iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 06/10/2026

Perfect for speakers dinner. Full stop.

Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 17/08/2026

Dust, an elysian tail. Not because it’s the best game or the first one I though of - but it was completely unknown to me and the first game I bought on a whim. I loved it which made me go out and try other random games. Some suck and that’s ok. Some are brilliant and I would have missed them!

Box art of Dust and elysian tale. Pictures a flying squirrel-fox like animal and a white samurai-figure holding a body on a very dark gloomy background

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 22/06/2026

Win of the day: I managed to push myself to write the last parts of the blog series I started last fall. Shame of the day: I forgot about it for EIGHT MONTHS and I ended up writing SIX parts, not 3…. Picture from Oslo (EuroStar last week) to show how happy I am to be done! Testing.pejgan.se

Crazy looking lady showing a waterfall next to a stoned path. She is wearing rainbow glasses and a pretty cool tattoo is peeking out. She is not stoned like the path, but will get cava about 15 min after this picture.

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 26/04/2026

Preparing for German Testing Days. 50% ”why do I keep doing this to myself”, 50% ”OMG I can’t believe I get to do this again YAAAAY”

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 20/04/2026

Twinsies! Ziggs and Nami say hi!

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 17/04/2026

I am so incredibly tired of being this incredibly tired. And puberty was enough once, why the f do we have to do it again?!?!

Red haired woman in grey sweater sleeping with a tabby cat in her arms. He is not amused.

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 27/02/2026

I managed to figure out how to verify a certain flow today, while my testers were busy doing other important things. I was so proud of myself I had to instantly log off for the weekend while on that high note. (It was complicated. Don’t judge) Also: reverse casual friday in new jeans & cute blouse

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 26/02/2026

Do not approve of orange menace (mine, not the USA-ian one) waking us up at 4.45 because he is bored. Might be slightly less patient with people today. 2/10 would not recommend.

Orange cat draped over human legs. He looks deceptively innocent

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 23/02/2026

And Ziggs wants you to remember to take care of the people you love when they are down.

Tabby cat being forcefully held by yours truly. Lady witg grey hoodie. He is not very amused. But also kind of likes it.

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 23/02/2026

Stormy wants you to stop caring about limiting yourself. Do that thing you love!

Calico/tortie cat ripping cat nip toy to pieces. Blissfully

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 23/02/2026

And Nami wants you to make your enemies bow before you!

Black cat on top of robo vacuum. NOW CARRY ME ! Ahoy!

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 23/02/2026

Azir is wishing you all the comforts and naps you deserve.

Orange cat blissfully sleeping in some sort of pretzel position with his cute little face peeking out

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 05/01/2026

Someone asked if we got snow. Well. This is what I haven’t managed to remove from the driveway. No idea where to put it 🤣

A lower leg in a winter boot with metric tonnes of snow behind it. Snow reaches about 2/3 up to knee

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 31/12/2025

What a weird year. Anyway - Azir says hi. Nami, Ziggs and Stormy could not be bothered.

Orange menace, aka cat, and a glass of bubbles

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 19/11/2025

I would have KILLED for these pants when I was in 8-9th grade. Only the super cool kids who had been to fancy places like the states or Stockholm had pants this cool. So of course I had to buy them 🆒👖👶

Side view of the coolest DENIM adidas pants. Wide as a truck. Thighs like oumf

Front view of the coolest DENIM adidas pants. Wide as a truck. Hips like whaaat?!

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 06/10/2025

My office for the day!

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 06/10/2025

Not my usual Monday morning attire but what does one do… :D

View of womans lower body. She is wearing green sneakers and a fancy flounce dress that does not look monday work attire at all

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 28/09/2025

Another of my 38 favourites. When you are caught up in the daily grind, it’s hard to see a way out of it. Reactive works fills whatever void you give it, reflective/proactive work often requires you to carve out time and habits. Writing MORE tests might help. Or just give you more reactive work.

Drawing of hamster in a hamster wheel. Headline says run, fix, repear.

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 27/09/2025

Top 38 illustrations for my talk in Prague this week (yes, they are all my favourite one) Tests (automated in this case) have layers. Layers of depth, purpose. Which layers to use, the size and where on the onion you put them - that’s something YOU need to figure out. don’t blend them into soup

Drawing of a red onion with the text ”tests have layers like onions” and different layers named different test ”types”

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 24/09/2025

Happy birthday! I made the beautiful-est digitally hand drawn slides for my talk tomorrow and I f-ing love them

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 24/09/2025

Spent unreasonably long on these slides but I love them so much 😅

Drawing of a sinking boat. Headline: sunk cost fallacy

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 03/09/2025

It’s… kind of rough gaming one-handed. But nothing could make me move my arm

Orange cat sleeping with his head on an arm. My arm.

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 21/08/2025

I slept in a pile of cats. If I can just convince grumpy cat to join my life is complete. I had cat on my tummy. Cat on my feet. Cat lying next to me. So much cat. (So little sleep. Who cares)

Picture of tabby cat with tiny tuxedo spicy nugget kitten on top and a sleepy orange boy sleeping in thr background

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 17/08/2025

the babies are here 🥰 Say hi to Nami and Azir

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 09/08/2025

I am finding the irony of me struggling to delete this slide very amusing.

Picture of a dragon sitting on a pile of test documents with the text ”but i might need it” to the right

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 04/08/2025

I didn’t play it until way way later but this is one of the best games ever

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 26/07/2025

I was gonna go through my next talk a few times today but my kids made me do a bunch of garden work yesterday so I am officially doing nothing but be in pain today. (And likely drive them around to find stuff to make the cat climb tree they/we are apparently building) So much easier to buy one

Two giant pieces of tree lying on a lawn. Lawn looks like it never saw water. Trees look tiny but I promise they are giant. There is a random green watering can and lawn is coveres in thistles and other weed but not much alive grass

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 23/07/2025

This might be best thing I ever made

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 17/07/2025

One would think after a zillion tattoos I would be used to the pain but oh dear lord this was painful. But she is a hecking ⭐️ amazing ⭐️ artist. A metric shit tonne left. Deep breaths.

Picture of a chest piece tattoo with flowers lined out. One red flower is filled out

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 05/04/2025

I SWEAR it was sunny and nice 20min ago!!!

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 15/03/2025

I re-catnipped all of their catnip toys. She was bathing in them.

Tortoise cat bathing in catnip toys. She looks happy

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 04/03/2025

This was a very weird moment for me.. i normally have very (very) little interaction 😂 Like… 5 likes. :D

Cross stitch picture with weirdly high interaction m. ”weird hill to die on but at least you’re dead” and a poro

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 04/03/2025

Terribly sorry but I am stuck under Ziggs at the moment.

Pocture of tabby cat lying on top of a human arm on a couch

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 26/01/2025

Massive was a suitable choice of word 😂

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 15/01/2025

2024 Me: ”I need to slow down” 2025 me: ”of course I should start a new company and be CEO. Of course I can do that and also consult. Of course I can learn automation properly at the same time. Of course I’ll only do keynotes this year. Of course I’ll learn choreography.”

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 03/01/2025

Pretty sure today specifically is more like this for me.

Two towers. One yellow with the text ”everything you can do ”. One white with one single yellow brick with the text ”everything you can do today”

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 31/12/2024

Happy new years lovelies. My 2025 suck less ***** than 2024. (Except let’s keep the great things, ok. 2024 was HIIIIIIGHS and loooooows) Here’s to going back to testing 🥳

hand holding a champagne flute. With bubbly wine. Cheers!

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 27/12/2024

Yay! My Christmas present to myself from Wizard Zines ( @b0rk.jvns.ca ) came today. They are even more gorgeous in real life! Can’t wait to learn more about.. eh… everything apparently.

A lap full of magazines with titles such as ”how git works”, ”bite size networking” and ”the pocket guide to debugging”

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 11/12/2024

Am slowly melting but would rather suffer than move little cat from my lap. How did it come to this.

Grey tabby cat in cinnamon roll form on a white blanket. Blanket is covering my slowly melting body. Pray for me.

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 09/12/2024

I don’t always do work on order but if the right person asks 🤷🏼‍♀️ Don’t even know how to translate this properly. Maybe something like ”with a bit of hecking grit anything can go to hell”

Cross stitch pattern and beginning of cross stitch. The pattern, in Swedish, says something along the lines of ”with a bit of hecking grit anything can go to hell”

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 06/12/2024

8 workdays left. Eight. Deep breaths. Learn relaxing from Ziggs

Grey and white cat lying in one of then cat hammocks looking down on you. It is clearly thinking ”You poor human and your lousy relaxing skills”. Yes cat, I know. I know.

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 02/12/2024

Like this? (xkcd.com/2347/)

Beautiful sand castle of an architecture with a tiny tiny brick holding it ut - a project some random person in nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 29/11/2024

Accidentally put most of my stickers through the wash. 😭😂 oh well

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 21/11/2024

I finally have a gold record AND got to wear a pretty dress that I would never have dared wearing just a few years back. @agiletdzone.bsky.social - thank you for being a safe space for living your full crazy self.

a photo of a ”gold record” award for the musical ”the owl problem”

Woman in short bright red hair wearing a big flowy light blue dress and looking very pleased with herself

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 16/11/2024

But only a few hours of practice and getting to know the program and I can make this…

Drawing of the devops loop of software development. As drawb by at least a sober raccoon or a newly-dead zombie!

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Lena Pejgan @pejgan.se · 16/11/2024

Got myself a drawing tablet to FINALLY start making my own illustrations for blog posts etc. First up: models! First try yesterday produced.. eh.. this.

A drawing of the devops loop of software development. As drawn by a zombie with rotting hands or possibly a drunk raccoon

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