say” was chosen by the content moderator. I’ll write about that topic on a separate occasion, because right now I feel
Stop trying to make refactoring happen, it's not going to happen.
I went to Joy of Coding yesterday, a one-day conference in Rotterdam. Two of the talks were about refactoring. One talk called it “mending code”, and zoomed in on this rather strange phenomenon in IT: we’d rather demolish some code and write it new and fresh, than fix the