TWIL: Week 1

Wins

This week had a good mix of learning, creativity, and reconnecting with momentum on work I actually care about.

I spent real time exploring AI evals. I read through a few different evaluation frameworks and thought carefully about how the discipline maps onto testing instincts I already carry. Defining expected behavior, building test data, and deciding what counts as a pass or a fail all showed up again, just applied to systems that do not behave the same way twice.

I attended a Worli Arts Creative Sundays event and tried Worli art directly on cloth using paint and a fair amount of trial and error. It turned out to be a completely different kind of problem solving than the one I usually spend my day on, and that contrast was exactly what I needed.

I revamped my portfolio website and moved it to a new domain, beinghumantester.com. Rather than simply copying the old content across, I used the move as a reason to rebuild most of it from scratch.

I started working on my third article for Ministry of Testing. It is still early, mostly notes and a rough shape right now, but the core idea is getting clearer with every draft.

I also met a few genuinely interesting people this week, Nandini among them. Conversations like these are a quiet reminder that a lot of testing craft gets passed along informally, through a chat or a shared story, not only through formal training.

What I Missed

Not everything went the way I planned, and it feels honest to name that too.

A few tasks I had lined up for this week slipped into next week. Nothing serious, mostly a case of underestimating how much time the portfolio rebuild would actually take.

My pytest series has gone quiet. I have not published a new part in a while now, and I would rather say that plainly than pretend it is still actively running.

One of my conference proposals was not accepted this round. It is a small disappointment, but putting yourself forward regularly means collecting a few rejections along the way too.