Workroom Playtime

Regular, short, interactive sessions for paying subscribers.

We‘ll typically run on Fridays Thursdays, in Zoom / Miro, in the afternoons. I’ll keep the group sizes small so that we can talk. We will keep sessions short – 20 minutes — though the post-workshop chat may last longer. I’ll run sessions several times if I need to, depending on busy-ness and timezones.

We’ll work on new and old stuff. You'll see exercises around testing decisions, command-line tools for testers, and around exploration and discovery with a bit of a lean into LLMs. I'm pausing stuff from the Questions workshop and from Speaker Prep for a while. We'll adjust as we go, depending on what works well, and what you're interested in.

I‘ll continue to offer free sessions to non-paying subscribers and everyone else. Paying subscribers get at least an hour a month of testing-related playtime. Subscribe.

Sessions

• 000 3 January: Claude made a BlackBox Puzzle. Off we go!
• 001 10 January: A short diff exercise from the archives.
• 002 17 January: Exploratory Interfaces I
• 003 24 January: SpeakerPrep 1 – What to Follow Up After a Talk.
• 004 31 January: Exploring BlackBox Puzzle 031!
• 005 7 February: Working with grep
• 006 14 February: Exploratory Interfaces II – exploring fixed input
• 007 21 February: SpeakerPrep II – Sloganise
• 008 28 February: Imagining Questions
• 009 7 March: Notation and models (for Puzzle 15)
• 14 / 21 March – two weeks off...
  

Please note – from this point, we'll switch to (mostly) 20 minutes on Thursdays at 3pm London time. I'll try to schedule 4 weeks in advance here, and will announce a week in advance by email.

• 010 27 March: Testing Decisions – Power of Variety
• 011 3 April: Using sort
• Longer session on custom exploratory interfaces in early April
• 012 17 April: Testing Decisions – When to Stop
• 013 24 April: A blackbox puzzle
• 014 WEDS! 30 April: Testing Decisions – Non-Linear Consequences
• 015 8 May: Linking commands with |, >, < and more.
• 016 15 May: Testing Decisions – Cost and Opportunity
• 017 22 May: Exploring Generated Code I
• 018 29 May: RasterReveal
• 019 5 June: Live at EuroSTAR?