Preparing for German Testing Days. 50% ”why do I keep doing this to myself”, 50% ”OMG I can’t believe I get to do this again YAAAAY”

Life with an orange cat: Always check the weird noice from the kitchen. Always. No. It can’t wait. It’s like having 3 kids who were born calm and then the 4 one is just constantly climbing curtains, eating dog poop and testing everything. And he’s heavy. And he prefers sleeping on my legs. 🐈😴💥

I am so incredibly tired of being this incredibly tired. And puberty was enough once, why the f do we have to do it again?!?!

I was SO FUCKING PRETTY and the menace one pushed a half full mug of coffee all over my dress, blazer, table, floor. I was looking SO DAMNED GOOD. Stupid morning. Stupid muscle pack of a cat. Stupid me for thinking he would not. Stupid everything.

Measuring how successful a weekend is by how long I stay in dressing gown would put this in A+ or even S rating.

I managed to figure out how to verify a certain flow today, while my testers were busy doing other important things. I was so proud of myself I had to instantly log off for the weekend while on that high note. (It was complicated. Don’t judge) Also: reverse casual friday in new jeans & cute blouse

Do not approve of orange menace (mine, not the USA-ian one) waking us up at 4.45 because he is bored. Might be slightly less patient with people today. 2/10 would not recommend.

Azir is wishing you all the comforts and naps you deserve.

Someone asked if we got snow. Well. This is what I haven’t managed to remove from the driveway. No idea where to put it 🤣

What a weird year. Anyway - Azir says hi. Nami, Ziggs and Stormy could not be bothered.

Benefit of forgetting a gift for way too long: they get an unexpected Christmas gift! Ho ho ho!

I would have KILLED for these pants when I was in 8-9th grade. Only the super cool kids who had been to fancy places like the states or Stockholm had pants this cool. So of course I had to buy them 🆒👖👶

I finally dragged my ass to the car dealership and test drove a zillion (five) models AND did at least a bit of negotiating. So if nothing weird is found when verifying my giant boat of a car I’ll be switching in a few weeks

I don’t see how anyone can hide behind the ”it’s not making her more money” or ”she’s just fighting for women” anymore. No. She is hurting people. She’s using that money to hurt people. Stop lying to yourself. I don’t care how much I loved those books. She is just pure hatred at this point.

We cleaned up pretty well. #Codelines

My office for the day!

Not my usual Monday morning attire but what does one do… :D

I was incredibly funny, gracious AND set boundaries in an email today. Will not take questions at this point in time, thank you. G’night.

Another of my 38 favourites. When you are caught up in the daily grind, it’s hard to see a way out of it. Reactive works fills whatever void you give it, reflective/proactive work often requires you to carve out time and habits. Writing MORE tests might help. Or just give you more reactive work.

Top 38 illustrations for my talk in Prague this week (yes, they are all my favourite one) Tests (automated in this case) have layers. Layers of depth, purpose. Which layers to use, the size and where on the onion you put them - that’s something YOU need to figure out. don’t blend them into soup

I had a few months of no speaking commitments but today kicks off three conferences in five weeks. Off to Prague! Woop woop! #TesenaFest #TooEarlyButAtLeastIHadCoffee

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!

Why repeat the things you already created when you can create something new instead? My dear friend @pejgan.se will soon be giving our Musical-Keynote again - but with new content. I'm so looking forward to Stockholm and Bilbao!

I am watching people lift very heavy stuff. I’ve never felt more out of place and I seem to constantly be in someone’s way. I deserve a girlfriend 🏅after this

The relief when you find the right combo of painkillers for a particular pain is something I hope most people never have to experience. I hope you all get to live life mostly painfree and think <insert any over the counter pain med you like> works on everything

It’s… kind of rough gaming one-handed. But nothing could make me move my arm

I slept in a pile of cats. If I can just convince grumpy cat to join my life is complete. I had cat on my tummy. Cat on my feet. Cat lying next to me. So much cat. (So little sleep. Who cares)

the babies are here 🥰 Say hi to Nami and Azir

You don’t appreciate the dullness of a really smooth deploy to production until you experience a really shit storm of one. I had forgotten.

I am finding the irony of me struggling to delete this slide very amusing.

I was gonna go through my next talk a few times today but my kids made me do a bunch of garden work yesterday so I am officially doing nothing but be in pain today. (And likely drive them around to find stuff to make the cat climb tree they/we are apparently building) So much easier to buy one

This might be best thing I ever made

If I am spending an obscene amount of time (digitally and with lots of help with reference pictures) hand drawing slides for a talk? Yes. Thank you for asking.

One would think after a zillion tattoos I would be used to the pain but oh dear lord this was painful. But she is a hecking ⭐️ amazing ⭐️ artist. A metric shit tonne left. Deep breaths.

Of the people who detransition, only 4% do it because they actually feel transition is not for them. The rest do it due to outside pressure. That's 0.36% of those who undergo some form of transition.

Getting back into hands-on testing has been a ride. I expected some of my traits to kick in but I did NOT expect to feel so frustrated with not having access to every little thing to FEEL in control. Eh who am I kidding. While writing it I realize I totally should habe expected it.

Hive mind: I have a keynote coming up. I will be talking about ethics. I want to look impressive. I am a 156cm roundish lady with a singing swedish accent. What do I wear. (10cm stilettos are not an option. I will kill myself)

I’m another one who got the opportunity to do this. Did it increase my visibility as a speaker? No idea! But I know for a fact that it created a card deck AND later on a book. It also pushed me to pair more with others. Lots more!

A while ago there was (another) debate about software requiring multi-letter names and/or the firstname - last name format that we should know by now is very … not inclusive. I obv. search like crap - does someone remember and happens to have saved a link to an article, thread, anything?

April in Sweden. The time when you wake up to snow/hail and when you finished breakfast it’s blue sky and sun. Rinse and repeat. And everyone is either removing winter tires too soon or complaining that people remove winter tires too soon when they know second winter is coming. 🌨️☀️🌨️☀️🐣🪻

So: first couple of weeks done at my new assignment. Before starting I was panicking over the possibility that my resume was too outdated and I would fail to land an assignment. I have ”only” done line management roles since… 2017? 1/?

Am trying to loosen stress by fixing stuff up in the garden. I suspect it would work better if I actually liked garden work

Wohoo starting my new assignment on Thursday! What a relief. Also: how an I gonna have time to do ceo stuff now 😂😂🤣🤣

One of my main struggles in consulting has always been that I am not a natural salesperson. And I feel very awkward with casual networking selling. So my version is basically telling people I feel awkward and ask them to let me practise for five minutes. Will hopefully get easier with time 😂🥲

”…the first time you fire (or promote or give bonuses) based on this data is the last time this data will be reliable.” This. THIS… so much this!! This males me remember when I had to push back on using # commits in performance review and how I can’t believe I had to explain why it was bad.

I want to design a … booklet? Pamphlet? Something something… to try to describe the ways of using WHRI. But first I need to get through all of my must do’s. And figure out how to describe shit. And how to make it pretty. And. And. And.

My energy levels since I got sick in December are… fluctuating. To say the least. The amount of resistance I can deal with - about 10%. Dishwasher not working and knowing I could probably fix it if I just was a BIT more knowledgeable - breaking me today. I just want to sleep now. ☠️🍽️🧽🧼🫧

I JUST PUBLISHED MY FIRST ”I’M HIRING” POST!! It’s real!

I am doing a f**** scary thing. I am so <insert any feeling. They all pass within the span of a minute or two>. Heck yeah. Oh no. Oh why not. I guess.

2024 Me: ”I need to slow down” 2025 me: ”of course I should start a new company and be CEO. Of course I can do that and also consult. Of course I can learn automation properly at the same time. Of course I’ll only do keynotes this year. Of course I’ll learn choreography.”