Kristoffer Nordström @kristoffer_nordstrom@sw-development-is.social

Today's a good day since I get to go outside for a cup of coffee with my wife and start a new book by Adrian Tchaikovsky ( @aptshadow ) that she gave me for Christmas ❤️📙🎄

Gave my wife this year's Christmas gift that I made (I played it safe and gave her books as well just in case 😅) Mystery wood donated by two different friends and walnut inside. Self made hinges from copper bar.

You don't want to miss another episode of "9 out of 10 testers" - Live in... well now..

9 out of 10 testers - Festive Rants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgSEXpkcsA

I'm happy to announce that the Association for Software Testing (@AST) has graciously become a sponsor of sw-development-is.social.

They're covering hosting costs for the coming year with the intent to help this instance serve as a vibrant and safe place for testers and developers to talk about the theory and practice of our work, have a laugh, provide support, feel supported, and gain access to the Fediverse.

We just had to buy a new dishwasher and had it installed yesterday. So now I look forward to the coming 6 months of dishwasher advertisements in my online life.

Today I'm organizing an end-of-year #retrospective for my team and I've decided we're doing a "Marie Kondo" theme. Let's see how it goes.

⭐ What Sparks Joy?
Thank You & Goodbye
♻️ Things to Up-Cycle

Take a moment to read the CoC if you haven't and feel right at home 😃
https://sw-development-is.social/about/more

If you're new to the Fediverse and feel a little confused, don't worry we all did when joining. Here are a couple of resources if you want to read up a little.

"Fedi-what? What the heck is Mastodon?"
https://pitch.com/v/fedi-what-88yntq

"Fedi.Tips"
https://fedi.tips/

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sw-development-is.social was created as a place for testers, developers, and like minded to have a relaxed social instance to hang out in, I'm very glad to have you all here.

I'm local and friendly instance admin Kristoffer Nordström

It was a while since I last did this, so a longer list today :-D

Welcome to sw-development-is.social and the Fediverse Christian Baumann (@chrissbaumann), Sophie Pofie (@MlleSophiePofie), kalidasya (@kalidasya), James Lyndsay (@workroomprds), kinofrost (@kinofrost), ThomasG_Tester ThomasG_(@Tester), BenjaminoGT-F (@BenjaminoGTF), betlamed (@betlamed), Aaron_McKay Aaron_(@McKay), maaeli (@maaeli), The GROWs Method® (@growsmethod), AST (@AST), roger_pique @roger(_pique), malte (@malte) [cont...]

There is something here just around the corner I feel where the tool can be used to help in assisting me writing various kinds of text with me giving it enough input.

So far it produced a very well structured bug report looking more or less what I would have written as well as a tester. Without any context and completely made up of course (the Chat bot.. not me!)

Next I asked it in the same conversation:

"Now rewrite it as a cyberpunk story in the style of William Gibson"

Today's funny. I guess my secret dream as a software tester is to rescue the world... from dinosaurs! So I asked ChatGPT the following:

"write a short sci-fi story about the adventures of a software tester travelling through a virtual reality to save everyone from dinosaurs"

The short story left something to be desired... but tragically its better than what I could have written 🤣