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This is the last FfF for 2021 – I’m going to take a few weeks with as little computer time as possible. I’ll be playing Halo Infinite and Fallout 4, reading some of my kindle backlog, and keeping up with new episodes of Hawkeye, The Expanse, and Wheel of Time. In the meantime – here…

When I meet new people, they often ask, “what do you do?” The answer I give initially, and the one I hope to get away with is, “I work at Microsoft.” It rarely works. They inevitably follow up with, “what do you do there?” – which, for better or for worse is a much more…

Note: no direct information on software testing or software engineering is in this post. This is purely a trip report (that happens to be related to a trip I took to talk about testing). As I begin writing this, I’m in the middle of a trip to New Zealand and Australia. The main purpose of…

Happy Friday – here’s stuff you should read. Techcrunch is running a series of articles on Unity. The first one is here – it’s unfortunately pay walled behind a techcrunch membership, but worth a read if you can get to it. Here’s a good question: Is It Time to Do Away with Scrum’s Product Owner…

Back again for five more things you may or may not find interesting I received an advance copy of 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change by Esther Derby, and it’s fantastic and highly recommended. The book is low of fluff and high on pragmatic advice. A few weeks ago I had just installed DashLane and…

Brent Jensen and I found some time together recently to talk about testing. For some reason, we decided to record it. Worse yet, we decided to share it! I suppose we’ll keep this up until we either run out of things to say (unlikely), or until the internet tells us to shut up (much more…