An "AI" by any other name
"AI"? You mean......
Maaike Brinkhof
Sad smoke alarm noises
At LLEWT book club yesterday, Sanne Visser said: "Nobody ever gave a smoke alarm an award" and I laughed so hard tears streamed down my face. I think it's recognisable for many testers. There are times when we are warning of what could happen if we
Local goodness
I managed to absolutely surprise myself with this one, but it fits. As most of you might know, I play the clarinet. It's very boring to play the clarinet alone, so I'm in an orchestra. That orchestra needs to be managed, so there is a board.
Thank you
Many thanks to everyone who liked and shared the posts on my blog and LinkedIn where I was announcing that I was searching for a new IT assignment and where I was asking people to not put me in a box.
Don’t put me in a boxI’m trying
Harmful Software Collaborators
Looking for bugs in code that has harmful intentions is like trying to make a shit sandwich taste good. It's futile. It's the wrong focus.
I get it, it's easy to be a harmful software collaborator. Maybe you are still at a point in
The real reason we need to invent a time machine
I was reading a very interesting article in The Guardian: 'All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it': the global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on. At the turn of the millennium, I was a mere 14 years old, and did not know
Don't put me in a box
I'm trying to find a new assignment as a self-employed Test Consultant, and this confronts me with some facets of job searching that I don't really enjoy.
My main complaint is that most roles try to fit you into a neat little box, and I don&