Get the ideas out! The CfP for #AgileTD 2026 starts in 23 days! :smiley: ➙ days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com 📃 💡 📽️

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s being scared and doing it anyway

Dass auch die Mathematik für allerlei Überraschungen gut ist, belegt Mordechai Ben-Ari in seinem wunderbaren Buch. In digitaler Form ist es zudem frei zugänglich. Eine Rezension

Ein eindeutiger Bruch des Völkerrechts ist für Merz zu komplex. Die Einordnung von Menschen in beleidigende Stereotype fällt ihm da leichter.

LLMs wie ChatGPT wirken beeindruckend, aber sie besitzen Null Intelligenz. Mein Lieblingsjoke zu LLMs illustriert das perfekt.

Looks like more snow shovelling in the driveway may not be needed: I barely made it back into the driveway, even though it was only the last 40m the caused the trouble. Thankfully 🙏, neighbours helped with shovels and push starting the car the small uphill street. & now, back to #SoftwareTesting 😃

"Die Hersteller reagieren auf die Vorwürfe bislang eher defensiv und verweisen auf ihre Nutzungsbedingungen. Ein Google-Sprecher erklärte, das Unternehmen habe klare Richtlinien gegen sexuell explizite Inhalte" #Bullshit-Bingo #Don'tGiveAFuck t3n.de/news/google-...

My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt

in 2026, may you find the community you need, the projects that fulfill and sustain you, and all the messy salty crunchy cheesy snacks your heart desires

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

There is no boolean so simple that I won't get it wrong at least once in the space of a few hours of programming. Therefore, I work in tiny steps and lean on tests.

Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby

Ruby has a new moving GC. I just merged moving Immix in the MMTk Ruby binding. This is exciting as its the first GC that dynamically detects fragmentation in the heap and performs defragmentation. Performance isn't too great yet but I'm working on it! github.com/ruby/ruby/pu...

Only a matter of time before some dipshit launches their Saruman start up

Flaky tests aren't a testing failure. They're a leadership failure. If the system isn't designed for Operability and Observability, the script never stood a chance. Stop fighting the script. Start demanding better design. Read more: testingil.com/2025/12/stop... #Testability #QA #DevOps #Leadership

Every x'mas day, the #Ruby core team releases Ruby - and soon after, we get the RubyInstaller for #Windows and I try to update my post for installing #RubyOnWindows. It's ready - full instructions for Ruby 4.0 on Windows: notepad.onghu.com/2025/ruby4.0... #Programming

According to Trump, I’m radical left scum. If you’re also radical left scum, then let’s follow each other and fight this regime together.

Before everyone leaves for X-Mas (or other reasons): Have a great, healthy and peaceful time! ☮️ 🥗 (I declare the salad with onions, cucumber and tomato as the official healthy-emoji) And have a fantastic year 2026!

A foggy day at the North Sea on Nordstrand in December 2025. Going for a – short! – swim in 6°C water. (And then to the public pool for a longer swim in water that's 20 (℃) degrees warmer.) #OpenWaterSwimming

Thanks 🙏 & kudos 🙇 to everyone involved in the new look of the #Ruby home page ➙ www.ruby-lang.org

The new website looks so good!! I think it looks even better in dark mode on mobile! The animations are so smooth and so good!!

I made it. To be specific: I made it on an advertisement photol. (If you find it on the net: Kudos to your search-fu!) 😃 I never expected to become a photo model. 🤣 — No, I'm not planning to change careers. 😆

I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 using #Ruby ➙ adventofcode.com/2025/day/7 #AdventOfCode

I've completed Part One of "Trash Compactor" (Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025) ➙ adventofcode.com/2025/day/6 in #Ruby #AdventOfCode

I've completed Part One of "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5

Aahhh, my train from #Husum to Hannover ends in #Hamburg. Other passengers who wanted to go to Stuttgart on this train… are not amused. Damm it, I'll have to change trains & will be delayed by a good while. Good Grief, #DeutscheBahn another #DBakel 🙄

If you're curious what it takes to run #AdventOfCode every year, I have a talk called Advent of Code: Behind the Scenes that you might enjoy: youtu.be/uZ8DcbhojOw

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com/2025/day/2 #AdventOfCode in #Ruby

In case you need it: I made a calculator that tells you how long until the daylight increases again. Hang in there! benholmen.com/sunlight

Yay, I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 ➙ adventofcode.com/2025/day/1 #AdventOfCode in #Ruby

Good news: Agile Testing Days 2026 (@agilemanc.bsky.social) starts in 355 days ➙ days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com #agileTD

#AgileTD travelling preparation, step 1: Print packing checklist ✅

Oh, the first snow this season… 🤷

5 —  Five! Day until the #AgileTD, that is. ➙ days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com Super exceited already. And I have collected stuff from the previous 80ies-costume-party. The long hair from those times is long gone though… 🤣

Since it just received another small update: days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com ➙ OMG it's only 10 (ten!) days to go. If you go there: What are your plans? #agileTD

A speaker at a conference saying "if I say ChatGPT I mean use your favourite LLM, regardless if it's ChatGPT or Copilot or Deepseek or grok" I'm sorry but one of those is not like the others and if the speaker can't see that it worries me. A lot.

"For the last time, you need to go to the office because we value human connection! Got it? Good. Now let's talk about how you should outsource all your written communication and decision-making to AI..."

Und die #CDU so:

Not much to see during today's afternoon swim 🌊🏊‍♂️🌊 – a bit foggy, 8°C in the air, 9°C in the water. #OpenWaterSwimming #NorthSea

There's a free iOS app called BitCam which only takes pictures like this, and I absolutely love it. Takes me back to my earliest days with the first Mac I ever owned, a Mac Plus.

State of planning: Updated days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com - only 16 days left. Got my spectacles (ther's GOOD). Been to the hairdresser 💇. 😃 What's left: 2 weeks until @agiletdzone.bsky.social, packing for a week in Postdam … & deciding how to get there. … 1/2

Yay! I can (and will) pick up the new spectacles later. Not sure I'll look any better, but sure will see better. 👓

With #inktober done for this year, I'll enjoy a month of quiet (well, that and @agiletdzone.bsky.social 😃) before #AdventOfCode in December. Have a great weekend everyone!

I found a quick article about the screen reader issue: business.scope.org.uk/accessibilit...

1/3 It's Official: Inktober COMPLETE! 📜 Wow. A massive, thank you to every single one of you who followed, cheered, liked, and commented on my daily drawings this month. Seeing the support grow has been truly motivating. #Inktober While the Inktober challenge may be over, the drawing isn't stopping!

#Inktober2025, Day 31: Prompt word: #Award There you are: The 31-Inked-Drawings-in-October award you deserve. 🏅 Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink #Inktober

#Inktober2025, Day 30: Prompt word: #Vacant A table at one of my favourite cafés, so vacant it doesn't even have a background. 😜 Kaweco fountain pens, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink #Inktober

A clear case of 'harumph'… The good news in the bad news: My optician could put the glasses in another frame, so I still have glasses over the long weekend (tomorrow's a public holiday in my state). Phew.

#Testing #training: Challenge yourself by continuing your professional development with AST. https://associationforsoftwaretesting.org/bbst-black-box-software-testing-courses/foundations/