Five for Friday – February 18, 2022

Survived my second Moderna shot this week – had a few hours of general ickyness about 24 hours after the shot, but been great ever since. Here’s what I found in the meantime. First off the wonderful Chris Fenning (who’s The First Minute I’ve mentioned previously) spoke to my team at Unity and blew us…

Yet another busy week in the world, but I still found a few cool things to share. I started Measure What Matters a year ago, but have been reading it regularly recently – it’s settling well with me and I’m learning a lot. I’m late to the party, but I’m watching The Queen’s Gambit on…

I’m happy that my last post generated some discussion. I’m not sure about the rest of the blogosphere, but for some reason I seem to get half or more of the comments privately instead of through the blog comment system. Something I heard from a few people was this comment (anonymity retained). Why don’t you…

I’m a fan of The Pragmatic Programmer, and often use the parable of boiled frogs (which I first read in that book) when talking about organizational change. The concept is simple enough – rather than put the frogs (people) in boiling water (changing everything at once), put the frogs (people) in cool water; then slowly…

I’ve been thinking about how professional testers describe themselves. We have high level labels like Tester, SDET, or Quality Engineer, but beyond those (mostly meaningless) titles, many of us have our own personal missions or visions – the words we want people to associate with us. For example, my twitter bio is, “Long time software…

Happy Friday! Here are a few interesting things I found this week. If you have somehow missed it, the word game wordle is fun, quick, and popular. I’ve played it about 20 times so far, and have managed to guess the word every time. If you enjoy wordle, and like mucking with stuff at the…