Bill Matthews

Same here...lots of migratory geese flying over but it's still warm out most days...20 degrees today.
Trees are looking autumnal though which is nice

😂 bumping into friends unexpectedly is always a joy.
Have fun buddy

Enjoy!

Prof Maryna Viazovska, Mathematician Maryna Viazovska is a mathematician known for her work in sphere packing and only the second woman to win the Fields Medal.

Maryna Viazovska, Марина Вязовська, is a mathematician known for her work in sphere packing, which explores how to pack spheres in the densest way possible in a given number of dimensions. In 2022, she became only the second woman to win the Fields Medal. adalovelaceday.subst...

Lovely new album released today from Wolf Alice

Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own ALD event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, silent disco, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless!

They were a find for me this year and quite enjoyed the album

I'd forgotten about having a schedule...I take my wife to & from work so my day tends to be bookended by those events

I have a home office that I work in and don't work elsewhere in the house. At the end of a day I just close the door and don't go back in there until the next day...unless I want a book to read

The Quality Coach's Handbook The book explains the quality coach role, provides quality coach workshops with instructions and templates, and offers ideas on how to think about quality in modern engineering companies. While many a...

My book, The Quality Coach's Handbook, will be available for purchase on the 31st of May. Pre-register here (you'll be in good company 🙃)

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Maybe it's because I like learning how systems work so pattern for solving problems are interesting to me

Personally I think each of Alex Xu's books are worth getting

You might find it useful to focus on learning different patterns for these types of problems. Makes solving them a bit more interesting.
I found this book an interesting resource www.amazon.co.uk/Coding-Inter...

Ada Lovelace and the future of women in tech Join us to learn about the world’s first published computer programmer.

Join me at Tech4Good Notts to find out why DEI is still important, even for start-ups and scale-ups, some simple but effective first steps in DEI, and a bit about current and new equality laws.

Fri 16 May, 11:30 BST, online, tickets free: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

🚨 Meta wants its 1 billion+ users to befriend its AI chatbots. Why? AI chatbots can be extremely manipulative and foster dependency, giving Meta full control over its users. Shocked? Read on:

Thanks for these....I'll check them out. Definitely in need of some new authors to explore

Oh Robin Hobby is one of my all time favourites! Read Ursula le Guin in My youth. Will check out the other two thanks

Which female fantasy authors would you recommend?

Spent 15hrs listening to Way of the Kings (about 1/3 of the book) - kind of liked it but eventually gave up due to the pace of the story.

Oh I thought it was a female author...must have misread the post🙂
Read a few by Brandon Sanderson but found them overly long and slow moving....I appreciate it takes time to build the world and characters.

Who is the author?

I’m really excited to have this opportunity to work again with @annemariecharrett.com! Join us at ATD and learn from her unbeatable combination of leadership experience and teaching, writing about, & implementation of quality coaching. (I bring some useful experience & knowledge to the table too…)

Creating value through testing: a woman's journey in tech An inspiring, non-traditional journey into software testing.

Creating value through testing: a woman’s journey in tech with Katerina Ragkousi

Friday release: a new talk from 🇬🇷 MoT Athens has just been added to the MoTaverse:

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Fancy winning a FREE trip to POST/CON 2025 in Los Angeles?

Join our Postman Discord server, head to the #challenges channel and check out the full details!!

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Transform from Tester to Trusted Quality Advisor: The Q.E.D. Method | LinkedIn Are you tired of being seen as "just the person who finds bugs"? Join this free LinkedIn Live session to discover how to transform your role from frustrated tester to trusted quality advisor who drive...

Fancy hearing more about my Q.E.D. - question - evidence - develop framework? Join me for a Linkedin live next week, 2. April!

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What a fab line up!

The headshots of the keynote speakers at the AgileTD

Here is it! The keynotes @agiletdzone.bsky.social
Don’t miss out and be part of this edition!

Agile Testing Days!

Book Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

This book is not good escapist reading while we are being persecuted by male oligarchs, and it isn’t news to me, but it’s extremely well written and researched. Highly recommend and your library probably has it. (Will books like this get banned in our “great” new country?)

Not recently but had my nephews to stay a while back...after 2 days with them...the youngest asked "uncle bill, why do you have black bit under your eyes" 🤣

Fab!