Brian S

I've been with you the last 24 years, and I don't plan on going anywhere. I have enjoyed your little corner of the web and will keep on doing so, no matter when you update it.

It feels ever weird to make art in times like this, but as someone who remembers history creativity and artists are always things authoritarians want stamped out (unless they will work /for/ them)

An ink drawing of a plant in a decorated flower pot, but in the center of the bloom is a reptilian face.

More drawing.

An ink drawing of a chess piece, a knight. In the background are two books and a corner of a chess board.

After a few months of not drawing, I started again.
Not bad, I think.

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. "I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

I'd be all in if you did AI for help with coding or testing, but using AI for help with stealing art...

No.

Happy New Year!

So many years ago, I read a lot of webcomics. From all of those, I only still read one. Yours. S*P is the only one which grew with me, and even through the bad times... I can still relate. Best of wishes, and I'll be here for whatever comes next.

I have a tester on my team who doesn't call herself technical because she doesn't touch the code, but the technical magic she can perform is amazing even to an old tester/programmer like me.

We did that once, by accident. We had a company meeting that everyone wanted to attend (good news) and there were people working in the meeting rooms, break rooms, 2 per desk... it was chaos. It only happened once.

I've been wanting to document / detail what we did to transition from a 5 day workweek to a 4 day workweek company-wide. The process was much more detailed and fascinating than "How about 1 day less with the same amount of work?"

Maybe more later.

A giant snail with a small simply drawn house. Sketched in pen

I've apparently been here for a year. I haven't posted at all, since I was burned out on the socials, but I still have 100 people looking at me.

I usually look for ways to improve my software testing skills, but lately have been into art as well.

So hello again Blue Sky! Here's a picture I made.

I would imagine that being in the Netherlands, Dutch would reach the majority of your audience, unless you're specifically targetting those who don't do Dutch.

But then again, things might be different in different cities.

I love the UFO one most of all. I might have to get my own.

I had to tell my daughter that she couldn't go because it's on Sunday and 2 hour drive from here. And yes, they're metal as anything.

Not only speakers, but people in general need to know that "I don't know" is a really good answer.

😆🤣😂

I use that mnemonic frequently. It's a good mnemonic.

Me: #$@% what a stupid mistake. Who was the clown that tested this?
Me, 10 minutes later: Oh. I did.
😬

We have another category too... Who originally received the books. My wife keeps "her" books apart from "mine."

To be honest, nobody I would ever be friends with would consider playing with, or wearing, lego a red flag.

Of all the weird things to randomly pop up on my feed, something I probably made is a surprise. (Made as in produced, not designed)

Beginning of article from Scientific American sowing a lovely orange-toned painting of a naked woman running with a spear

Beginning of an article reading "Even if you're not an anthropologist, you've probably encountered one of this field's most influential notions, known as Man the Hunter. The theory proposes that hunting was a major driver of human evolution and that men carried this activity out to the exclusion of women. It holds that human ancestors had a division of labor, rooted in biological differences between males and females, in which males evolved to hunt and provide, and females tended to children and domestic duties. It assumes that males are physically superior to females and that pregnancy and child-rearing reduce or eliminate a female's ability to hunt. Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century and pervaded popular culture. It is represented in museum dioramas and textbook figures, Saturday morning cartoons and feature films. The thing is, it's wrong."

You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

I just lurk here and I am weaning off of FB, which is exclusively pictures of my family's kids and pets. Mostly I post to tester's slack. I don't think I want more these days.

Van lego naar code Wat hebben ons design system 'Duidelijk' en legoblokken met elkaar gemeen? Teamleden Emiel en Silke leggen het uit.

This is from my work. My colleagues have made standard building blocks for most of what we can use in UI development, which saves TONS of effort.

It literally changed days of design, program, test to hours.

ecare.nl/blog-nieuws/...

Not gonna lie, I'm having a hard time building my business alone. Since you often only hear about the winners, I want to share my process (and possible failure) publicly.

If you have advice for me, this is your time to shine. Also, please share this!

open.substack.com/pub/livesens...

Well, I have a plan this afternoon.

I have abandoned twitter. I split my interest groups where my "testing" is here, and my "not testing" was Mastodon. It seems that my "not testing" was quite toxic, and I have since stopped caring about Mastodon.

Now I'm really liking it here, and hope to see it build.

That's a great picture. I haven't seen many of them this year so far... but that may change, it's still early.

I did have a software testing class, which helps... and SQL, which I still use every day. Since my specialty was hardware, my language at the time was C++, and now I use C# and Python... so ... close enough?

Or... very helpful.