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The beauty of having muscles

This is the story of how and why I decided to pursue a muscular physique as a woman in my thirties. Most of it was sort of unplanned, but the start of it all has a very common reason: back pain. It's 2018 (I'm 32 years

Ignore the humanities at your own peril

I can't begin to tell you how often I was met with disdain when I told my colleagues that I studied history. "That's not even a real science!" Correct, but that doesn't hurt my feelings. Computer science is also not a science,

Essential reading for people who are still responsible and serious in IT

I work in IT, but I am a historian. I studied “Language and Culture Studies, with a specialization in the history of international relations” to be exact, but that’s too much of a mouthful, so historian it is! As a historian, you basically study the repeated fuck-ups of humanity

I am the disruptor.

For as long as I can remember, I've had contrasting opinions. I never really fit into a group, and can never figure out whether that's a bad thing or not. I want to belong, and at the same time, I don't. Observing from the

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,

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

Do you enjoy working in the shit factory?

Let's get this out of the way. AI isn't a technology, it's an ideology. You also cannot separate AI from fascism, eugenics, environmental destruction, imperialism, theft and growing wealth equality. These are my beliefs, and I'm not alone in saying no to

Quality = Engineered + Experienced - explained with fountain pens.

I'm about to make a huge mistake by publishing this post, as today's topic is: quality. Is there a concept, a word, that's more divisive in the software testing community than quality? I have to admit, I have considered writing a book about it.

Why do so many testers have an identity crisis?

Why do so many testers think they aren’t enough? That they should be ashamed of their role? That they should be called something different in order to get the respect they desire and deserve? Well, I can venture a guess! Many other people in our work context hold testing