Workroom PlayTime 025: curl

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We'll gather on Zoom / Miro, on Thursday 25 July at 4pm London time (local time for you) to play with data transfer tool cURL. The exercises aren't up yet... I'll update this page when they are.

These exercises are for everyone, for free. Paying Subscribers get to play together every week. This week's is open to subscribers and friends: Subscribers will see joining info below. Pop your name on the Miro board if you're coming.

In other news:

I published one more tiny tool, to clear up your LinkedIn feed. Not testing related, but feels neatly empowering to use.
Advance notice: Workroom PlayTime for Thursdays 31 July and 7 August will certainly be shunted about – I'm on stage for one and in the air for the other. They'll move, but I can't yet see when I can move them to.

Thank you for reading!

Cheers –

James

I announced this Workroom PlayTime just a few hours before the scheduled time. Here are some thoughts on that.

What happened? Sometime around 1 this morning (it was dark, I had my eyes closed), I recognised that I had not sent an email to invite subscribers. Realised is the wrong word: there were no surprises here. The slot for Workroom PlayTime was in the family and work diaries, I've arranged stuff to avoid those slots, and I'm expecting to run it. Also, I had not set up the exercises, the support page, the environment, the miro board... or invited you. These two incompatible truths were present in one mind, together. I have been trying to put an experience together that explores how we as testers need to be able to hold incompatible truths: It's interesting to be in the middle of a practical example. No excuses here, but it's an interesting observation about minds, and I wanted to share.

I do, of course, need to apologise for being late to announce. I'm often late to announce, despite planning to plan, and despite experimenting with changes so that this doesn't happen in the same way another time. So if that's how it works and I can't find a way to change it, I'll need to accept the situation rather than fight its nature. One reason to offer Workroom PlayTime is to explore how it works: I'll give that some more thought over the summer.

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