66 found. Including this one hiding in my skylight

I’ve found 61 so far, from those in plain sight to one hidden in my freezer. Expect I’m going to be finding them for weeks 🙈

My sister dog sat at my house this weekend. I came home to this…

The Quality Duck - Stuart Thomas - Engineering Manager Stuart Thomas - Engineering Leadership with a side of Quality Evangelism - Passionate about helping others be the best version of themselves.

Welcome all my recent new followers, and thank you @ministryoftesting.com for including me on your starter pack.

If you aren’t already familiar with my blog, go check it out www.thequalityduck.co.uk I write posts about anything and everything connected to software and leadership.

PICO PARK:Classic Edition on Steam PICO PARK:Classic Edition is a cooperative local multiplay action puzzle game for 2-10 players.

Pico park can be played as a couch co-op. It needs a pc but would run on a potato, and the local play only version is free store.steampowered.com/app/461040/P...

Bit of Laura Marling this morning, mostly Alas I cannot Swim.

Tagged you in a post that should explain :)

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Risk vs Effort: How to prioritise based on Risk Risk based prioritisation is an essential part of managing workload in software testing. Learn how to use a Risk vs Effort matrix to support prioritisation.

Risk based prioritisation is an essential part of managing workload in software testing. Learn how to use a Risk vs Effort matrix to support prioritisation.
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Ministry of Testing have put together an awesome list of amazing people! Go give them all a follow!

Testing AI – How to do Observability of Your LLM right In this final post of my Testing AI series I take a look at LangSmith. A powerful observability and monitoring tool for AI and Large Language Models.

Final post (for now) in my series of posts looking at Testing AI. This post focusses on LangSmith, an LLM observability tool from LangChain

Thanks again to @ministryoftesting.com for the inspiration to learn more about AI and LLMs its been really enjoyable.

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Time for my third installment on Testing AI. In this post I look at using TruLens.

TruLens a specialist LLM tool that provides a framework to help objectively measure the quality and effectiveness of LLM-based applications using feedback functions.

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Picard management tip: In a strange new environment, be wary of making changes until you understand more about what's going on.

A few weeks back I was annoyed on linkedin. Again.
Another year (month..) - another manel.

Me, Emna Ayadi and theywrestletest.bsky.social decided to blog about it.

Here’s my part: testing.pejgan.se/diversity-in...

The second post in my series about testing AI is now live. In this post I look at using Playwright to automate prompt testing.
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Inspired by the @ministryoftesting.com 30 days of AI in testing, I have just published my first post in a series around Testing AI. This post covers how to run an LLM locally www.thequalityduck.co.uk/testing-ai-h...

Put together some draft blog posts today. Realised I now have 13 posts in various state of draft 😬 really should get around to finishing writing some of them.

Whatever the underlying reason, I am sorry you are having to deal with that. I’d be tempted to let them run a few and then fry again though, and see what the engagement is with you or the PM doing it again. I’d maybe go as far as doing a retro if some kind of it’s poor engagement again.

Best of luck with whatever the future holds! Am sure someone will snap you up.

Hello, World! The best of Esoteric Languages Esoteric languages are mind boggling and a lot of fun, even just writing Hello World! Come check out my 5 favourites.

I saw a YouTube video about esoteric programming languages recently. It sent me down a deep hole of reading about and playing around with a few, so I wrote a blog about writing hello world in some of my favourites. www.thequalityduck.co.uk/hello-world-...

Well now it’s open, it’s about time I checked this place out. Looking forward to building a network amid excellent test, quality, and engineering folk.