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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · 2d

MoTaCon does sound like it could be a type of Transformer.

It'd be a bug that turns into a feature.

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Danny Dainton @dannydainton.bsky.social · 10d

Always a lovely vibe at @ministryoftesting.com Testbash!! ❤️

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the @getpostman.bsky.social sessions.

You all looked 🥰 in your silent disco headsets 🏆

See you all next year!!

Image shows Danny giving a Postman demo at the Testbash conference. All the attendees were wearing silent disco type headsets.

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Cassandra H. Leung (she / they) @cassandrahl.com · 10d

Thanks to everyone who attended my #TestBash #MoTaCon talk on How to Make Your Work - and Achievements - More Visible, and to MoT for having me. You can find the #BragBoard templates here: www.cassandrahl.com/blog/brag-bo... #ShowShareShine

Brag Board Template (How to Make Your Work - and Achievements - More Visible) - Cassandra HL

This is a companion post to my TestBash 2025 talk on How to Make Your Work – and Achievements – More Visible. Here, you will find the Brag Board template shown in the talk. .pdf: Brag Board Templa...

www.cassandrahl.com

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · 28d

Leaving the bar, I hit the road.

As I lay there, I knew I had drank too much.

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Sep 10

Reform are already flagging

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Aug 13

Were any of those characters a carriage return?

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Aug 13

Slightly diminish a band:

Car Halen

Susanne Abdelrahman (she/her) @theproductmindedqa.bsky.social · Aug 13

Slightly diminish a band:

Matchbox 19

403 FORBIDDEN @joshgrant.online · Aug 13

Slightly diminish a band:

Kinda Big Sea

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Aug 13

Slightly diminish a band: They Might be Ants

Simon Tomes @simontomes.com · Aug 13

Slightly diminish a band: Depeche Mod

Mint Royale @mint-royale.com · Aug 13

Slightly diminish a band: Three Tet

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Jul 25

I'm just moving the same code to a different place, what could possibly go wrong?

What could go wrong is some idiot could move it to a class method, not an instance method causing the method to be considered "Not Implemented"

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · Jul 22

I never thought I’d see the day where developers voluntarily turn themselves into testers, but that’s exactly what they’re doing by inviting LLMs to create outputs from requirements they helped refine which they have to check for errors afterward. Obviously the tester skillset is valuable then.

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Susanne Abdelrahman (she/her) @theproductmindedqa.bsky.social · Jul 18

Access to the @ministryoftesting.com community Slack might be worth the cost of a professional membership alone.

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Jul 12

Should rate of spam accounts on your service be considered a measure of success? Because @ministryoftesting.com is doing quite well under that measure.

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Jul 4

If you saw the code for the feature I'm working on, you'd be able to tell I just re-read 99 Bottles of OOP

sandimetz.com/99bottles

99 Bottles — Sandi Metz

sandimetz.com

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Susanne Abdelrahman (she/her) @theproductmindedqa.bsky.social · Jun 9

Just got out of a chat about leading with quality with the one and only @rosiesherry.com!! It was so much fun ☺️

(And also, I’m feeling a little star struck 🤩)

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · May 29

I don't get the point, because I parried it before it stabbed me.

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Cassandra H. Leung (she / they) @cassandrahl.com · May 16

Woah, I've been awarded 23 Community Stars and earned 16 badges in the #MoTaverse! Great to see these achievements appear on my Ministry of Testing profile. Have you created yours yet?

www.ministryoftesting.com/p/cassandrahl

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · May 16

Perfect is the enemy of getting other important shit done.

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Susanne Abdelrahman (she/her) @theproductmindedqa.bsky.social · May 2

And now i’ve sent an article off to @ministryoftesting.com for editing and… wow. I’ve gone from riding the emotional Cyclone (shoutout to Brooklyn!) to Kingda Ka 💀🎢

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Apr 26

Have a fun run Danny!

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Apr 15

I do Object Oriented Programming, in that the computer objects whenever I try to run it.

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Fiona Reavley @aquabassgirl.bsky.social · Mar 13

Just seen the @ministryoftesting.com lineup for #TestBash #2025 in Brighton in October and I am already both excited and impatient for the fantastic set of talks it looks like it will present… now to try and get to attend!

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Mar 10

What a difference a weekend makes. Hours banging my head against the wall on Friday, found and fixed my problem in half an hour this morning.

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Mar 7

This has been my day. It'll probably be my Monday as well.

meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · Mar 7

Ughhh I bloody love debugging, especially when it’s a disgustingly obscure tricky one 🥵

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Andrew Morton @andrewrtmorton.com · Feb 25

If I ever make a game, I will title it One Play and the sequel would be Two Play. I'd be hoping to make it a quadrilogy.

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meg 🌸 @cactusflamingo.bsky.social · Feb 20

Just want to give a shout out to this glorious little integration test which saved my arse from unwittingly breaking a bunch of stuff. Well done, you legend, you’re the best!

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