Fuck off, you nosy, wasteful, thirsty, awful goblin. And especially fuck off if you reckon this shite is a good use of LLMs.
James Lyndsay
@workroomprds.com
Getting better at software testing. Singing in Bulgarian. Staying in. Going out. Listening. Talking. #workroomprds
Hey, #testing and #exploring people: How about sometime we get a gang together to explore Big Walk? It's a co-op environment with proximity chat – I reckon we can use it to talk testing as we wander about making sense of things. bigwalk.game
Big Walk by House House
Hang out with your friends and explore a wide-open world full of challenges, puzzles, and discoveries. A cooperative online walker-talker from the creators of Untitled Goose Game. Big Walk is availabl...
bigwalk.game
I can't access Excel. Here's the error: a confused axolotl. Context: I've got a forever license, not a subscription for Office. I can activate Word, not Excel. Word won't activate if behind a double-NAT network, and has needed two goes already this week. MS don't want me to work with their kit.
We are building stuff (toys, environments, ideas) for you to play with. LocalLLMs are helpful to testers (and private, and differently thirsty) Needs polishing, mind.
Agile Testing Days | Nov. 16 - 19, 2026@agiletdzone.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs the title suggests, in this workshop led by Bart Knaack and James Lyndsay, you'll learn how to leverage the advantages of local LLMs for testing. Try the tool they created and see what happens! Discover more: agiletestingdays.com/2026/session...
One for @simonwillison.net
The Fake History Hunter@fakehistoryhunter.net · 3mo agoI spotted these lovely photos of the Weaver's House in Coventry on Facebook. A terrace of six cottages built in 1455! More here: theweavershouse.org Photos were made by Ken Bonham who also has this brilliant site about barns! greatbarns.org.uk Photo thread:
Time was we'd take our biggest jobs to our biggest machines, pare back to just the necessary processes, and run hot overnight. We'd watch memory and CPU and timestamps on files. Time was, I was on call for that. Running a local llm: I'm back there again.
Every year, in early May #dawnChorusDay, in a 24-hour circumnavigation of the planet, people turns to broadcast the live, local, sound of dawn. It's on now: soundtent.org/reveil.html and extra.resonance.fm/episodes/rev...
reveil
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It is just about ten years since the UK Government published its Service Manual for Exploratory Testing. www.gov.uk/service-manu...
Exploratory testing
Explore a system as a user would - without a script or set of tasks - to find possible defects that other forms of testing may miss.
gov.uk
So "Claude can directly control your browser, mouse, keyboard, and screen to complete tasks. It will scroll, click to open..." Please don't do this to yourselves today, people. claude.com/blog/dispatc...
Put Claude to work on your computer | Claude
Claude now opens your apps, navigates your browser, and runs your dev tools to complete tasks. Assign from your phone with Dispatch. Research preview on macOS.
claude.com
Short chat with MiniMax-M2.5 Me: who are you? > I'm Claude Code [...] Me: Are you sure you're not MiniMax-M2.5? > [...] The system prompt identifies me as "MiniMax-M2.5" [..], but I've been introducing myself as "Claude Code". www.anthropic.com/news/detecti...
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I’ve lived in London for years. I just saw directions to Nelson Square, North Southwark, and briefly felt myself slip into some alternate timeline…
From @tldraw.com: Their tests are worthwhile (and we might yet take a look in an 'interesting testing' session). While this is tongue-in-cheek, it's also getting closer to a thing. Tests, like moulds, are valuable. github.com/tldraw/tldra...
Move tests to closed source repo · Issue #8082 · tldraw/tldraw
Move the test suite out of the open source tldraw/tldraw repo and into the closed source repo. Context The tldraw monorepo currently contains ~327 test files across unit, integration, and e2e tests...
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Bullshit: sticky, nasty, grows roses. Batshit: all the above, but the zoonotic pathogens can really mess you up. LLM chats: more batshit than bullshit. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Metagenomic analysis of fecal and tissue samples from 18 endemic bat species in Switzerland revealed a diverse virus composition including potentially zoonotic viruses
Many recent disease outbreaks in humans had a zoonotic virus etiology. Bats in particular have been recognized as reservoirs to a large variety of viruses with the potential to cross-species transmiss...
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In Workroom PlayTime this week, we'll run Cutting to the Core – an activity to help testers with talks to find their core message. Online, hands-on, this Thursday. www.workroom-productions.com/workroom-pla...
Yesterday, Claude successfully (and painfully) got authenticated with my repo. Today, I could not work out how to authenticate personally through the commandline (I have a passcode, it needs a password). So I'm reduced to spending $0.10 to ask the LLM to do `git push`. WAAAAAAAAAARGH.
Workroom PlayTime 045 on 22 January... tests of reasoning that (generally) distinguish humans and machines
So if yer orange balloon puts a 10% tariff on sales from the UK to the US, that means my US customers pay more, and his mob keep a chunk? So now my diddly workshops are for free for US people, and I'm ignoring US corporates. I've not yet worked out how to do that.
I am an idiot with an LLM, and yesterday my nicely sandboxed, ` --dangerously-skip-permissions` env uploaded an unexpected file to an unexpected place.
Here's an interesting one for testers: A library with examples but no code www.dbreunig.com/2026/01/08/a... What does "testing" mean when we have only examples – and all the executable tests are generated? Like the old days – or not so much... ? Post + Workroom PlayTime incoming...
A Software Library with No Code
Do we still need libraries of 3rd party code when AI agents are this good?
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For playing on the last working day of the last working week of 2025, explorers. music.apple.com/gb/album/exp...
Exploration by The Karminsky Experience Inc. on Apple Music
Song · 2003 · Duration 5:35
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Thursday 18 Dec at 3pm London time: marking the last in a year of hands-on short experiences, here's a Workroom PlayTime on building short exercises. No lectures, no principles, no solutions to problems: We'll play, share, and learn together. www.workroom-productions.com/workroom-pla...
Workroom Playtime 043: Building Short Exercises
Thursday 18 December, 3pm London time.
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