Hiccupps

I deliberately make tiny investments in learning opportunities for me and my colleagues.

This post is part of a series showing my working through the 2025 Advent of System Seeing exercises set by Ruth Malan.

This post is part of a series showing my working through the 2025 Advent of System Seeing exercises set by Ruth Malan.

This post is part of a series showing my working through the 2025 Advent of System Seeing exercises set by Ruth Malan.

This post is part of a series showing my working through the 2025 Advent of System Seeing exercises set by Ruth Malan.

This post is part of a series showing my working through the 2025 Advent of System Seeing exercises set by Ruth Malan.

My friend Patrick Prill posted some of his System Seeing practices at the start of the year.

You know when you suddenly discover that you have an internal model of a chunk of the world that's been guiding your thinking and behaviour but you never realised?

How do you test a product with distributed logic and non-deterministic components?

In Looking Good, Testers!

Testing is inherently about looking because, put simply: If you don't look, you're not likely to find.

Over the years I've seen, heard, and been in many conversations about the tools testers must learn.

I'm continuing to be inspired by Patrick Prill's series of posts on the way AI is impacting personal, societal, and economic systems and today that leads me to share another short analogy.

You've almost certainly heard of the Prisoner's Dilemma: two members of a crimimal gang are captured and interrogated separately.

Hands up if you think the world needs another format for retrospectives.

My friend Patrick Prill continues to dissect the growth, use, and risks of AI in our industry at the rate of an article or two a day, each one teasing out a particular thread from the very tangled issue ball.

My friend and colleague Patrick Prill has been writing articles about AI in our industry at a prodigious rate over the last couple of weeks.

In 2024 I wrote a post, An AI Red Light, about a creative project I did with my daughter using both AI and "traditional" tooling.

There was a time when testing was all about the mnemonics.

The Wikipedia page on infinite loops in programming describes them as "a sequence of instructions that, as written, will continue endlessly, unless an external intervention occurs."

I was guest speaker for a software testing class at EC Utbildning a couple of weeks ago.

In Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work Simon Willison writes: As software engineers we ... need to deliver code that works — and we need to include proof that it works as well.

In yesterday's Angry Weasel newsletter, Leadership is a Constant Experiment, Alan Page was explaining how, as a leader, he gets better results by trying things intentionally, in public, in a safe way: But in real work, confidence isn’t the superpower.

Last night I was at the Cambridge Tester meetup for a workshop on leadership.

I bought a belt recently.