Chris Kenst

Yup! Fun times!

Watched this and loved it! Nice job @scott.hanselman.com

Star Trek has tractor beams. So do we. But so far, they can't grab anything bigger than a dime.

Tractor beams really do exist. They’re just very small:

expmag.com/2022/01/star...

Not even this post!

Looks like a fun game! Nothing like a little physical contact together.

I’m good. Good to “see” you btw!

Forgot I had a blue sky account. How is everyone?

How is your week going?

Bicycles chained next to a small ramp sloping downwards near a river in a city. The red-ringed warning sign at the top of the ramp shows a cyclist whose bike is hitting a surprised man wearing a top hat and brandishing an umbrella. The man has lost control of his dog's leash and the dog also looks alarmed

This sign looks like it was created in response to a very specific incident

Observability, Monitoring and Testing Observability blurs the line between testing and monitoring. Luckily the concept TOAD helps us understand it's relationship to testing.

I did.

Ok I hit publish: www.kenst.com/observabilit...

Yeah I was looking for tags associated with it but this query works, thanks.

Feel free to correct my misunderstandings. I don’t see any other recent articles on it from either of you.

I actually remember the concept from back in 2019 and it’s stuck with me since then. Just kind of came up for this article.

Observability, Monitoring and Testing Observability blurs the line between testing and monitoring. Luckily the concept TOAD helps us understand it's relationship to testing.

I did.

Ok I hit publish: www.kenst.com/observabilit...

Cool that’s what I thought.

I wrote an article that I’m about to publish and refer to work you did on the TOAD concept.

I just recorded an audio version of the article and realized I should make sure I said your name right, lol.

@chrismcmahon.bsky.social how do you pronounce your last name?

It’s going to be very good and hard to watch lol.

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

arstechnica.com/health/2023/...

Want to learn about mapping your domain and technology confidence at different system layers?

Join me FREE* this Tuesday the 28th of November for my Masterclass "Teamwork Makes the Full-Stack Testing, Dream Work".

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Jealous! I’d love to make time one year lol.

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The holidays are a great reminder to… hit the unsubscribe button on all those random emails you never remember signing up for.

(GIF posting not great yet)

23 is a lot of conferences!

Closing the gap between confidence and knowledge Part of our misbelief in things comes from the gap between our confidence and what we really know. Confronting that can prove exciting.

our limited understanding of it. It reminded me of a story I experienced early on in my career:

www.kenst.com/the-gap-betw...

I was listening to a podcast and the topic of The Illusion of Explanatory Depth came up.

It's a bias that describes our belief that we understand more about the world than we actually do. It is often not until we are asked to actually explain a concept that we come face to face with our...

Oh wow. Hahaha

I see where you are coming from, that’s helpful.

LOL. This all seems like very reasonable stuff.

Oh, nice. What do mission and mandates mean in this context?

I’ve always meant to ask this but, why is exploratory testing in the upper right?

Seems like you can take an exploratory approach to most of those techniques listed. Right?

What was the structure like?

Oh nice!