Open Educational Resources. In this video, we'll explore them together and see how you can use them in your courses. Let's go beyond the traditional textbook and just imagine. What if you could reuse teaching materials from your peers from other universities? What if you could customize this content and add your own reflection moments and updates? What if you could remix several sources and create course-tailored modules? What if you and your students could co-create reusable and non-disposable content? What if your students could collaborate to create their own content? And what if you could release these materials for open reuse, free of legal or financial restrictions? Now, how can we make all of this possible? The answer involves open educational resources and open licenses. Open Educational Resources, or OER, are teaching and learning materials that are free of cost and access barriers, which also carry legal permissions for open reuse, which allows anyone to freely use, adjust and share these resources. Let's take a look at a few examples of OERs. Think of an open textbook like this one, or collections of university-level syllabi, like these ones. Another example would be open interactive simulations and open courseware with full course content. What is open then? Open means free and involving certain permissions, also accessible online. These permissions are often referred to as the five Rs. Here's what you can do with open educational resources. You can retain them, you can reuse them, also revise them and remix several resources, redistribute them among others. Now, these permissions in OER are enabled by using open licenses. Creative Commons licenses are the most widely used type of open licenses. They consist of several elements that can be remixed to create special licenses. By using these licenses, the author indicates what is and is not allowed to be done with their resource. Many of your everyday teaching resources are actually licensed with Creative Commons licenses, like OpenStacks textbooks, Wikipedia, Khan Academy and TED videos. Why should you use open educational resources? Well, first of all, they are learner-oriented and allow you to engage in student-centered pedagogy. They are customizable and more dynamic, allowing you to update and localize the content. They are more sustainable and open to easier reuse. They enable quicker and easier transition to online and blended education. They are resource-saving for teachers and students. They are more inspiring and helping you to be innovative. They enhance academic freedom of teachers and students, allowing for greater choice and variety. They help you contribute to open science and, very importantly, they are accessible to all, without legal or financial barriers, and they support lifelong learning. Now, how can you use OER in your teaching? First of all, you can adopt already existing resources without any major changes. Or you can go ahead and adapt them, customize, localize and update them. You could create your own open resources and share them with others. Or you could combine a few existing resources with your own content. To translate this into action, you could start with small steps and engage with open educational practices. Try and replace your traditional textbook with an open one or with several open chapters. Integrate supplementary OER as self-study materials for your students. Use open pedagogical approaches to co-create reusable assignments together with your students. Let your students collaborate on adapting or creating new open materials, for example, a video or a collection of notes. Share your OER under an open license with the rest of the world. We encourage you to start small and to innovate. Now, where would you look for open educational resources? A great place to start at would be websites such as OER Commons. It's a public repository of open educational resources, also a tool for creating and uploading your own resources. You can search for supplementary materials for different courses of different levels here. Another highly recommended resource to check is Edisources, a Netherlands-specific search engine with materials in Dutch and in English from your peers across the country. If you're looking for open textbooks to reuse in your courses, the best place to go to would be Open Textbook Library. It's a collection of open textbooks from different subjects that often contain detailed faculty reviews. If you're looking for openly licensed images and other multimedia, we encourage you to use CC Search Engine. Here you can also filter your search results by a relevant open license. All of this might seem a bit overwhelming. Where should you start? To begin with, you could explore the OER in your narrow subject area. Reading community reviews of available OER could help a lot too. Once you've found something, you should determine if you need to edit or adapt it in any way. And if you get stuck, you can always get help at the University Library. OER and open education are becoming more and more mainstream and there is much to learn and more opportunities to discover. Are you interested in diving deeper? You can get support at the University of Groningen Library. You can contact our education specialists. Attend one of our webinars and check out our OER LibGuide. Remember that open is a process, so good luck exploring and using open educational resources. Thanks for watching!


At sea, Elegans neuromuscular junctions, two types of voltage-gated calcium channels, CAV2 and CAV1, are responsible for the release of distinct pools of synaptic vesicles. CAV2 channels are located in densely packed clusters near the active zone, while CAV1 channels are dispersed throughout the synapse. CAV2 channels are activated by voltage-gated calcium influx, which triggers the fusion of vesicles located within 33 nanometers of the dense projection. In contrast, CAV1 channels are activated by calcium influx from the ryanidine receptor, which is located nearby. This allows for the simultaneous activation of both channels, resulting in faster and more efficient neurotransmission. This article was authored by Brian D. Mueller, Sean A. Merrill, Shigeki Watanabe, and others.


All right, so I think this stream is all up to date. Yeah, so I thought I'd just do a little bit of a chatting stream as I'm, I don't know what to talk about right now. Thought I'd just do a quick chatting stream to see how you guys are doing as of right now. I don't want to put any messages in chat. I'm here, it might not be always here at every point in the time, but I'll try to stay on as long as possible. Let's lookie here to expand that. Give you some more room. Just testing this out here. All right, let's go participants. All right, so I'm the only one watching the stream right now. Okay. So I'm sorry for the long wait time if anyone is watching, that Streamlabs isn't telling me about. Yeah, I don't know what to talk about at this point. I mean, I've been busy working on other computer restorations, stuff like that. I think what I'm gonna do though is because no one seems to be popping on the stream. I'm gonna stop this one right here. I may pick it up a bit later tonight, maybe when everyone's like down with their work and stuff. So yeah, I'm gonna end the stream here. I hope I'll see you guys a bit later tonight. Until then, bye-bye.


In this short video we're going to have a look at downloading the data from understanding society. In order to download data through the UK data service you will need to be registered with us. If you haven't already done this then you do this by clicking on the register icon in the top right hand corner. Here all you need to do is click on register with the UK data service under the heading new users. If you're at a UK based university then you're going to be using your normal institutional login details. So here you need to start typing in the name of your organization. For example I'm at Essex. If you type in the word Essex you'll see the number of institutions. Simply select the one that's relevant to you and then click on continue. You will then be taken to your usual institutional login page. Enter your normal username and password and then follow the steps through to register. It should only take you a few minutes. If you need any additional guidance you can find a video tutorial on our website. Once you've registered with us you can go to our website and have a look for the data. There are a number of ways to find data on our website but we know which survey we're interested in. So we'll use the get data and the key data page. Understanding societies are longitudinal studies so we'll click on the link for longitudinal studies and this will bring up a list of the key longitudinal studies that we hold and understanding society is at the bottom of the screen. Simply click on the name and then it will give you a list of all the data sets that are available. The one that we want to download is under study number 6614 and that's the data from waves 1 to 6. Simply click on the survey name and that will take you to the data catalogue page. Please take a few moments to read through this page as there's a lot of useful information about the data on this page. To download the data we simply click on the download slash order link. If you're not already logged in you'll be prompted to log in. Again you'll log in using your institutional details. When you're registered as a user you will have been asked to enter details about the project for which you wish to use data form. I've got a number of usages here. We'll select the top one and then we'll click on add data sets. Here's understanding society ready and then we just need to click on download. There is an end user license agreement so please do take a few moments to have a look at the conditions of use. Before you click on I accept. Now all the data sets we hold are available in a number of different formats. We're going to be using SPSS for all of the exercises in this module so we click on the SPSS button. You will then be shown a zip folder and in this zip folder contains all of the information. This is what we call the data download. In here you'll find the data itself but you will also find all of the relevant documentation such as the user guide and the questionnaires and that's how we download data through the UK data service.


What would you do if you were given $5,000 and the only strings attached to it were that you had to build the perfect Three-watch collection? How would you decide which watches to choose? But more importantly, which watches would you choose? It's an interesting question, isn't it? Well, I've got a few ideas myself and you're gonna find out what they are right after this. I'm Brian Sakao and you're watching He Spoke Style where we've got all the tips, knowledge, and inspiration you need to dress well, have more confidence, and unlock your potential. This video is sponsored by Chrono24 and very excited to partner with them as it's a website and app that I have used for a very long time. In fact, you may remember that I mentioned their market tracking capability in the video where I told the story of how and why I sold my Patek Philippe 5711. What you need to know is that Chrono24 is a luxury watches only marketplace with both new pre-owned and rare vintage finds. Over 500,000 watches listed by trusted dealers and private sellers from all over the world with 120,000 of those listed from within the United States alone.  You name it, you're gonna find it on Chrono24. One of the best things that they have though is an extremely comprehensive filtering feature. A lot of times, you know, you may be looking for something very specific and it's super nice to be able to really zero in like that because it makes it so much easier and less time consuming. I've got links down below for you to check out Chrono24 as well as links to all of the watches I'm gonna be mentioning in this video. So as I was thinking about which watches to pick, I came up with some criteria that really guided the choices that I made. With three watches, you have an opportunity to build an incredibly versatile collection and basically to have a watch for any type of situation you would find yourself in. So I decided to break the watches down into three categories. There had to be a dress watch, there had to be a sport watch, and then there had to be what I would call an everyday kind of watch. So dress, sport, and everyday. Also, instead of including any new watches, all the choices that I made were pre-owned. A lot of the brands I chose would be considered luxury brands. And as you know, with a carefully selected pre-owned watch, you're getting a much bigger bang for your buck. So with the rest of that, prices are variable. And as I chose these watches, I did my best to kind of survey the price range and make my choices based on the average price that you could expect to pay for the watch in the pre-owned market. Now there are lots of ways that you could allocate $5,000 to build that perfect three-watch collection. You could have one watch that you spend most of your budget on. You could try to spread it evenly across the three. There are endless possibilities, and I would encourage you to leave your perfect under 5K three-watch collection down in the comments. As for me, I didn't want to give you just one option, so I actually put together two collections, both of which check all my boxes. So without further ado, let's get into them. Starting off the first collection with the Seiko Sarb 033. This is my everyday watch here for this collection, only available as pre-owned now because it is a discontinued model with an average price of around $800. Seiko, of course, great brand history, the design is very simple, great value for the price, and I specifically chose this one as my everyday watch because it is so incredibly versatile. At 38mm, it's a great size for just about any wrist. It's an automatic movement. It's got a see-through case back and an absolutely gorgeous dial. Date window, very practical, stainless steel bracelet. I love the mix of the polished and brushed steel throughout. It's a beautiful watch that I think looks much richer than its price tag. For our sport watch, I'm going with the Tudor Heritage Black Bay 79230N, coming in at around $3,500. This is a much-loved and very highly regarded watch. 41mm stainless steel case, screw-down crown, 200 meters of water resistance, beautiful matte black dial with rose gold plated indices and hands. It's got a unidirectional diving bezel with the 60-minute track printed on the aluminum insert. The automatic movement is the in-house caliber MT5602. Variety of bracelet options, including a steel riveted bracelet, a leather strap with a folding clasp, or a NATO strap. That really is one of the best parts about a dive watch like this and that you can really increase its versatility and give it an entirely new look just by changing the bracelet. For our dress watch in this collection, I decided to go vintage, and I chose a vintage Omega Seamaster, which comes in at around $700 though. They can definitely be found for less than that. I like this one as a dress watch because of its elegance, because of its simplicity, and because of its size. In the realm of vintage Seamasters, you're looking at about a 35 or 36mm case. I love a smaller case size for a dressier watch. I think it gives it a real sense of old-school understatement and elegance. And I think a vintage piece, when we're talking about dressed up looks or even a formal look, is a perfect match. So rounding up and recapping our first collection here at $800, we have the Seiko Sarb 033 at $3,500. The Tudor Heritage Black Bay. And at $700, a vintage Omega Seamaster. Now let's take a look at our second collection. Starting off with the everyday watch. And for this one, I'm choosing the Hamilton Kaki Field Mechanical. This is the H69439931, coming in at $500. A little bit more rugged of an everyday pick compared to the Seiko Sarb. But this collection I've kind of geared more towards an overall casual feel. We do have a very classic dress watch pick that you'll want to stick around for. This watch though is 38mm, again a very versatile size. It's got that great military look. You'll see it mostly on a fabric strap, though you can definitely add a leather strap if you like. One thing to know about this one is that it's not an automatic movement, which means you're going to have to wind it. But for me, I love the connection that actually winding the watch creates between you and the watch itself. For our sport watch here, I'm going with the Omega Speedmaster Reduced 351050, coming in at $2,500 that you can find them for less. Great classic chronograph, unmistakable looks, and extremely versatile as it just looks amazing on so many different types of straps. It's called Reduced because of the size. Typical Speedmaster Professional is going to be 42mm. Mine, the first Omega in space, is just under 40mm, and the Speedmaster Reduced is 38.5mm. Just something to be aware of, but if your wrist is on the smaller side and you do love the Speedmaster, this is a great choice at an excellent price point. And to round out the second collection for our dress watch, I'm choosing the Cartier Tank Solo. We've got a little bit of a caveat here in that if you've been keeping score, we're already at $3,000. So we've got to find this watch for around $2,000, which I will admit can be a little difficult. Now, one thing to keep in mind though when you are dealing with pre-owned watches is that you do have a little wiggle room, especially if you're able to speak directly with a seller. So basically what I'm saying is it never hurts to ask. This watch, though, what can you say about a Cartier Tank? It's the epitome of elegance. At this price point, you're going to be dealing with smaller case sizes, which again contribute to what I would call the elegance factor. It's one of the small handful of watches that I would consider to be a perfect tuxedo watch. And I know that whether or not to wear a watch with a tuxedo is really one of those questions that really divides people. I would even say that it ranks among the top three most decisive menswear issues. I have a few opinions on it, and I lay them all out in that video right over there. Definitely check that out and add your voice to the very lively discussion in the comments on that one.


And today I am talking about open source projects and digital issues around it. So most of the things which I am going to talk about, you might have looked at it in some way or the other, sometimes you may not have even attention to the whole issue. But let's look at it from a different perspective and see what are the risks when you open source projects generally face and how you can mitigate those risks and what are the community way of looking at the risks and the issues which we face in the open source projects. And what are the global best practices when we look at some of the risks and some of the legal issues and how we can avoid all those issues. So when we talk about the legal issues, so first of all let me say this is not a legal advice. This is an educational approach because the laws across the globe is different. The corporate law in US and India or Singapore might differ. So it is not a legal advice but what I will be trying to make the attempt is to talk about the best practices globally. So let's look at copyright issues, trademark issues and paid issues. So as you have seen most of these things you would have noticed might not have paid attention to but so let's start from copyright. So what is a copyright? Basically generally for software the protection is generally in most of the decisions is through copyright. So is an exclusive legal right to control the rules for copying, modifying and distributing a copyright. And who could be a copyright owner? You could be the individual, you could be an association, you could be a foundation at first in your own company. And typically you would have seen, this is an example of a copyright notice. A copyright at the right seat and then here you have done that.   If you are a company you should put your company's name. So that gives an idea to somebody who is looking at that piece of code or library or whatever you have done. That this has been done by this gentleman or this foundation or this individual. And all the rights for modification for distribution you should check with and under what license that we will talk about later. So this is the indication which gives you like okay this is the person or the foundation or the trust I should talk for anything I have to do with. And typically like in India the copyright right extends to 60 years. The lifetime of the author for 60 years. It varies in different jurisdictions. But broadly it is a long drawn protection. So when we look at open source projects, you know, irrespective of the, you would find that there is a copyright notice. So that provides the information of the rights of the owner of the users.  And what are the rights typically would be understood from the copyright notice. So copyright notice and then the license information. So these are the two most important legal information which I look in for any open source project. If it is not there then there is something an issue. Because the downstream users will not able to understand what are these rights. So there are good chances that your team may not be using your project at all. Because most of this information is that. So you would also look at, you know, different projects have different ways of protecting the copyright. So the contributors license agreement is one way of protecting your, you know, copyright information. And the developer certificate of origin is another important legal agreement, you know, which protects the rights. Now let's move on to the trademark issues. So what is a trademark? The trademark is an object of this name. So whether it is goods or services, there is a trademark. So and there is an inferred source origin and quality. Let's say when we say a property, there is a quality. We know there is a company working behind it. So what this helps in is to create confusion. So later in the session I will be talking about in what all instances we have seen confusion. So the trademark owners have the obligation to protect their mark. It's not the users. Users have to comply with the trademark obligation. So open source projects needs to have trademark and also take trademark orders. So the way you write, you know, let's say Apache Foundation, the way, yeah, the trademark policy will tell you the way Apache Foundation has to be done. And who can use it? In what instances? So as I told you, it avoids confusion. It gives you a source of origin, quality, and all those things. So this is one point for another, every open source project in respect of the region you are in. So one example, good example was the Debian and the Mozilla Foundation issues around the Firefox trademark issue, which started in 2006 and added in February 2016. So for 10 years, this issue was going on. So it's always better when you are having starting a new project, please make sure that you have a proper trademark assigned and you have a trademark policy. So everybody is using that project knows that this is the way this has to be done. That should be illustrated in your website in your trademark policy. The other famous instance was when Amazon was sued by elastic search. So there are so many instances across the globe where companies projects have issues. So please safeguard your trademark and have a trademark policy. And the best projects across the globe has good trademark and trademark policy. And please search that such names are not used already. The other example is the Java trademark, which is owned by Oracle, but Eclipse Foundation used to use it for a long time. There was a lot of conversation around this and finally they had to give up. So unable to convince the Oracle to allow the users of trademark on Java to refer to the open source version of Java Enterprise Edition, Eclipse Foundation is asking those who care about such things to vote on. So it's a nice situation after using that name.  So it is quite difficult. And there is a lot of cost. If somebody has to change the project name, there is a lot of confusion it creates. So it's better at the start of the project itself to think about the project name, trademark, copyright and all these things. Don't put it to a later instance where there is a lot of confusion. So it is the interest of the trademark holder. So let's say I have got a trademark for my project, open source project. It is my obligation, my interest to safeguard that. If somebody is misusing my trademark, I should enforce my trademark against them and stop, you know, should not allow them to use that trademark. Because they are deriving, so there will be confusion. People will think that, okay, this is done by Apache Foundation. Let's say Apache Foundation doesn't enforce their trademark. Then people would see that, okay, this originated from Apache Foundation project. And there could be sometimes cyber security instance or threats or malwares in those projects. Because when I use those projects, I thought that it is from Apache Foundation, but it may not be. So it's very important that you protect if you are a trademark holder, you are the foundation of the trust. You should protect and enforce your trademark. Now let's look into the patents aspect. So if you see the preamble of GPL, it says, Finally, any program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of the free program will individually obtain patent license in effect, making the program proprietary. To provide this, we made it clear that any patent license will be used or not. Now let's look into Apache 2.0. Okay, 2.6. Grant of patent license. Subject to the terms and conditions of this license, each contributor hereby grants to you a perpetual worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, revocable, etc., as stated in this section. Patent license to make have made use, offer to sell, import and otherwise transfer the work. Where such license applies only to those patents is licensable by such contributor that necessarily influenced by the contributors, alone or by combination of their contribution with the work to which such contribution was submitted. So basically the whole free software community doesn't believe in software patent, most of them. That doesn't stop the patent frauds or operating entities. So the whole open source projects has been patent at various instances by two types of entities, earlier an operating entity. When I say the word operating entity, operating entities are entities which have products or services. And then there is another type of entity which is called non-practicing entities. Non-practicing entities are entities which justify patents and they don't have any products or services. Then they start asserting these various entities across the globe. So in the recent past, Genome Foundation was sued. So and one of the main reasons why open source foundations are a good target for patent frauds for the fundamental reasons that globally these projects are used. And in a typical scenario, in a perfect scenario, when one entity is sued, they have a patent portfolio which they can retaliate using that. But in an open source foundation, because open source foundations don't file for patents generally, they don't have the defensive capacity. So it is very important that open source foundations think of defensive strategies because they don't have patents and they don't file for patents. So they can't have an offensive strategy. So the only way they can look at it is having a defensive strategy. How as a community, we can come together and protect the community. So in 2019, Genome Foundation was sued by a big control called as CrowdShot. So when Genome Foundation was sued, they joined the community that is Open Invention Network community. What we did was we gave them priora. Using the priora, they went for crowd funding. Because patent litigation and defense is a very costly affair. So they then went for invalidation of this patent of CrowdShot, which is called CrowdShot. CrowdShot allows that Genome Foundation to be fixed. And that's the patent number. And once the invalidation proceedings started against CrowdShot, gave license to all the patents which they had. And this is a statement post this from Rothstein. I'm pleased to announce that the patent dispute between Rothstein and patent imaging and you know, I'm pleased that they managed to settle this issue amicably. I've always supported innovation of open source software and its developers and encourage its innovation and adoption. So in the first instance, they sued an open source foundation. And later on they made this statement. And the best part what happened after this was, after the settlement, using the priora which Open Invention Network gave, somebody went and invalidated the patent of Rothstein. So that is the final conclusion this time. So it is very important that the community comes together. I have a defensive strategy. So one of the biggest community in the defensive strategy is Open Invention Network. I'll put a disclaimer here. I'm part of Open Invention Network. I represent the Indian Union. So what we do at Open Invention Network is, it's the largest community in the world.   Anybody can join the community. This was initiated a 16 years back. And today we have companies, startups and projects. Even Linux Foundation is part of the project community. Anybody can join. They join through an e-license. The only obligation you have is that in case you have a Linux platform, you will not assert it against any other community member. Other community members watch out for the same reciprocal flags. And wherever you are in the world, you can be part of the community. There is no commercial to join the community. And so we have a cross license of 2.1 million product wagons. So this ranges from 3,885 software applications. And some of the protections we provide. So you can see the community members who are part of OAN, Open Source Projects globally. Not Rockstar. Not Rockstar. Not Rockstar. They will be happy to now join us. They will now join us. So the only people who don't join OAN is people who have an intent to be a patent group who want Rockstar. So if you see from the composition of the 3,885 software applications, it looks something like this. So almost all areas of technology is covered. Open Source technology is covered. So at various times in the past it was operating entities which behaved like patent groups. In recent times it is not just operating entities. It is non purchasing entities which are creating work. I work in the whole ecosystem. So there are various other, you know, entities which work on the defensive strategies. So Open Invention is the largest among them. So now let's move on to the Open Source complex. So this has various problems because in the whole supply chain of software, how do you ensure Open Source complex? Let's say you have vendors across the globe. Or you have contributors across the globe. How do you ensure that each of them are following the same set of groups? And ensuring that the level of education compliance is the same. So there is a Linux Foundation project called as Open Chain. Open Chain, the objective of Open Source, how Open Chain is to ensure that in the whole supply chain of software development there should be compliance. Let's take a scenario where you have people contributing to a technology group. How do we put a standard that, okay, this is the benchmark you should do? Because my understanding might be different. My friends' understanding who is contributing from a different region in the world might be different. How do we have the basic common platform? So that is taken care by Open Chain. So Open Chain 2.1 specification has now become the ISO standard. So you can do a self-certification. You can get a third party certification. And in fact, there is a security specification which is so in drama. And so all those issues related to license security around Open Source compliance because typically globally this is one of the biggest problems like Open Source compliance. That's the objective of this community. And we have seen that most of the companies globally are gearing and adopting Open Chain as the standard. Whether you're in telecom, whether you're in the security sector, you are. And that helps to mitigate. And the contribution is not just from one region in the world. The good part is that companies, individuals across the globe, across various domains are contributing to this project. And we all know that the documentation, license compliance, these are the issues which most of the companies projects face. So Open Chain would be a good answer to all those problems and solutions. You know, provides great solutions. And I would be happy if you could look into Open Chain 2.1, our specifications there. And I'm also looking forward for the security specification. And you would have seen globally there is a lot of security challenge which opens this space in the last 10 years. Which also has in certain cases affected the credibility in certain cases. So communities like Open Chain would be a great bet. So if you have any questions? Yeah, so if you see globally, in US there is this Alice judgment. But what happens to existing patents which has already been landed? And sometimes it's very difficult to decide between the software patents and if it is not just the software patents. Because the patent authority there in each region has different standards. So in US, of course the Alice judgment software patents are not allowed. But there has been various instances where software patents has been allowed. So in Europe software per se is not allowed. Patent per se is not allowed. But if it isn't for terms of the ROL, so that differentiation is very difficult. So somebody has to scrutinize each software application. And the rules of the game is different in different parts of the world. So maybe in New Zealand they have stopped software patents. Even in India, software per se cannot be patented. But we have CRI guidelines, completely related invention guidelines. So if you can pass that guidelines, you get a patent. So the rules of the game is different. So I don't think in the near future we will see software not being landed patents. Open game has not something to think. What Open Game does today is prescribes to the best standard. For example, if you are a company or a project, you should have one of those policies. So we also include that we train your team that what is the best practices. You review, confirm the license requirements. You train them, make them understand because generally license information obligations are left out by people. So whether it is copyright or there is a modification of it. All those things have to be looked into and then only you can be confirmed with Open Game. So there is 1.1 specification, 1.1, 1.1, 2 and 2.1. So only if you are confirmed with 2.1 that is equal to an ISO standard. So training, compliance, audit, review. So all these processes at least makes some level of compliance. So whether it is open type TPD or anything. These rules of the game are same. So training, compliance and enforcement. It doesn't matter if they use the stamp to set up. So the rules of the game are same. License compliance is required.


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It's good to be back. You guys probably didn't even notice because I recorded so much footage in advance in case something like this happens. But as you can probably hear from my voice, I have been so sick for the last like five days.  On day one through four, I had no voice.  And I was, dude, I couldn't record a single video. It pissed me off so bad. I can't tell you a time in the last five or six years where I've gone more than four days without recording a video, which sounds crazy coming out of my mouth now.  I record almost every day now. I'm still a little sick, but I'm over it, dude. I'm getting antsy. I'm ready to make some new videos.  Let's hop in. Today we're playing house rules, two things. Number one, there is a huge, like game breaking glitch in house rules. Not going to explain it unless we run into it. I'm not going to run it either.  This is basically my wheel of mud lineup. I don't have any players that aren't wheel of mud, except we got a few sub-ins here that we wouldn't usually use here. This little Michael Thomas right here. Free safety Calvin Johnson. He's an 84 overall. So we're going to sub out Lamar Jackson's father for Megatron. It's an 84 overall team. It's nothing super cheesy. I think the highest overall right now is 91. I see a lot of people online running 90 overall teams. So I actually kind of like this.  All right, this is our squad. I'm over being sick. I just want to make videos. Let's hop in. I love house rules. I love when they bring it back. I don't love when there's big glitches in it. But I think this is one of the coolest ones. It's a 10 drive tug of war overtime, which means you get 10 plays. If you score a touchdown at any point, games over, you win. Or if it goes all 10 rounds, so one play each 10 times, whoever's closest to the other team's goal line is going to win. So similar to Superstar KO tug of war, except it's had a three plays, you get 10. I think it's so dope. Let's see how this goes. And don't forget to check out my game versus tie on the game day. I already played Throne and Kenny. It's always a huge match up. Me and Ty are doing the upcoming hackers versus 49ers game. It's sick, so make sure you check it out on the game days YouTube. Also want to give a huge thank you to MPL, the mobile premier league for sponsoring this video. MPL is such an awesome platform. They literally have all your favorite games that we're all familiar with in one place. It's like fruit shop, bowling, solitaire, and even more. The best part about it is that you could play them and earn real money while you play. I love eight ball blast. So I'm going to hop into a game right now. First shot corner pocket, easy. Let's go. This one's a little trickier, but I think I got it. Let's get it. And this is the game winner right here for times 10. And we drilled it. Let's go. And now I'm getting paid. It's that easy. You can win up to $50,000 daily by competing and playing games on MPL. Plus that makes it super easy to withdraw your earnings to your PayPal account or your bank. So make sure to click the link in the top of the description to download MPL or get it on the app store. Start playing your favorite games and earning real cash. Plus check out the bonuses. Sign up now. You get a $5 bonus order for a friend and get up to a $20 bonus. Make sure to check it out right now and enjoy the rest of the video. Ah, we're running into it already. We're literally running into it already. This is the glitch.   Whoever scores first wins. However, in house rules, there's supposed to be no special teams. You're not supposed to be able to kick a field goal. It's supposed to be offensive plays only. But in Madden 22, I need to throw a dot here to Darren Waller.  Oh my God, he's got a God squad. The game's over now. I just lost. He's got a God squad and he's doing the cheese. The cheat is you're going to see him. He's going to come out and field goal here unless I guess he just wants to get the touchdown from the 10. Basically you're not supposed to be able to come out and punt or kick like what he's about to do. But Madden 22 has this new feature called favorite plays where if double click on something is this good for the plot? Yeah, he's coming out in the kick.  Well, at least we're seeing it early. So what he did was he went into a solo challenge. He favorited punt and field goal. So now when he comes into head to head house rules, he has punt and field goal as an option for him. So we just ran to the glitch in game one, which is so sad.   How do you not see this coming EA? I swear to God that people who make Madden don't play it.  My goal today is I want to beat somebody who's doing this. I so badly want to beat somebody doing this. But here's the thing. I don't blame the players at all. I think people who do it are like total losers, but this is EA's fault. It's in the game. People want their house rules wins. They want to get their like, you know, the players from it. So I don't blame him at all. Ooh, and I'm going to hit a laser here to sink on Barclay. All right, let's see if he punts it to me. All right, you know what? We got an actual game here. I respect it. Kyler Murray at quarterback. Ooh, he's going to throw that corner out most likely. There is nothing open. There is nothing. No, I was so close. That's like Kyler Murray in real life right there, bro.  Ooh, Darren Waller just, whoa, he runs a post. I didn't even realize he was going to run that post. I think that was an option route for him. He's got this. There's not a lot open. There that is not open, sir. Let's go. We're going to hit Barclay just barely and he makes a good play, very good play. But we still got five yards there. Does not look like he has a lot open here. He's going to throw the check down. Ooh, he's fast though.  I haven't ran RPL Peaks on Bubble the entire year. I literally have no idea who this is. Aw, I got a little bit of a glitch. I guess lag might be more appropriate, but you know what? Dude, now that I'm looking at that, that was not that bad. All right, I'm on RB. I don't think A is open. I mean, I think if he throws that, it's a pick. Bro, and now that he's seen RPL Peaks on Bubble, I can run Mountain Stutter Go and hopefully I can hit Waller on this slant. I can also hit Tyrone Kill over the top potential. Oh my God. Dude, it actually worked to perfection. And we might score. Oh, I took a bad angle. I got around one. He bit on the pass option. That's real football right there, baby. Oh. Not sure what the main coverage was doing there. We had a main coverage on Hawkinson. I'm just going to send Waller down the seam like an absolute savage and we're going to toss it. Throwing an interception is really not that bad here. Oh, I can still throw Barkley? Oh my God, wait, this is cracked. I found my new offense. It's literally RPL Peaks on Bubble all over again. The corner out is not there this time. I don't think it is. Oh my God. I've never seen this many options for the Peaks zone. And look at that, Barkley's, oh, maybe not that open though. Oh, A is open, bro. Can you get there? Oh, what? Oh, he's out of bounds. No, he's not. He just went from the 34 to the other 34, I think. Oh no, he didn't. Wow. Unlucky, bro. I thought for sure he had that. This is not a man coverage of that game. Oh, I'm so sorry, bro. I could have smarted you out that fast. Gene, hey, good game, Gene. I needed my dub after getting actually glitched out in the first game. But I love to see baby, he's not punting. Got a game on our hands. All right, you're going to step up. Ooh, he's going to get out of bounds. Um, I have lots of options here. Whoa, he just threw an underhand shovel pass but you never even clowned. He was just got smacked in the face with it. First thing goal, he's got a little play action here. Nothing is open. I just got a defensive pass interference. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to put Barclay on the money route and hope that he takes everything else. Good, good, good, good. Yes, we got it to Barclay, we dodged one. Tug of war, baby, this is what it was built for. It's only, dude, we got time to, good. Let's go, let's go. I'm going to put Kelsey on a slant.  Maybe a corner route out of A. And we'll just look either Kelsey or Waller.  Not the end zone over good. Yup, let's go. We have a shot. We're fine, we're fine, we're fine, we're fine. There's Darren Waller, baby. Great, catch and run. We got lots of room, we're going to swarm one. Keep going, Waller. He's got Jerry Rice, Saquon Barclay, DK Metcalfe.  All right, we're just going to look for Barclay. Easy. And Cam cannot catch me, we get one juke. Oh, why? Step up. Oh, you're so close to that. I really can't tell. Waller! Dude, why did Stafford just wind that up like he was starting a lawn mower? All right, let's just make a clean tackle here. Yup. Dude, this pass rush is insane. No way. Oh my God, I usered that. All right, we'll just get Waller. Ooh, ah, smart. Oh, that works too. Can he out on a DK though? No, but he takes it to the 46. Oh my God. Yup, I knew it was going to be a quick blitz. Michael Thomas caught it. Wait, that's game? Oh my God, let's go. Wait a second, so the pass is a bad idea. I should have just kneeled the ball. Dumbass. He does not, ooh, ooh, do the blocks get there?  I don't think I can get to why here. I don't think I'm fast enough. Nope. After that dog fight, I can't just come out here and lose this.  Bro, I really think Darren Waller is just going to be open. Oh, he's so open. Get through him. Let's go. You're small. You're all small.  He's literally running four verticals. You cannot throw this, bro. Come here, Vince. All right, Darren Waller. Joke. That was Darren Waller's run so close. He's scoring the touchdown. I'm sending heaters for a reason. Uh-oh, uh-oh. Who am I on, bro? I'm on jump. Oh! We just went off of safety. We actually got out of the QB. I just went off of safety. I think that was O-A too. Adobe O-A, is that his name?  Two hours later.  I was looking at my phone.  He's doing it, bro. Let's see if we can beat a glitcher. It's not going to be easy to beat someone doing this. Practice will be very difficult. Also, he's in a super, this guy's a sweat. He's a sweaty sweater. He's in the sweatiest defense you ever see online. Okay? Darren Waller's got it? Yes, sir! Yes, sir! Letting his computer tackle for him.   I swear to God, we can do it.   I have to play flawless. I have to play absolutely flawless. Oh, he fucking, he put a, he put a clown flat over there. Oh, I wanted to beat one of these guys so bad. Guy let his computer make the tackless form too.  But it's not his fault, bro. It is EA's fault. Direct your anger at EA if anyone does this to you online.  Here we go again. Let's go, baby! The problem is no matter how far down the field I get, they're going to punt it. So I really, I like, have to throw the touchdown. Gotta go so deep, right? Oh, bro. Oh, clamped. Clamped like no other. I want it so bad, dude. I want to get it so bad. EA, I'm mad at you for this malarkey right here. This is, I don't use that word. I've never used it. This is malarkey. I'm looking that up.  Foolish talk. I don't think I used that properly. Do not attach any association of this to me whatsoever. I have nothing to do with such idiocy.  Ooh, Waller was kinda there, but look who's open underneath is Michael Thomas.  I should put heart return middle as a favorited play. Oh, but then they kick it out of bounds.  It's EA's fault. It's EA's fault. EA sports.  Jamar Chase running a nasty slant. You're still out of field goal range, buddy.  You can do your putt BS all you want. I'm gonna hold you hostage here.    I'm holding you hostage. What do I look like a guy who has better things to do?   Uh-oh, is this it for me? Oh, shit, he's in field goal range now. I have them hostage for a while. I'm proud of myself for that. Oh, go. My test. Oh, he don't. I guess I'm glad he picked it up by diving at it, but we could have scored another touchdown. All right, we're gonna throw the check down to say quads and we're just gonna run through a man. Oh, I love to say. Fake jet. Oh, that's a wide open. Kelsey got his body in front. We're just, we're sending way too many blitzers. Uh-oh. No. I'm gonna lose.  I guess it doesn't matter if people kick field goals against me, I'm just gonna lose. I'm gonna close it off here because I'm scared I want to keep playing and then I'm gonna run into five different punters and I'm gonna lose. I want to make this video for two reasons. Number one, house rules is one of my favorite things in Madden, especially like tug of war.  This is what video games are intended to be. Number two, I did want to say I think there should be a house rules where you can put any player in any position and they basically do it in the NFL all the time. Already this season, I've seen the Buccaneers put Vito Veta half back like two or three times on multiple goal line sets and you can't even do it in Madden. Like, bro, this is a video game. I saw the Titans put AJ Brown on defense for Hilmary, stuff like that. So I think they need a house rules for that.   It's like it was so disrespectful. This is an obvious glitch that everyone has known about since house rules came out. I was aware of this like five days ago when house rules came out and they've done nothing about it.  I mean, all the people want is the non-oximal, tradable, 8-8 overall, whatever, which isn't even that good of a reward, by the way, EA. You should have way better rewards. I think EA has an abysmal, an abysmal no money spent market. I should be able to grind for the best team in the game and the story.     I love you boys.  I love you. I'll see you in the next video. Peace.


Good morning, everybody. It's day two of training with the Knuckleboom Picker Truck, or the Crane Truck. We're just waiting for the truck. They needed it this morning for a delivery, and it was supposed to be back by now, but I guess it, you know how it is in trucking. Everything takes longer than expected. So we're waiting for the truck to get back, and then I will continue picking stuff up and putting it back down. I've got these fancy shades today. They're actually safety glasses. While I'm up there, I have to wear safety glasses that seal my face because of all the hydraulic oil running through all the lines. If any of it were to leak and spray towards my face, you definitely don't want any hydraulic oil in your eyes. I think the truck is back already, but it's parked up front over there. Yeah, it's still parked there. All the way at the end, there's that white truck, that Volvo right there, and then two red ones beside it, and then our blue nose poking out right behind it. You see it? That's the picker truck. It's supposed to be back by eight. It is now a quarter to nine. Adam's bugging him. I'm sure that there's always delays in everything, but yeah, so I'm going to get to my training as soon as we get all set up. We'll talk to you in a bit. Hopefully we can get some good footage today. It's a pretty fun piece of machinery to operate. And while I'm walking past here, I'm also going to be getting trained on this trailer. It won't take as long to train me on this as it does on the Knuckleboom truck. But you know, the front detach is here. After it's connected to the truck, and then you can literally drive heavy machinery right up onto here.  That's what I did all day. I picked stuff up and I put it down. And then I picked it up again. Picked it up off the trailer, put it on the ground. Picked it up off the ground, put it on the trailer. I think I'm getting better. I think I'm getting better. My trainer seemed to think that I was doing well. Said that I did well anyways. I'm going to go through some more training tomorrow yet and see where we go from there. I burnt though. My arms burnt. My neck burnt. My face probably burnt. My neck burnt. I said that right. Good thing I was wearing a hat and drank lots of water all day.  I just feel my neck. It's not that bad. My burns don't usually last that long. I'll be good in the morning. We are going to be training on this. Provided it's not provided they don't use it tomorrow for something else. I need to send it out on a load. We're going to be working on the pole truck way over there at the end there. And then we're going to be working on this. This is the RGN trailer. It's nine feet wide. So in some jurisdictions, some provinces here in Canada you have to have oversized loads on, oversized load signs on it. Just pulling the trailer when it's just empty. Because it's over dimension. Manitoba you don't need it. If you go to Ontario you've got to have that D sign on there. That's a Canadian thing. In the US you would need to have an oversized load sign on there with the word oversized load on it. Up here in Canada the D serves the same purpose. I got to walk across the yard. I parked my bike up front. And we were working out back. That sun is intense. And it's supposed to get hotter. It's been a really, really nice summer for riding. Not so nice for the farmers. They need rain. They need rain really well. My phone keeps dinging. It really wants to talk to me. But my hands are kind of full right now. So yeah I want to be sort of like the jack of all trades here. I want to be able to do everything. So whatever they need I can give them a handle. I guess the only other thing I'm not certified in after this is I can't drive the forklift so I'm not certified to drive a forklift. Just on our way home now. I figured I'd quickly stop by and give you another look at what I've been up to here. I just putted the bike across the yard. I want to let it warm up for a couple of minutes even though it's so hot out today. I like to have it idle, running slow for just a couple of minutes. Yeah, 3106K. You saw the footage from up there. It's actually a pretty good angle I think. I had the camera here strapped to my hard hat. We loaded up all these. When I get here in the morning we're going to unload these onto the ground here out of the way and then go and train on the RGN trailer a little bit. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. It's time to go home now though. It happened. We did it. We hit 10,000 miles. Happy bike and happy rider. She's running great too. Many many more miles ahead of her for the both of us yet. Does anybody in this house want to see me? Anybody miss me? Anybody at all? What's that noise? Anybody? Anybody? You thought I didn't know you were there? Come on. Come on. Oh guys, guys, guys, guys. There's plenty of me to go around. He's chubby. Did you miss me? You miss me? I got all sunburned today, man. I got all sunburned. Weiner. Oh, Weiner. Weiner, where are you going? You're looking for mom? She's not here, man. I'm sorry to disappoint you. Hey guys. Hey guys. Oh boy, I feel like I'm a tomato. Okay. Wow. Oh, you. Oh, my, my neck is definitely a little bit burnt. It'll just turn into a nice suntan. No worries. My arm looks like I got white gloves. Look at this. I was wearing my gloves up there all day. Man, that looks bad. And look at this. My farmer tan. I wear a t-shirt all day. Yikes. I tan so easy.  That's okay. That's why I'm on the internet because I'm okay with people laughing at me. It doesn't really burn though.  At least that's what I'm told you put moisturizer on. I don't think it's burnt though. It's just really, really brown. You can tell which part of me was in the sun today though. Yikes. Are you a wiener? Are you proud of me? Yeah, it's nice. It's all the side of the hospital. Is mommy over there? No, she's not, but I'm sure you all need to go out. Come on, boys. Diesel. I'm just going to grab a Pepsi. I want a Pepsi. Don't judge me. Hey, I said no judging. Okay. Pepsi zero. Pepsi zero. Because I'm a zero. Just kidding. Just kidding. I am special. I am special. I was born and the doctor said I was very special. Don't you forget it.  Come on. Come on. Don't touch the exhaust on the motorcycle. Okay. Well, if you can if you want to, but I guarantee you they'll only do it once. It should be kind of cool off or it's already been like 10 minutes.  Like I said before, I've been really enjoying all the sunshine this summer, but we do have to remember our farmers are struggling with their crops here right now. I don't know if we're officially in a drought. I would assume we are. Even our, our municipality here or our county has sent out a message telling people to conserve water. Wow. What is this, California? Please don't be California.


Γεια σας! Είμαι Βικη και καλώς ήρθω στο τελευταίο της ημέρα που εξηγήσαμε τον Λόν Φόμ. Σήμερα θα χρησιμοποιήσω το Φροστιφέρι Φραντς Σταμσέτ και υπάρχουν σκέψεις. Λοιπόν θα ξεκινήσω από να σκέψω κάποιες φορές αγαπημένες στον Σταμσέτ και θα σκέψω το σκέψι, ένα από τα λίγο φαρές, όπως εδώ και θα κάνω αυτή η καρδιά για να σκέψω σε ένα λίγο κερλ. Λοιπόν θα δούμε τι θα κάνω στον Σταμσέτ. Θα θα σκέψω όλα τα φορές αγαπημένες από να χρησιμοποιήσω το τοξιτο-βλακό εινγ. Και αυτό είναι γιατί θα χρησιμοποιήσω τα φορές αγαπημένες στον Σταμσέτ. Έχω σκέψει το λίγο φορές και κάποιες φορές που βλέπουν πολύ σκέψεις και μπορείς να τα σκέψεις πίσω στον σχέψι. Λοιπόν θα κλώσω το σκέψι και σκέψω όλα τα φορές. Και όλοι μπορείς να find a full list of all the supplies that I am using today down below the description area as well as on my blog. Λοιπόν placed my copy-markers, to color everything, and of course you can use your favorite coloring method. Τώρα wielaltung μου new WillieMayavesglu Pen to add some glue on the snow. Εnder this is where I am going to apply some of my Glimmerdust by Nuvo. Είμαι kind of obsessed with this one, it gives an amazing result when you see it up close and I am going to repeat the same process for the wings so that they are nice and shiny.  So I have everything cut out here, I'm going to pop out all my elements so that I can then go ahead and assemble my card.   I'm going to pass it through my physics machine, so I have a nice round mask and now I'm going to place on top a smaller die and this is going to give me a great moon shape.  So I'm going for a night sky today and I will use my go to colors for the night sky, but since I have that moon here, I want to have around the moon a nice lighter area. So you will see the colors now and I'm going to start by using a tumble glass around the moon. And then as I move outside of that area I'm going to darken more and more the background. So another one of my go to techniques is to use a little bit of jesso diluted with water and then with a thin brush I'm going to make some splashes. This can be a snow or stars and you can go crazy with the splashes, the more you add the better, just make sure that they are not too big. So now I'm ready for the big reveal, I'm going to remove the mask and the fact that the moon is white and not yellow makes it look even more brighter and shinier than it really is. So now I have created a snowbank using the same technique that I did for the rest of the snow and it's exactly the same technique that I used on yesterday's card. So I have covered it up with some glimmer dust by Nouveau and now at the back I'm going to add a little bit of foam tape and stick it at the bottom of my little scene. So this way I have a ground where I can stick the house on top. I'm going to use my scissors to cut out the excess and now I'm going to stick everything else that I have by using some tape at the back. So that I have a little bit of dimension. Now this tape that I am using is by Scotch and it's not too thick as you can see here which means that although I add a dimension to my cards they end up very bulky and you can easily mail them as they are.   So this is the fine tip, the Nouveau glue pen with the fine tip and then I am going to stick one by one all those stars. And here is the finished panel. I am going to stick that on top of a dark blue card that's 4.25 x 5.5. But first I'm going to stamp the sentiment on the inside of the card. So I am using my powder tool there just to make sure that the embossing powder is going to stick only where it's supposed to. I am applying some VersaMarking and I am stamping my sentiment. Now I am going to apply my white embossing powder. In the Frosty Fairy Friends stamp set by Lone Phone there are many little words that you can mix and match to create your own sentiment. So I went with Magical Christmas. I am going to use my heat gun to heat set everything.  This way when she opens the cards she gets a little treat. All those fairies she can use them to play and color. So I have created a little pocket by using one of my Simon Says Stamp dies. But you can use pretty much anything to create a little pocket on the inside of your card.  So I am using some strong adhesive to make sure that everything is nicely stuck there. And now at the back I am going to add even more glue and stick it just underneath the sentiment. And now that the pocket is in place I can fill in the pocket with my little fairies. And I think this is a really cute idea when you send cards to little kids because they will have the ability to play with the images that they see and love on the outside of your card. So I am going to add some foam tape at the back of this panel and I am going to stick it directly on top of my card base. And that was the Magical card for today. I hope you had fun and got inspired. And if you did, don't forget to leave me a comment as well as give me a thumbs up on my YouTube channel. Don't forget to visit me tomorrow for another card featuring loan foam stamps. Thank you all for watching.


Welcome everyone to the session, The Lazy Tester by Hannah Pretzwell. What do you, Hannah? Hey, hey everyone. Yeah, just want to say I'm really, I'm so excited to be here. It's really an honor to be like in this lineup and to be a part of this conference and this community. And I hope you've all had an absolutely fantastic day and seriously like well done to everyone who's spoken and who is going to be speaking like, yeah, you should all be very proud of yourselves. It's not easy. So well done. And yeah, welcome to my talk, The Lazy Tester. I'm Hannah. I'm a test engineer, technically not working at the moment actually I start a new job at a company called BGSS in a week's time. And it's my first new job in eight years. So I'm pretty nervous and excited so please wish me luck. I am the co-organizer for the Ministry of Testing branch here in Newcastle. I also help out with a North East based general tech meetup called any tech and a conference called the Geordie Tester Talier. I have way too many hobbies. I'm not going to go through them all though drawing is a big one which you will see as we go through the slides.  They just make me feel E and writing about me slides because I never know what to put on them. And I hate being bored. So you can probably guess that I can be pretty lazy sometimes because I find a lot of things boring, especially things like washing the dishes. So now quick disclaimer, I'm going to be taking you through a bit of a story in this talk and it is based on true events that did happen, but you know they have been edited and fictionalized slightly just to produce a more compelling story and also to just not bore you all with those details. Let's go. Once upon a time, there was a large financial institution who like to continuously push out new features in their applications to encourage new customers and to increase existing customer satisfaction. They had many, many different departments, all with many, many different projects, and within each of these projects were many, many teams, all with pretty standard team structure, and all those within a project were contributing to the same code base. On this particular project, around 20 teams were all interlaced in the spider web of dependencies and they had very strict deadlines to boot. One day, one of the testers came back from a wonderfully relaxing holiday, only to find that a production bug had been found and raised by a customer on Chromium on Linux. And it had already been agreed that browsers on Linux would be added to the list of browsers, operating systems and devices to be tested during feature, regression and sanity testing. She panicked. How is she ever going to find the time to test such a thing? The deadlines were strict, and especially with testers having to run already pretty painfully tedious regression suites every release. To her surprise, no one spoke up. It had been universally accepted that yes, somehow, time would be found to test on Linux. Well, she thought she could not be having that. I mean, for starters, there must have been a reason why Linux was not previously in scope for testing. And there was a reason. Multiple, in fact. One, pretty much no one used it. Two, everyone in the teams worked on Windows, so you'd need a VM or a remote machine to test. Three, they already tested supported browsers on Windows. And four, it had been agreed already within the browser support document that Linux users were responsible for their own support. She sprang to action and went on a journey to find out what has happened. She hunted down the testers, the architects and business people who would all agree to this and challenge them to an epic battle. It was really just a lot of tedious back and forth until there was an agreement that Linux would not need to be tested on. The whole experience was pretty frustrating. And it left me with quite a few questions. Why was it just assumed that testers would have time to take on the extra work alongside their already tightly packed schedules? And was there that little value placed on the work testers were doing that it's just assumed that they can easily take on more tasks without any question? And why did no one else speak up? Surely they aren't all happy to have this extra work fall on their plates. And to cap it off, after so many calls. It turned out that the Linux bug was actually reproducible in browsers across all operating systems. So, yay. And so, yes, weeks were lost arguing with people, even arguing with testers who were happy to be testing on Linux, which did baffle me. It's like, why do you want to do more work? And, yeah, all of that time spent just so that I wouldn't have to do an extra bit of work during my day to day life. The whole ordeal had me turning to my boyfriend exasperated and joking. I am so lazy that I will work hard to not have to do work. And the seed for this talk was planted. So what actually is laziness? Laziness is defined according to my intensive Google research as being unwilling to work or use energy. Now, I've spent my whole life being called lazy or calling myself lazy.  And when things pile up and cause stress, you just think, why am I so lazy? And it just got me thinking about the word lazy.  Is it really all down to the individual? When I was on the project in the story, I noticed something interesting when it came to time to run the manual regression suites. Other people could just get on and do it. Sure, they'd complain and they'd moan and grumble, but they just get on with the work. And I'd watch an amazement. You know, when I sat down to run the test scripts, I'd be hit with an almost physical pain in my brain and in my body, this ungodly ache in my soul that made me squirm and wriggle and honestly sometimes cry. And it would, it wouldn't be until the last second that I would actually be able to get on and do the work. When I was finally driven by enough fear and anxiety and adrenaline to overcome that pain. And I could just never understand how everyone else was able to deal with the pain. It made me feel so weak and terrible and lazy. Funny story though, not everyone has to deal with that pain. I remember turning to my coworker and asking him how he deals with the boredom pain and he was like, what pain? So it turns out, yeah, I got a diagnosis in the last year that I have ADHD, which explains quite a bit. And one of the symptoms of ADHD is something called executive dysfunction. So executive dysfunction can affect a lot of things in life, but some of the main problems that it causes that I think are related to this perceived laziness are. A struggle to get started on tasks, even if you enjoy them, and it can be so much worse for tasks that you don't enjoy. There's a struggle to stay focused on tasks, you get distracted easily. And there's a struggle as well to follow instructions. And this is a really good reason actually to get computers to run complex, boring, or repetitive test scripts. That computers are so much better at following instructions than humans are, you know. And also it frees up humans to use the most valuable tool at our disposal, our brains. But if someone from the outside is observing these behaviors, they'd likely just brand that as lazy. Oh, they're procrastinating. Oh, they're on the phone again instead of working. Oh, they they skip that step in the instructions are obviously not paying attention. But we can see here that laziness isn't a cause. It's a symptom. It's often a mix of brain chemistry and environment. Try and get someone who struggles with executive dysfunction to do a boring task and you are going to have a bad time. And it's not just people with ADHD that can struggle with executive dysfunction. It can also crop up with other neurodevelopmental conditions like autism or mental health conditions like anxiety, depression and chronic stress. We should be striving to create not only a more inclusive workplace and not just for people who are neurodivergent, but a better workplace for everyone. I mean, who wants to do things that they don't want to do. So I think we're all familiar with the term burnout. It's been a firm part of our vocabulary for quite a while now. But for our, however, it's a relatively new new term. And it was first coined in 2007 by Peter Verde and Phillip Rothland. And I only came across this term when I was actually researching what I wanted to talk about in this talk. And by the definition that Peter Verde and Phillip Rothland give its clusters feeling boredom, feeling a lack of challenges, a lack of professional interest in the workplace. So according to their definition, boredom is as we understand it to be, you know, got nothing to do, or you've got dull, meaningless, repetitive tasks. A lack of challenges is when someone feels that the tasks that they are doing are below their abilities. And the lack of professional interest is seen when people experience a loss of interest in their job, their company, or even their career. And it's a cousin to burnout, potentially just as dangerous, but in its own sneaky ways. You can literally be bored to death. People who experience frequent boredom are more likely to suffer from heart problems and are more likely to take part in unhealthy behaviors such as lack of exercise or increased alcohol consumption. There's also a lot of shame, anxiety and depression and mental health issues that are associated with burnout. You know, it's generally culturally accepted that it's okay to be stressed out if you are busy and you're overworked. But if you complain about being bored, it's often met with a, oh, I wish I had that job. And this attitude can lead to a feeling of shame, you know, that you should be happy with a job like this. And it can lead to less motivation to ask for help. Anxiety can often come from worries about job security. If you're finding aspects of your job meaningless, surely that means someone will find out that your job is pointless and let you go, which, you know, it's not going to happen. But it does make it difficult to ask for help in those situations and it can spiral this feeling of being trapped and this feeling of helplessness. And suffering from bore out, just like with burnout, can have massive impacts on your mental health and your self-esteem. And it can even impact your career in general. You may end up not wanting to apply for new jobs because you've been worn down from hours of boredom and feeling like your role on you are not valuable or not good enough. And it's not just bad for you. Employers should take notice. As studies have shown that happier workers are more productive workers and unhappier employees does lead to higher turnover. I think it's good for everyone really, you know, try and take notice of the day-to-day tasks and routines that might be leading towards feelings of bore out and burnout. And I do have to say that I realized that I related to a lot of what I was reading about bore out, especially over the past few years. There was a lot of factors to this. And especially with one of the projects that I was really struggling with. Combined, you know, with basically working, living, sleeping, eating, all in one room, like I barely left that one room. And it really did start to take a toll. So now I'm trying to, you know, take steps to recognize where I'm starting to see, you know, these feelings of burnout and bore out in my personal life as well as my work life. So starting to identify places either currently or from past experience where I can see behaviors that I think have a high risk of bore out. I've all heard of the story, right? I think that this fable quite easily helps describe how I feel about the way that a lot of projects, teams and people do end up working. So just a quick recap, you know, got the tortoise and we've got the hare. They're having a race against each other, you know, everyone thinks that the, that the hare is going to win because obviously it's faster tortoises are quite slow. But actually, the hare ends up taking a nap somewhere. And the tortoise just plots along and its own steady pace and wins. And I think most of us would like to strive to be the tortoise. It's a steady, keeping up consistency. He plotted along and obviously winning. And you know, you just know that you've worked hard, but it's been, it's been nice and stable, rather than getting towards the end of something and having a panic and a rush to get something over the finish line. And I do think it's easier to apply the tortoise way of working to our private lives and our personal projects, when it's just you that you need to hold accountable. They're saying that I am pretty bad at slow and steady and very much leave it to the last second and then panic, but I'm trying and working on it. So a few of the things that I've observed over the years and I'm talking to people is that you tend to find that projects and teams fall into the same kinds of pitfalls. And they can be really hard to get out of once you're in. Often in the rush to get something out and customer facing things like testing, get left behind in the dust. And the project can suffer because of it. You're probably aware of, you know, instead of spending more time now for the long term benefit, we see things get pushed aside for short term gain. And this can often lead to higher expectations from team members, external stakeholders and even from yourself. And it can trap you in a cycle where if you ask them all resources or more time, there can be a lot of pushback because, well, you did it last time. The quality or any other standard is starting to drop. And some things that I have seen that I think are real red flags that what you're doing is headed down this path stuff like not fixing bugs. So often bugs deemed as low priority, especially if they are small, small UI issues can just get left in the backlog. It starts off as just a handful, fine, yeah, fine, whatever, but eventually they can build up and you end up with a much lower quality product. First impressions do matter after all. And the majority of the time, the first way a user interacts with the platform is via site. And then it has the added knock on effect of becoming harder and harder to track what's already been raised. And you can end up with a big mess of duplicates and people wasting time raising bugs that are already known and logged or wasting time having to search through everything to see if see, you know, that bug has already been written up. Or you end up with people not logging bugs because they just assume it's already been caught. Another one is not automating repetitive tasks. So I'm not suggesting that we automate everything. I am a big fan of finding balance with these things. I also don't just mean automating just sweets and just front end UI and things like that. I mean like automate any boring tasks that that you can. And to give an example of this. I was once set the task of testing installing upgrades for a desktop application. It had to be done for every new production build of the software and it had to be done on windows and on Mac. So we have some repetition there. And yeah, that to be done a couple of times a month. And it was it was tedious. Lots of uninstalling reinstalling updating uninstall reinstall all these and checking versions as well. And just doing this over and over again for different scenarios. And I ended up like reaching out to a developer just been like please help me please help me because this, you know, it feels like hell on earth having to go through these. And he helped me write some bash scripts to automate the majority of the process. I still had to go in manually and check that the that the versions were correct. But most of the stuff leading up to that point, I managed to use these scripts to just run for me. It did take some time and effort upfront, but it saved time and my sanity every single time that I had to do this task. Another one, and this is a big bug bear of mine actually is is not prioritizing fixing or creating things like test tools. And the main one that I see has a big impact is neglecting test environments. I've seen this on so many projects where test environments are slow, or they're flaky, or they have incorrect or missing data and you can end up spending more time battling with environments than actually testing. Like how many of you have spent ages trying to hunt down a bug, just to realize it was the environment. I've even seen bugs get on to production, because the environment had issues. And there was an error that would appear in a certain scenario every single time it happened the years and, you know, every time you brought it up with the others, that's the environment, which is true. Until it wasn't. And by being more like the tortoise and taking time to do stuff now, rather than constantly pushing it back to later and provide many, many benefits. It allows us to slow down and it gives us time. You get time to think and time to really analyze everything that you're doing. I had a really good question posed at me recently, which was how much testing is too much. And I was like, hmm, this is a question that comes up quite a lot, you know, we discuss a lot that conferences at meetups and Technically, you know, you are never done with testing since you're never going to find all the bugs, especially in some of the insane complex software that we tend to be working on. So how do we decide what to focus our testing efforts on. I think the important thing here is that you need to have the time to really critically analyze what is in front of you. We often do risk analysis when deciding when to spend where to spend the most time testing. So, you know, we focus on areas that have, say critical business logic, or, or the areas that are used the most or using past knowledge of spots for bugs can really help narrow down how much, you know, how much you need to do where you need to where you need to test and just where you need to get to to be able to say, okay, enough is enough. And the problem is, when you don't have that time when you are rushing through life, that sort of stepping back and thinking and analyzing can get thrown out of the window. And what you end up with is almost mindlessly testing just a bit of everything. And you end up not taking the time to make improvements that can help with process, either by speeding things up or reducing mental load. And I've been in situations like this in the past and I'd be surprised if anyone hadn't and my quality of work and my view of myself suffered. So I think it's really critical to be given the time to get a clear head and to question why, why are we doing something. And this all ties back into the story that I told before. So we take a look at it the, the environment, the environment that we saw was very, very complex team, very complex project structures and a complex platform. And because of this complexity, it was so easy to change something in one place and break something in a completely different unexpected area. And there were also very tight deadlines. No, it was very much like a go, go, go, go tight place and it never felt like you could just stop and breathe.  I think that that really contributed to that situation of, oh no, oh no, bug, bug scene on Linux and proud. We don't test on Linux. We have to test on Linux. And once that train started going, it was so hard, you know, not an impossible to slam on the brakes and go like, whoa, whoa, stop. Are you sure? Are you sure that's what you want to be doing? And I do have to admit here that when I launched into my no testing on Linux fight, I was not thinking, oh, we, okay, we need to slow down and we need to consider this. My thought process was just as panicky and just as frantic. I was just filled with such utter dread at the thought of doing this extra work, whilst knowing that there wasn't that, like, there wasn't any value in spending the time, the extra time testing on Linux, since we already tested Chrome on Windows. But looking back, you know, if I was thinking about it properly, I would or should have approached it using some of the ideas that I mentioned on the last slide. I was questioning the severity of the bug. Why it wasn't found earlier. And whether instead of testing on Linux, maybe we should be looking at that area of the application and wondering figuring out if it gets enough care. But that's how we learn if we have time to reflect. And this is why making the time for things like retrospectives is so important. I feel like I couldn't really have a talk about slowing down and creating more time and without mentioning retrospectives. And this could be retrospectives as a team. You know, going over the last sprint and thinking, okay, how, how did we feel? Did we achieve what we wanted? What would we change? And also having the safety to be able to say, my work is too boring, I'm not challenged enough to repetitive and figuring out as a team how this can be rectified. But I know that safety is difficult to achieve. But the more that we can talk about it, the more that we can change and don't even have to do retrospectives on a team level, we could do them as individuals as well. I was talking to a friend of mine recently who was saying that they take half an hour each week to just reflect on the past week and think about what they achieved, what they didn't achieve, what went well, what went wrong, how they felt, and what circumstances might have contributed to all of that. And then, you know, considering the future, considering the next week, what could they change? What did they want to remove? What did they want to improve on? And I think this is a really, really good idea. And I'm hoping to implement it when I move on to my next role. I'm very excited. But we can only really do that if we have time to do it. And that's what this all really boils down to. It's time. It's about minimizing the amount of boring tasks and the tasks that we perceive as lower value or repetitive. And taking back that time and using it to focus on the areas of our day-to-day roles that we really value, the bits that we really enjoy, and the bits that we think improve ourselves, our teams, and our work. So, my final message is, be more lazy.  And analyze whether these tasks can be automated or removed and really look into what value they bring to your day-to-day life and to your project, to your team, and to you. I'm trying to minimize the boring stuff so that I have more time, you know, not just for drinking tea or boring pictures. It gives me more time to focus on the parts of my job that I really enjoy, you know, the fun problem-solving challenges and getting into that creative mindset and learning new things. It's being able to really get my brain engaged that keeps me thriving and excited for whatever is coming in the future. And yes, we do all have aspects of our day-to-day that are boring and monotonous. You know, I'm one of those people that terrible at filling in time sheets. I always put it off or I forget it and, you know, we can't avoid all of it. There's always going to be something that we need to do that we don't want to do. But the more of it that we can minimize, just like buying a dishwasher to help with the dishes, the more that we can spend on the stuff that really, really counts. So, be more lazy. Take the lazy way and do more of what you love. Thank you, everyone, for the listening. Is there any questions? Thank you. There are some questions in the Q&A. Sorry, I think I don't know if my sound's gone down, but you're quite quiet for me. Please repeat that. So there are some questions coming in the Q&A section. Ah, great. Fantastic. Ah, here it is. Let me have a look. Okay, let's have a read. So Noresh asked, when we are busy doing busy work, it is a slippery slope. I understand that we need to take time to create time. What clues can we use to stop us before it is too late? Oh, that is a difficult one. I guess it depends on what you mean by busy work. If you mean the kind of work that you don't think has much value, but you're doing it just to keep busy, then I think that that is a clue that you are already on that kind of slippery slope. It is really, really looking at what you think is valuable and whether it's worth you spending your time on that thing. And if you mean just you've got a lot of stuff going on and you feel like you don't have time to actually step back. I think for me, and this is, again, this is all pretty difficult to do. You need to have a good team, a team that you can trust, and I think a team that is very invested in all aspects of development. You know, you want a team that is invested in testing as well. And I think it's being able to go to them and say, you know, I do not have time to step back and kind of take a bigger picture of you of what we're doing. So, you know, I need help to do that, you know, if someone can come in and help me, or we need to push back a little bit on a deadline, or we need to, you know, stop putting in so many features and just kind of take a little take a little pause, take a little step back. I hope that helps. I've got another question here, which is from. Kira Bakaran. Sorry, I feel like I just pictured that, but so good evening. How to manage when our plan doesn't work. Sometimes our plan might not work. So is that okay, not to keep planning. Not quite sure what you sort of mean by that. I guess if a plan kind of doesn't go to plan.  When you come to the retrospective, you, you say, you know, we either have or we haven't hit what we wanted. So we need to review kind of what we're doing. I hope that answers the next one from Guarov. Love the presentation in the graphics. Thank you very much. Any thoughts on how you create this psychologically safe space for your team to be to be lazy. So this is, yeah, this is a question that I don't know if I can really answer. I relatively recently, I say relatively recently, I think it was like two years ago. I wrote a book called the five dysfunctions of a team. And one of the dysfunctions is not being able to, to, like, not feeling safe and not being able to bring up issues. And really, it's a team effort. And I think that that should be sort of championed from like a scrum master or someone, because, you know, they are, they are the people who are almost responsible for the team kind of working together well. But in terms of creating a psychologically safe space, I think it is just having, you know, from like from yourself, it's having the confidence to bring up something to say when you're not happy. And then waiting to see what the reaction is if people react in a bad way that makes you feel unsafe, then maybe this actually isn't a good team for you. But if they react in a way that makes you feel safe and they respond positively. Then, you know, that's good and you can kind of, you can go forwards with that. And I think a lot of it is being able to bring up constructive criticism as well. And I very much recommend the book, five dysfunctions of a team. It's fantastic. So I think next, next question from Charlie, I think if there is any ask for automating test cases which are not used by anyone, what will be your call on that. I mean, sort of test cases is in that area of the software is not used by customers, then I feel like testing that area would be redundant as we'll be working on that area as well. It feels like maybe it should just be kind of scrapped. If the test cases are not run by anyone like manually run by anyone, then I guess question why, you know, I guess if they're not being ran them must not be value or perceived value in those cases. And so automating them is probably just wasting your time if they don't have value already. Thank you. And thank you for all your really nice comments. And thank you for watching. I really enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing your experience with us today.


Sir, how do you know that the person you are with is the right person to you? Oh! Popular, eh? It once happened, Shankaran Pillai was at the family dinner and when everybody settled down for dinner, he stood up at the table and announced, I am going to marry Lucy who is just across the street. I hope that's not the name. Then the father said, What? You going to marry Lucy? She has nothing. She's like a tramp. You going to marry that Lucy? Mother said, What? You going to marry that Lucy? The uncle, uncles always pitch in in this kind of matters, you know. Uncle said, What? You going to marry that Lucy? Have you seen her hair? It looks fake. The aunt, What? You going to marry Lucy? She's always painted. You going to marry the painted woman? The little boy, the nephew can't be left out. He said, You going to marry Lucy? She doesn't even know what is cricket. How can you marry her? Shankaran Pillai stood his ground and said, Yes, I am going to marry Lucy. Everybody asked in one voice, Why? He said, Because she has no family. There are no many opinions to battle with. So, who is the right person? I don't want to take away all the romance from your life. But, let me tell you this, there is no right person on this planet. If you put your heart into something, something may become wonderful. Is it the right thing? There is no right thing. Nobody ever found the right person anywhere, okay? If you get into that kind of unrealistic mindset, I have found the right person. Oh, you will be soon disappointed. You must understand, there is no right person. First thing is to see whether I am the right person. Yes, I am either right person and there are no right people on this planet.  They can adjust nonsense to nonsense. Go on. We must understand, relationships are formed for various needs. There are physical needs, there are psychological needs, there are emotional needs, there may be social needs, there may be financial needs, various kinds of needs. So, when you are going to somebody with so many needs, you are going as a beggar and a beggar cannot choose. Bigger is what comes its way, isn't it? He cannot choose. So, if you really want to make a choice in this world, first and foremost thing is, you bring yourself to your place where your experience of life is just pleasant by yourself. You are wonderful. Now, let us see what gets drawn to this one. If you are really wonderful, things will happen in every way, I am saying. In terms of career, in terms of marriage, in terms of relationships, the best will happen to you because you met yourself like this. Instead of trying to work on somebody and fix them, if you work upon yourself and make you so wonderful that everybody wants to be with you, then there is a choice.  God made just one more person just for you, but these days every two years he keeps making one more person just for you. Obviously, God is making too many mistakes with you. See, body needs a mate, understandable. Maybe psychologically also you need a mate, understandable. Emotionally you need a mate, a soul cannot need a mate, so soul doesn't need a mate, nor was some person made perfectly for you. Okay? This creation makes all kinds of unique idiots.  If you think you're perfect and God has chosen you and he's made another person perfect somewhere else, you're heading for a disaster, okay? There is no such thing. Even you know people today after five thousand years, people are still audulating and worshipping Krishna as the greatest lover, but his wife's are dead unhappy with the guy. Yes. So you're not going to find any perfect person. If you invest a deep sense of involvement, something wonderful may happen because of your involvement, not because other person is fantastic. No. Even if you choose a fool, actually it's easy that way.  No, no, no, I'm just being nasty. So even if you choose a fool, it doesn't matter. If you involve yourself, it can turn out very beautiful. You chose the smartest person in the universe, it could be a disaster. So do not think in terms of, you know, whatever this made for each other nonsense. No. You choose the opposite actually.  This is a serious mistake because if one more person becomes just like you, you won't be able to bear with them for two days. Hello? Please tell me. If there's one more person just like you at home, could you live there? You're glad they're different. It's wonderful. Nobody is like you, isn't it?  Try and see. Nobody is like you. And that's good. Don't look for sameness. Not necessary. It's a difference which makes the... because the difference you tango, not otherwise.