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James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · 1d

This @adalovelaceday.bsky.social , celebrate the generosity and wisdom of Elisabeth Hendrickson ( curiousduck.io ), the perspective and persistence of @lisacrispin.bsky.social
and the sheer chutzpah and joy of @fionaccharles.bsky.social

#ALD25 – findingada.com

Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths

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James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · 1d

in SE5, O2 seems up while Three has signal but v weak.

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James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · 19d

so here's a thing you may find amusing...
web.archive.org/web/20051223...

Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names

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James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Aug 27

Thursday 28 Aug at 4pm – draw a (testing) chart, tell a (testing) story in this week's Workroom PlayTIme.
www.workroom-productions.com/workroom-pla...

Workroom Playtime 028: My Story Chart

Thursday 28 August at 4pm London time. Telling a story with a picture.

www.workroom-productions.com

James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Aug 23

If there are directions to the lost city, is it really lost?

Two roadsigns. One reads Лост Сити (transliterates to Lost City)

James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Aug 14

This is a generated summary of a 90-minute conversation about ephemeral testing environments.

Sharing because it made me laugh, I needed a laugh, and maybe you do too.

Text from an LLM summary, reading
Quick recap
James encountered an issue with an unspecified object and wondered if he might have accidentally sat on it. The exact nature of the problem and the object in question remain unclear from the available information.

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James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Aug 13

@suw.bsky.social you didn’t film ‘Fieldwork’, did you?

It’s just that I saw your recent tweet and found the pictures *in my head*.

The rational part of me is sure I only read the script. The remembering part sees people looking up that tree, and they all have different expressions…

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James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Aug 13

Tomorrow’s Workroom PlayTime
www.workroom-productions.com/workroom-pla...

Workroom PlayTime 026: Shared Inspiration

Let's exchange ideas about something that has inspired us, as testers. 4pm 14 Aug 25

www.workroom-productions.com

James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Aug 13

It's unlike me to post a Swifty.
And I imagine (from the source: PA via www.bbc.com/news/article... ) that it's *not* generated.
But the left hand, and the eyes?

I wonder if it makes you too feel the need to recalibrate the characteristics of a 'real' image.

Again.

Taylor Swift singing into a microphone, left had raised, eyes looking hard left.

James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Aug 3

Found a bug

Workroomprds with a preying mantis crawling up his face

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James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Jul 30

Info: Next Workroom PlayTime on 14 August
www.workroom-productions.com/no-workroom-...

No Workroom PlayTime until 14 August

I've stepped away to be with family, and to sing. Tomorrow I'm travelling all day. You'll know that I had hopes of doing Workroom PlayTime 26 at a different time this week – hasn't happened, and now c...

www.workroom-productions.com

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James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Jul 29

Today's most pointless graph.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A graph, showing a red column 10 units high labelled UK, and a blue column 15 units high labelled EU. Text is "European Union firms face higher US import taxes than their UK counterparts
Headline goods tariff selling into US, %"

James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Jul 19

This is where I post from...

An angular spaceship hovering over waves in a storm

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James Lyndsay (workroomprds) @workroomprds.com · Jul 18

Here's a bookmarklet to bring some control to your LinkedIn feed. Born out of frustration (and enabled by easy access to LLMs).

www.workroom-productions.com/clear-up-you...