iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e) @the-qa-guy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's the first #ReverseCasualFriday in October so I want to use the opportunity to remind you that breast cancer can affect everyone, regardless of their gender. Please check yourself and if anything feels off talk to a doctor 💜

Self portrait of me, a middle aged white man.
I'm wearing a white t-shirt, a black waistcoat and a black suit jacket. There's a pink ribbon on the lapel of the suit jacket.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"we all have something in common" - I saw this piece of paper on a table yesterday and it resonated - the shared human experience 😍

A photo of a white piece of paper saying we all have something in common.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone gifted this purple octopus to me at the tech conference. So cute!

A photo of a purple octopus on a key chain with a big round body and small little legs. A little pink bow on its head with black beaded eyes.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Crazy 24 hours going to Brighton and back to volunteer at a tech conference AND do a workshop. Chatted with so many people 1-1. Great experience!

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretty funny post I saw but seriousness to it. If you're going to use AI to interview me, then I'm going to use an AI agent as my representative. 🤣😁😁

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretty awesome what MoT are doing. Creating their own social feed. Good to follow and see what others are doing prior to the conference www.ministryoftesting.com/moments/list

ministryoftesting.com

Moments

A collection of moments from MoTaverse community members

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From figuring out my thoughts on quality engineering it leads on how to operate in an AI world. One of them is to confirm assumptions made by engineers like "this Claude AI suggested fix is correct". I tested that assumption on a fix this week. It was saying the activity tracker wasn't tracking...

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reading and thinking this afternoon. One on how AI is changing how we think and act, then secondly the writing up of how I work. I'll post links in the thread.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really love these brightly coloured paperclips 😍 I didn't realise stationary gave me so much joy. Maybe need to purchase some more fun things to go on my desk 😁

A photo of some brightly coloured paperclips ontop of one of my workshop worksheets.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feel like a new human after a good movie last night, good sleep, buying some brightly coloured paperclips for workshop notes, gym session, and sitting in the sun with a home made cup of coffee. Cup is filled 😍 sonic 3 movie later with some burgers 😄

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching Minerva academy on Netflix..pretty good. Something to switch my brain off and relax.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did anyone use to watch pinky and the brain? Mice wanting to take over the world 😂 what a great cartoon!

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Had a lot of fun writing a blog post today. Tried to write or share pictures of everything that was in my mind..

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Using co pilot to generate UNIX timestamp values that I can override in the dev tools app section to check this session issue is fixed and now onto ruling out why my particular user is not seeing the correct behaviour ..fun technical testing joy 😃

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Candle light burning - got some stuff done. Slides and worksheet for next week's workshop is done ✅ CV updated to send to a client ✅ never ending list 😁 good to be busy I suppose!

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Starting to write handover notes and my inner voice is saying simply "good luck and well wishes" but honestly on a serious note I want to set them up for success so thinking to write it in the form of "what did I wish I knew at the start".

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trying a new thing this week with three walks a day. I invested in a walking pad (best purchase of the year!) so walking on that morning and evening, then going for a walk at lunch ✅

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How would you describe to someone else how your mind works? I would describe mine as several little "beings" all talking about a different thing. So much on my mind at times.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Barney admiring my pond renovation. Dug up all the grass around it and spread out some oxeye daisy and pond mix seeds. Moved the teasel and a purpletoadflax from another part of the garden. Olive tree also in the ground #gardening #pond

A photo of my white rabbit lying at the back of a pond. The pond has white and grey pebbles around it with bare soil surrounding.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Saying goodbye to my headspace app. I've done over 5,000 minutes of meditation using the daily guidance. Sad for a chapter to close but onwards to deeper meditation practice 🧘🪷

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Final interview done of a 4 stage process done today ✅ I've learnt not to get too invested emotionally and mentally. I've been here before and in a tough market you just don't know! Optimistic but realistic..

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Any #testing professionals here? How is testing life going? Working on anything interesting?

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Felt I could have done better in an interview today. Oh well. Will sit with that feeling for awhile, then onto other things.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Got a technical interview tomorrow. My AI coach says "Be melissa who is curious, asks good questions, thinks about risk, and investigates things." 😍 Why pay for a coach when AI, let's call her Matilda, helps me 😄😄

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Parked away from town and walked in to drop library books off. Saved on a parking fee and got my steps in 🙌 getting through my to do list.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Let's get going 🙌 I wrote a version 1 of this workshop and got some feedback, then have pretty much thrown it away and started again. Spending a couple of hours on it now..

A photo showing a desktop with a PowerPoint saying Build your own quality management system with a picture of a control tower that you see at airports.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Little positive action. Planted this olive tree in the ground 🙏#gardening Good to plant more trees!

A photo of an olive tree planted in the ground.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's not only what you do, but how you go about it. That pretty sums up a lot of my experience in building good software. The what and the how are equally as important.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don't talk much about software testing on here anymore. Maybe I should 🤔 I've been working in the UK public sector for most of this year. Building version 2 of a product then working in a managed services support team. It has been good experience going back to a full IC role.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Feeling helpless, fear, anxiety with all the world's chaos? This video might be one for you. If you are Buddhist or not, there's a lot of great wisdom in this 🙏 youtu.be/49fdrMRp97U?...

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Accepting the Unacceptable | Ajahn Canda | 11 May 2026

YouTube video by Buddhist Society of Western Australia

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm so glad I sorted my finances out over the last years. Gives me the freedom to take bold moves like saying no to a contract extension and having a break / find something else 🙌

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

STAR method for interviews has never worked with my brain. Not going to try and force myself to use something that's not working. So created one for me: before, I did, after, so what?

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

28,000 steps done yesterday at a music festival 😅 had to have a crash nap and loading up on calories!

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My heart goes out to everyone in Nepal right now. What an absolute disaster. That could be any of us walking along and enjoying the day, then bam :( life is fleeting and worth grabbing each day as a treasure.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Florence and the machine playlist starts the day....Reading festival this weekend 🎸🎸🎸

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I was doing really well with my focus time - then multiple distractions at work - and multiple people coming into my office - oh well. Reset and try again tomorrow! 😎

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reminding myself that it's not the hours at the keyboard that matters - it's the outcomes.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sunday chill vibes...reading song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland (library pick up), while eating cake, drinking decaf coffee and listening to instrumental chilled mix.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of my friends who has been out of work has got a job 🎉 so pleased for them 🙌 I'm hoping for a level of stability at some point. I feel like I've been looking at jobs all year.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I often don't watch the news and reminded why. Who cares about harry and Megan's return to the uk? Surely other things to talk about.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm not really sure what I'm doing for this job search at times. I see roles that are interesting but don't apply. 🤔 Maybe something will click at some point when the time is feeling right.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Another gym session today ✅ my body hurts all over 🤣 😅 time for a rest day tomorrow.

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Watercolours By Rachel @elidanza.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don't think I'm the only one happy to see some rain.... Happy Wednesday x #watercolour #rain #duck #drought #watercolourpainting

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Fitness first, work second. Run done before work ✅ Trying to change my mindset to schedule fitness into my day rather than fitting it in around work.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

All this agentic SDLC has clicked in my head. Perhaps didn't have the brain space before. I don't think we yet have the mindset shift to adopt it on a mass scale across tech. It's certainly a different way of doing things.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Routine eye test done ✅ finally ticked that off my to do list. The to do list is endless though and have much to do like railway card order, more school uniform and so on.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Earlier in the year I got this feedback to work on my "inspirational presence". It knocked my confidence in a time where I was feeling low and sick (thyroid imbalances), as well as exam year for my son so lots of attention his way.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Barney looking at his best. Great photo taken by my son.

A photo of Barney the white rabbit sitting down on the ground and having one eye look at the camera.

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Melissa Fisher @fishouthebox.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've been reminded that tomorrow is not promised, so live for today. That makes decision making easier and priorities more focused.

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