Stephan
@thetraveller.bsky.social
I am a traveller (not necessarily in a geographical sense) who seeks, observes … & occasionally finds.
I am a programming software tester, studied physics, survived cancer & live at the seaside. I love the ocean and go swimming a lot – in winter, too.
I am a programming software tester, studied physics, survived cancer & live at the seaside. I love the ocean and go swimming a lot – in winter, too.
Oh, the first snow this season… 🤷
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Oh, the first snow this season… 🤷
5 — Five! Day until the #AgileTD, that is.
➙ days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com
Super exceited already. And I have collected stuff from the previous 80ies-costume-party. The long hair from those times is long gone though… 🤣
➙ days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com
Super exceited already. And I have collected stuff from the previous 80ies-costume-party. The long hair from those times is long gone though… 🤣
Days Until Agile Testing Days
days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
5 — Five! Day until the #AgileTD, that is.
➙ days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com
Super exceited already. And I have collected stuff from the previous 80ies-costume-party. The long hair from those times is long gone though… 🤣
➙ days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com
Super exceited already. And I have collected stuff from the previous 80ies-costume-party. The long hair from those times is long gone though… 🤣
Since it just received another small update: days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com ➙ OMG it's only 10 (ten!) days to go.
If you go there: What are your plans?
#agileTD
If you go there: What are your plans?
#agileTD
Days Until Agile Testing Days
days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Since it just received another small update: days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com ➙ OMG it's only 10 (ten!) days to go.
If you go there: What are your plans?
#agileTD
If you go there: What are your plans?
#agileTD
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A speaker at a conference saying "if I say ChatGPT I mean use your favourite LLM, regardless if it's ChatGPT or Copilot or Deepseek or grok"
I'm sorry but one of those is not like the others and if the speaker can't see that it worries me. A lot.
I'm sorry but one of those is not like the others and if the speaker can't see that it worries me. A lot.
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A speaker at a conference saying "if I say ChatGPT I mean use your favourite LLM, regardless if it's ChatGPT or Copilot or Deepseek or grok"
I'm sorry but one of those is not like the others and if the speaker can't see that it worries me. A lot.
I'm sorry but one of those is not like the others and if the speaker can't see that it worries me. A lot.
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"For the last time, you need to go to the office because we value human connection! Got it? Good. Now let's talk about how you should outsource all your written communication and decision-making to AI..."
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"For the last time, you need to go to the office because we value human connection! Got it? Good. Now let's talk about how you should outsource all your written communication and decision-making to AI..."
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Not much to see during today's afternoon swim 🌊🏊♂️🌊 – a bit foggy, 8°C in the air, 9°C in the water.
#OpenWaterSwimming #NorthSea
#OpenWaterSwimming #NorthSea
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Not much to see during today's afternoon swim 🌊🏊♂️🌊 – a bit foggy, 8°C in the air, 9°C in the water.
#OpenWaterSwimming #NorthSea
#OpenWaterSwimming #NorthSea
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There's a free iOS app called BitCam which only takes pictures like this, and I absolutely love it.
Takes me back to my earliest days with the first Mac I ever owned, a Mac Plus.
Takes me back to my earliest days with the first Mac I ever owned, a Mac Plus.
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
There's a free iOS app called BitCam which only takes pictures like this, and I absolutely love it.
Takes me back to my earliest days with the first Mac I ever owned, a Mac Plus.
Takes me back to my earliest days with the first Mac I ever owned, a Mac Plus.
State of planning: Updated days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com - only 16 days left. Got my spectacles (ther's GOOD). Been to the hairdresser 💇. 😃
What's left: 2 weeks until @agiletdzone.bsky.social, packing for a week in Postdam … & deciding how to get there. … 1/2
What's left: 2 weeks until @agiletdzone.bsky.social, packing for a week in Postdam … & deciding how to get there. … 1/2
Days Until Agile Testing Days
days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
State of planning: Updated days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com - only 16 days left. Got my spectacles (ther's GOOD). Been to the hairdresser 💇. 😃
What's left: 2 weeks until @agiletdzone.bsky.social, packing for a week in Postdam … & deciding how to get there. … 1/2
What's left: 2 weeks until @agiletdzone.bsky.social, packing for a week in Postdam … & deciding how to get there. … 1/2
Yay! I can (and will) pick up the new spectacles later. Not sure I'll look any better, but sure will see better. 👓
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Yay! I can (and will) pick up the new spectacles later. Not sure I'll look any better, but sure will see better. 👓
With #inktober done for this year, I'll enjoy a month of quiet (well, that and @agiletdzone.bsky.social 😃) before #AdventOfCode in December.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Have a great weekend everyone!
November 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
With #inktober done for this year, I'll enjoy a month of quiet (well, that and @agiletdzone.bsky.social 😃) before #AdventOfCode in December.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Reposted by Stephan
1/3 It's Official: Inktober COMPLETE! 📜
Wow. A massive, thank you to every single one of you who followed, cheered, liked, and commented on my daily drawings this month. Seeing the support grow has been truly motivating. #Inktober
While the Inktober challenge may be over, the drawing isn't stopping!
Wow. A massive, thank you to every single one of you who followed, cheered, liked, and commented on my daily drawings this month. Seeing the support grow has been truly motivating. #Inktober
While the Inktober challenge may be over, the drawing isn't stopping!
November 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
1/3 It's Official: Inktober COMPLETE! 📜
Wow. A massive, thank you to every single one of you who followed, cheered, liked, and commented on my daily drawings this month. Seeing the support grow has been truly motivating. #Inktober
While the Inktober challenge may be over, the drawing isn't stopping!
Wow. A massive, thank you to every single one of you who followed, cheered, liked, and commented on my daily drawings this month. Seeing the support grow has been truly motivating. #Inktober
While the Inktober challenge may be over, the drawing isn't stopping!
#Inktober2025, Day 31: Prompt word: #Award
There you are: The 31-Inked-Drawings-in-October award you deserve. 🏅
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
There you are: The 31-Inked-Drawings-in-October award you deserve. 🏅
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
#Inktober2025, Day 31: Prompt word: #Award
There you are: The 31-Inked-Drawings-in-October award you deserve. 🏅
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
There you are: The 31-Inked-Drawings-in-October award you deserve. 🏅
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
#Inktober2025, Day 30: Prompt word: #Vacant
A table at one of my favourite cafés, so vacant it doesn't even have a background. 😜
Kaweco fountain pens, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
A table at one of my favourite cafés, so vacant it doesn't even have a background. 😜
Kaweco fountain pens, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#Inktober2025, Day 30: Prompt word: #Vacant
A table at one of my favourite cafés, so vacant it doesn't even have a background. 😜
Kaweco fountain pens, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
A table at one of my favourite cafés, so vacant it doesn't even have a background. 😜
Kaweco fountain pens, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
A clear case of 'harumph'…
The good news in the bad news: My optician could put the glasses in another frame, so I still have glasses over the long weekend (tomorrow's a public holiday in my state). Phew.
The good news in the bad news: My optician could put the glasses in another frame, so I still have glasses over the long weekend (tomorrow's a public holiday in my state). Phew.
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A clear case of 'harumph'…
The good news in the bad news: My optician could put the glasses in another frame, so I still have glasses over the long weekend (tomorrow's a public holiday in my state). Phew.
The good news in the bad news: My optician could put the glasses in another frame, so I still have glasses over the long weekend (tomorrow's a public holiday in my state). Phew.
Reposted by Stephan
#Testing #training: Challenge yourself by continuing your professional development with AST.
https://associationforsoftwaretesting.org/bbst-black-box-software-testing-courses/foundations/
https://associationforsoftwaretesting.org/bbst-black-box-software-testing-courses/foundations/
Challenge yourself by continuing your professional development with AST.
associationforsoftwaretesting.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#Testing #training: Challenge yourself by continuing your professional development with AST.
https://associationforsoftwaretesting.org/bbst-black-box-software-testing-courses/foundations/
https://associationforsoftwaretesting.org/bbst-black-box-software-testing-courses/foundations/
#Inktober2025, Day 29: Prompt: #Lesson
An extract from a real physics lecture about electro-optics from the mid-nineties.
It explained light-induced absorption… until the day I examined a crystal that didn't follow the model.
Stabilo fine-liners, Kaweco fountain pen, de Atramentis ink
#Inktober
An extract from a real physics lecture about electro-optics from the mid-nineties.
It explained light-induced absorption… until the day I examined a crystal that didn't follow the model.
Stabilo fine-liners, Kaweco fountain pen, de Atramentis ink
#Inktober
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#Inktober2025, Day 29: Prompt: #Lesson
An extract from a real physics lecture about electro-optics from the mid-nineties.
It explained light-induced absorption… until the day I examined a crystal that didn't follow the model.
Stabilo fine-liners, Kaweco fountain pen, de Atramentis ink
#Inktober
An extract from a real physics lecture about electro-optics from the mid-nineties.
It explained light-induced absorption… until the day I examined a crystal that didn't follow the model.
Stabilo fine-liners, Kaweco fountain pen, de Atramentis ink
#Inktober
Reposted by Stephan
Die Bundes-CDU hört ja auch nicht auf Schleswig-Holstein oder Nordrhein-Westfalen, die ganz anders als die Bundes-CDU ticken.
Es ändert sich nur etwas, wenn man diejenigen aus der Bundes-CDU absägt, die der CDU massiv schaden: Merz, Klöckner, Spahn, Linnemann & Co., aber die kleben an ihren Ämtern.
Es ändert sich nur etwas, wenn man diejenigen aus der Bundes-CDU absägt, die der CDU massiv schaden: Merz, Klöckner, Spahn, Linnemann & Co., aber die kleben an ihren Ämtern.
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Die Bundes-CDU hört ja auch nicht auf Schleswig-Holstein oder Nordrhein-Westfalen, die ganz anders als die Bundes-CDU ticken.
Es ändert sich nur etwas, wenn man diejenigen aus der Bundes-CDU absägt, die der CDU massiv schaden: Merz, Klöckner, Spahn, Linnemann & Co., aber die kleben an ihren Ämtern.
Es ändert sich nur etwas, wenn man diejenigen aus der Bundes-CDU absägt, die der CDU massiv schaden: Merz, Klöckner, Spahn, Linnemann & Co., aber die kleben an ihren Ämtern.
#Inktober2025, Day 28: Prompt word: #Skeletal
Feeling reduced today, kind of matches today's prompt word.
And the solution too: The skeletal formula of d-glucose, a sweet solution. 😜
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
Feeling reduced today, kind of matches today's prompt word.
And the solution too: The skeletal formula of d-glucose, a sweet solution. 😜
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#Inktober2025, Day 28: Prompt word: #Skeletal
Feeling reduced today, kind of matches today's prompt word.
And the solution too: The skeletal formula of d-glucose, a sweet solution. 😜
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
Feeling reduced today, kind of matches today's prompt word.
And the solution too: The skeletal formula of d-glucose, a sweet solution. 😜
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
#Inktober2025, Day 27: Prompt word: #Onion
A tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett:
Some cards of 'Cripple Mr. Onion' left on a table…
I prefer the German name 'Leg Herrn Zwiebel rein'.
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
A tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett:
Some cards of 'Cripple Mr. Onion' left on a table…
I prefer the German name 'Leg Herrn Zwiebel rein'.
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
October 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
#Inktober2025, Day 27: Prompt word: #Onion
A tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett:
Some cards of 'Cripple Mr. Onion' left on a table…
I prefer the German name 'Leg Herrn Zwiebel rein'.
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
A tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett:
Some cards of 'Cripple Mr. Onion' left on a table…
I prefer the German name 'Leg Herrn Zwiebel rein'.
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
#Inktober2025, Day 26: Prompt word: #Puzzling
Math time! A (to me) fairly puzzling result in complex analysis 🧩
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
Math time! A (to me) fairly puzzling result in complex analysis 🧩
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
![A result from complex analysis: Given a curve γ = exp(it), t in [0, 2π],
then the curve integral over f(z) = 1/z is:
∫(γ) 1/z dz = 2πi](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6ji623lja2dj55wykuw7sikl/bafkreiel22ba6efc4gmx2k5wkvwvzqfbd42sh35ygil22ydwrk74yjoapy@jpeg)
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#Inktober2025, Day 26: Prompt word: #Puzzling
Math time! A (to me) fairly puzzling result in complex analysis 🧩
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
Math time! A (to me) fairly puzzling result in complex analysis 🧩
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
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It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.
#Inktober2025, Day 25: Prompt word: #Inferno
Close enough to a black hole => Inferno ☄️🔥🎇
More on the topic ➙ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz...
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
Close enough to a black hole => Inferno ☄️🔥🎇
More on the topic ➙ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz...
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
#Inktober2025, Day 25: Prompt word: #Inferno
Close enough to a black hole => Inferno ☄️🔥🎇
More on the topic ➙ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz...
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober
Close enough to a black hole => Inferno ☄️🔥🎇
More on the topic ➙ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz...
Kaweco fountain pens & paper, de Atramentis & Kaweco ink
#Inktober