My future tech utopia
This is how I would like to interact with technology. It’s a mix of oldskool with a sprinkle of tech that does not yet exist. It's a utopia, so it's not realistic. Don't come at me in the comments with "trololo this
Maaike Brinkhof
"You still look feminine", is not the compliment you think it is
Let's talk about the female body.
The female body is not allowed to just exist without garnering opinions from others. Surprisingly, not only from men. Women also love to comment on other women's bodies. Men love to comment on women's bodies to project their
The secret fifth level of testing
The following drawing was the inspiration for my Testing RPG talk. Excuse its quality, I have never left the "drawing people as figure sticks like a toddler"-stage.
I have contemplated recording the Testing RPG talk and putting it out there for everyone to see, but I share
What if, as a testing community, we’ve been hung up about the wrong thing all this time
Does 2025 Maaike agree with what 2021 Maaike wrote? I found the following in my Apple Notes just now. Read it, and then I'll tell you whether I still agree with my thoughts from 4 years prior. Spoiler: it gets very real! Lots of curse words! I'
The paradox of being a decent person
Everybody thinks they're a better than average driver, and everybody thinks they are a decent person. I too, would like to think that I'm a decent person. If you think I'm an awful person, you might not like reading this post because it'
Neutral Quality is too much to ask for, shitty software is the norm.
As a testing community, we have failed to make software better. And let me be clear, developers have also failed. We are in the same boat here. I firmly believe that most people working in software development teams are trying their best to create a better software product, write readable
Current rotation of notebooks <3
The world may go to shit, but at least I have my lovely notebooks. Do I use handwriting as a way of coping? Hell yeah! My next two blog posts will most likely be serious or rant-y in nature, so why not have an intermission post with an innocent topic?