Five for Friday – November 22, 2019

In just under 5 days, I’m giving a presentation on Technical Testing at the Online Testing Conference – http://www.onlinetestconf.com/ If you’re wondering, “WTF is technical testing?” I’ll give you my opinions (as well as some examples) along with the usual angry weasel rants. Here’s the twitter preview if you missed it.

Oh my – another quality post. I’m afraid I’m starting a trend for myself, but I have a story to share. As all gainfully employed workers in the tech field will tell you, we all have side jobs as tech support for all members of our immediate and extended families. This weekend, my mother-in-law opened…

The year keeps puttering along – here are a few things I found interesting this week. I’ve been spending a lot of time recently learning about “FinOps” – the website has some information, but I’m finding a lot of interesting info as I scour the net (book reco coming next week. If you happen to…

Summer is here – or summer is here in spring – not quite sure what it is, but it’s hot. Speaking of hot, check out these hot links I found this week. And that’s it for this week – I hope you found something in these links that you like.

No intro or text this week – just links. I just can’t. https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/10-ways-white-people-can-help-make-black-lives-matter-dg/ https://www.allure.com/story/black-lives-matter-where-to-donate https://www.papermag.com/where-to-donate-protests-minneapolis-2646128317.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/health/protests-racism-talk-to-children-wellness/index.html https://twitter.com/search?q=%22The%20police%20are%20the%20terrorists%22%20(from%3Aqualityfrog)&src=typed_query

For some reason, I have a lot of friends from the UK (could be soccer, could be Microsoft – I don’t know). I hang around them enough to know not to look down when someone says “Pants”, and that “sixes and sevens” have nothing to do with math. Learning the subtleties took time, and I…