My views on IT & Software Testing
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Infinity Gauntlet, late-stage capitalism edition: Space Stone - let's go to Mars instead of caring for the planet we have. Climate change, who is she? Let's build some more data centers. Mind Stone - let's develop a hallucination machine and call it "intelligent"
Can you tell I'm mad? Here goes: Software testing is always done within constraints, the biggest ones usually being time and budget. Arbitrary deadlines usually put the most pressure on testing, and the allure of taking a shortcut by expediting testing has surely been observed by many of
Thank you for all the responses on my last post, where I told the story of how I got into strength training and got in the best shape of my life this year. The beauty of having muscles This is the story of how and why I decided to pursue
This is the story of how and why I decided to pursue a muscular physique as a woman in my thirties. Most of it was sort of unplanned, but the start of it all has a very common reason: back pain. It's 2018 (I'm 32 years
I can't begin to tell you how often I was met with disdain when I told my colleagues that I studied history. "That's not even a real science!" computer science also isn't a science, bite me. Correct, but that doesn't
I work in IT, but I am a historian. I studied “Language and Culture Studies, with a specialization in the history of international relations” to be exact, but that’s too much of a mouthful, so historian it is! As a historian, you basically study the repeated
For as long as I can remember, I've had contrasting opinions. I never really fit into a group, and can never figure out whether that's a bad thing or not. I want to belong, and at the same time, I don't. Observing from the
The more they want to force me to offload my work to an LLM, the more I'll grab my pen and paper to take notes, take my time to think, to plan my work, to do my work; slowly and thoroughly. The more they want to de-skill
I know that bullshit has won. Nobody in mainstream software developments gives a damn about craftsmanship anymore, as they've all put their faith into the big sloppification machine. Software engineering? Nope, that's for suckers. The only thing left for me to do is to write, to
When you browse LinkedIn, you mostly see people drone on about "AI": How it made them more productive without sacrificing quality. How they fear the pace at which things (tools) are changing and whether they can adapt to what is expected of them (by management, or self-inflicted
One of the best things as a software tester is working with developers. One of the most frustrating things as a software tester is working with developers. The frustration stems from the fact that developers and testers often have completely different thought models around what testing is and isn'
Right now seems like the perfect moment to write about my mission as a test consultant because it seems that a lot of people in tech simply stopped caring. They swallowed the proverbial red pill and are droning on about tools, technology, "AI", speed, productivity. I thought technology
Heavy metal warning! I don't exclusively listen to heavy metal, but yeah, it is my preferred genre. Here are my personal favourite releases of this year, in no particular order. Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness This was a very good "play it in the gym"-album.
Let me jump on a trend for once, yeah? For some reason, I'm seeing the "two wolves" meme making a comeback over on Mastodon, which is admittedly pretty niche as far as social media platforms go. But it made me think! It made me realise that
Let's get this out of the way. AI isn't a technology, it's an ideology . You also cannot separate AI from fascism, eugenics, environmental destruction, imperialism, theft and growing wealth equality . These are my beliefs, and I'm not alone in saying no to
