Irja Straus

😊 That means a lot coming from you. Thank you!

Day 4: @irja.bsky.social

Nominated by @sapphirelinda.bsky.social & @kato-coaching.com

Facing a tough year, stayed supportive, generous & consistently brilliant. She freely shares deep, specialised knowledge & lifts up those around her. A genuinely wonderful human in our community.

#AdvenTesters

Awesome photo. Deserves attention haha

Nice to see you dear Sergio! Send me our photo with an unicorn 😊

It’s always a joy to see you! 😊

You did awesome and it was awesome to hang out with you! See you soon somewhere! Thanks for all the tricks and tips!

Beautiful!

I know the feeling…

I downloaded NBA games to watch offline during the flight and then realized I can only watch them on mobile, not on my laptop. They say they protect illegal broadcasting this way. Eh.

"More than one person doing the same task? Crazy!" - Holistic Testing with Lisa Crispin “More than one person doing the same task? Crazy” is what I have often heard when I tell people about working in pairs and ensembles (aka mob programming and software teaming). Surely two people, each...

So often when I mention pairing or ensembling/software teaming/mobbing, I can tell the person would never even consider trying. Interesting to learn that in other professions, the idea of a cross-functional team collaborating in real time is spreading. lisacrispin.com/2025/06/24/e...

Done with my keynote at DevTalksRomania. I enjoyed 😊

Now enjoying other talks and a great venue.
Place is huuuge and we had 3000 people during the 1st day. 🤯

I took a moment before everyone came and tried to capture some of it. And a mandatory badge picture ofc.

#DevTalksRomania

Never heard of them but now I hear I should have. Vocals are amazing. Thanks for sharing about them!

You raver!

Now when you mentioned this…. 😅

Oh, what the… sounds awful.

This stranger made my day by playing Chopin piano concerto no. 2 at the Bergamo airport . ♥️

I really enjoyed @pejgan.se keynote. She sends a strong message on how we should find our own moral foundation and build software with empathy and ethics in mind. Great closing of another #ExpoQA, at least for me for this time.

I appreciated the key message shared by Sowmya Sridharamurthy on how we can understand our current hunter/farmers mindset in order to leverage our career progression.

#ExpoQA

Liked this story how they found an unicorn in Dutch lottery by Sander van Beek at #ExpoQA

Seems like we both like the same movie :)

#ExpoQA

Really nice talk about automation design patterns by Gaspar Nagy.

#ExpoQA

Really love this performance from @mrsdaehin.bsky.social on #ExpoQA. Really fun and informative talk so far.

Likewise!

This is what friends means 😊 Enjoy your weekend!

I really appreciate practical presentations like this one. And this one was just great.

@coderbyheart.bsky.social thank you for showing your work - for me it was something I can and will use in my work.

#NordicTestingDays

Nice to hear this experience report by @martin-n.bsky.social.

Thanks for your talk!

#NordicTestingDays

Thank you @sapphirelinda.bsky.social for shifting our mindsets this morning and giving us useful tips on how to break out of bad spirals and get into a better place at life and work.

Awesome talk!

#NordicTestingDays

I really admire your dedication to your principles. Be who you are ;)

What a great and special keynote by @liisapast.bsky.social.
It passed in a moment with many laughter and useful tips I can use.
Great closing of the day at #NordicTestingDays

I really had fun and still am. Lovely conference so far!

Thank you!