Maaike Brinkhof's blog

Infinity Gauntlet, late-stage capitalism edition: Space Stone - let's go to Mars instead of caring for the planet we have.

Can you tell I'm mad?

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.

This is the story of how and why I decided to pursue a muscular physique as a woman in my thirties.

I can't begin to tell you how often I was met with disdain when I told my colleagues that I studied history.

I work in IT, but I am a historian.

For as long as I can remember, I've had contrasting opinions.

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.

I know that bullshit has won.

When you browse LinkedIn, you mostly see people drone on about "AI": How it made them more productive without sacrificing quality.

One of the best things as a software tester is working with developers.

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.

Heavy metal warning!

Let me jump on a trend for once, yeah?

Let's get this out of the way.