It's always got me that you refer to them as the dark blues, and that photo is shown and looks light blue to me.

The AI Efficiency Trap There's a story about Henry Ford. Ford supposedly wanted to pay his workers enough so they could afford to buy the cars they were building. Whether it's true or not doesn't matter. The point stands: your workers and your customers are often the same people. Now look at what's happening in tech right now. Atlassian just cut 1,600 jobs. Meta is planning to lay off around 15,000 people.

Reinforcement loops are an interesting thing in systems thinking. This week when I heard the news from Atlassian another one of those love reality moments hit me. In today's post I try to roughly sketch the mental model of a system that unfolded in my brain.

You probably need to add a time constraint here, because while I have been multiple times, they were all over 30 years ago.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to sit a corner and cringe because of it.

While I have made myself look like a complete idiot, at least it was only over email to someone I am never going to meet in real life.

Honest answers only

If you were doing a Disney's Hercules quiz, could you go the distance?

Had one hell of a cruise. Everyone I looked at was violently sick.

Sea was perfectly calm though 🤔

Does a fart imply the existence of a neart?

YI

A chatbot but all input and output is in Geordie.

bsky.app/profile/rosi...

I've had this a couple of times. One seemed to be for an internet provider in Singapore, the other was a couple of months ago and was someone in France buying what looked like an airsoft gun and ammunition.

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen.

But do recall, the most famous reindeer of all?

Because if you can't then it is not the most famous, is it?

10 Years in Testing: Then and Now - Cassandra HL Wow, ten years in testing.  It feels both correct and surreal.  A lot of things have happened over the last decade, and reading back over the old X Years in Testing posts is really interesting.  So wh...

This month marks my ten year anniversary as a professional #Tester. With this comes a new instalment of #XYearsInTesting: www.cassandrahl.com/blog/10-year...

I still feel very lucky to have discovered #SoftwareTesting and hope to continue working and growing in this area for many years to come.

The only thing on my list this year is a meaty broth.

All I want for christmas is stew.

You telling me the production makes it sound a little... thin?

The moment you know you are out of touch with modern culture? When you see the Strictly couples and don't know who is the dancer, and who is the celebrity.

Ironically, a limp biscuit wouldn't be able to go rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'

Flash Gordon was ahead of its time. The bit where an ajax request is made to get the body.

MoTaCon does sound like it could be a type of Transformer.

It'd be a bug that turns into a feature.

Image shows Danny giving a Postman demo at the Testbash conference. All the attendees were wearing silent disco type headsets.

Image shows Danny giving a Postman demo at the Testbash conference. All the attendees were wearing silent disco type headsets.

Always a lovely vibe at @ministryoftesting.com Testbash!! ❤️

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the @getpostman.bsky.social sessions.

You all looked 🥰 in your silent disco headsets 🏆

See you all next year!!

Brag Board Template (How to Make Your Work - and Achievements - More Visible) - Cassandra HL This is a companion post to my TestBash 2025 talk on How to Make Your Work – and Achievements – More Visible.   Here, you will find the Brag Board template shown in the talk.   .pdf: Brag Board Templa...

Thanks to everyone who attended my #TestBash #MoTaCon talk on How to Make Your Work - and Achievements - More Visible, and to MoT for having me. You can find the #BragBoard templates here: www.cassandrahl.com/blog/brag-bo... #ShowShareShine

Leaving the bar, I hit the road.

As I lay there, I knew I had drank too much.

Reform are already flagging

Were any of those characters a carriage return?

Slightly diminish a band:

Car Halen

Slightly diminish a band: They Might be Ants

I'm just moving the same code to a different place, what could possibly go wrong?

What could go wrong is some idiot could move it to a class method, not an instance method causing the method to be considered "Not Implemented"

I never thought I’d see the day where developers voluntarily turn themselves into testers, but that’s exactly what they’re doing by inviting LLMs to create outputs from requirements they helped refine which they have to check for errors afterward. Obviously the tester skillset is valuable then.

Access to the @ministryoftesting.com community Slack might be worth the cost of a professional membership alone.

Should rate of spam accounts on your service be considered a measure of success? Because @ministryoftesting.com is doing quite well under that measure.