Suzanne

Favorite song right now, can’t pinpoint why exactly..

Happy birthday to me! 🎂

The Jetsons lied to us

Half-Baked, Fully-Shipped: The Bumblebee Moment A cold-stunned bumblebee, a backyard rescue, and fighting the urge to self-edit. Sometimes the small, irrational acts of care matter most.

Still riding high from saving a bee’s life yesterday (brought it back to life with a cup and a heater 🙌)

It flew directly at my face afterwards and I screamed, still awesome. Full story + video: theproductmindedqa.com/half-baked-f...

I love going outside for my daily iced coffee and having it transform into a coffee frappuccino

Using someone else’s computer is like cooking in someone else’s kitchen.

Everything is kind of the same but it still just feels weird.

My CSA just put out a call for donations of money to buy fresh produce at a bulk discount to provide bags of fresh food to families losing SNAP benefits.

Ask yours if they could do the same.

Fake ABC ad: At the request of the president, Abbott Elementary is white now

Just about spit out my coffee when I saw this in my morning newspaper @theonion.com

So sad to hear that Diane Keaton passed 😢 this one hurts just as much as Robin Williams and Anthony Bourdain 💔

Spider sitting in the center of a large web covered in dewdrops, hanging under a roof. Brightly painted wood panels in red, purple, pink, green, blue, and yellow are visible behind the web.

Coming up for air after a busy summer +
wrapping up my first 2 weeks at my new job 🎉

Getting it all down in a blog post soon (🤞) until then, here’s a cool photo I just took of a spider web covered in rain drops against the garage shingles that my kids are painting 😍

Minimum Viable Caring: When Efficiency Costs Us Efficiency drives speed, but at what cost? Some inefficiencies are waste, others hold hidden value and worth protecting.

I saw a feel-good story recently about football players visiting sick kids via robot. It was sweet, for sure. But also.... not?

New post up: theproductmindedqa.com/minimum-viab...

Slightly diminish a band:

Car Halen

This one made me actually lol

Slightly diminish a band:

Matchbox 19

Gosh, it feels good to be back in SF again

excited for a future where I'm simultaneously not-dead-enough to be allowed to have a miscarriage, yet not-alive-enough to keep my own heart and lungs

RSVP to Software Testing Summer Social | Partiful Hey SF/Bay Area testers! 🍻 Ready to debug your social life? Join us for craft brews, new connections, and great conversations. Your co-hosts Susanne Abdelrahman and Tristan Lombard are bringing the co...

SF/Bay Area testers: I’ll be in town next week ✨ If you're around, come hang out!

@tristanlombard.bsky.social and I are hosting a lowkey meetup for some irl connection. Come solo or bring a friend!

📍 San Francisco
📅 Thursday, Aug 14, 6–8pm
partiful.com/e/vC4tmRhHB3...

“A family!! Of birds!!”

Y’all. I died 😂😭🤣🤦‍♀️

“Yeah!!” he says, nodding and staring intently in the same direction he’s pointing.

As we’re driving on the highway, my 6yo points and yells “mom, look there’s a whole family on that roof!”

Kind of concerned? I screen the rooftops where he’s pointing and make sure, because I can’t find anyone: “a family??”

The Criminal Enterprise Run by Monkeys A cabal of furry thieves snatch iPhones and other valuables from visitors to a temple in Bali–and trade them for mangos

Timeline cleanse? 😆

“What drugs are you guys on? Smaller doses please” will now be my default response to so many things 😂😭🙏

When Quality Work Doesn't Land (And Other Things I’ve Been Thinking About) New MoT article, great reads on metrics, gender-inclusive accessibility, and testing leadership, and internet rabbit holes worth falling into.

Post + links: theproductmindedqa.com/when-quality...

Have been watching @ministryoftesting.com's Leading With Quality convos too. @jennydoesthings.bsky.social's energy is contagious! And her push for QA leadership community really stuck with me.

Read the latest Testing Experience magazine, @lisacrispin.bsky.social's article on how to *not* use metrics was very relevant, and @the-qa-guy.bsky.social's article on gender & accessibility testing is one every tester should read.

Between summer chaos, family travel, and interviews (2 this week! 🤞) I finally had time to write a little catch-up on my blog ✨

Yay?

I’d love to know what this brings up for y'all! Especially if you’ve been the first QA hire on a team or helped make that hire and seen it go sideways 🫠

When hiring software testers doesn't work (and what to do BEFORE you hire them) Find out what’s really behind testing hires that fail (hint: it’s rarely because the tester couldn’t handle the job!)

I unpack this (and what teams that *do* get value from QA do differently) in my article on @ministryoftesting.com: When hiring software testers doesn't work (and what to do BEFORE you hire them)

(It’s a free read - no membership required.)