They will not break me.
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 me,
Maaike Brinkhof
Stop selling gold when all you've got to offer is a process
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
Quality at speed
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 fear
What developers get wrong about testing
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'
My tribe.
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
Favorite albums of 2025
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"
Inside you are two wolves
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